On 05/05/2021 09:05, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 04/05/2021 22:43, AJH wrote:
On 04/05/2021 21:16, newshound wrote:
The first choice electric one seems to be cutting square to the
chain, which is wrong.


It could well be wrong but chains sharpened for ripping can be square.

who uses a chainsaw to only rip?




Quite a few people run saws as miniature mills, sometimes with two saw
heads. They tend to specialise in "character" timbers which would
otherwise be uneconomic to extract and sell

https://youtu.be/WNcTLMPd6ao

It amuses me because they value the defects all the big mills I used to
supply would reject.

There is an upsurge in small scale milling, often with
lightweight,portable bandsaws and dimension saws with the likes of
Lucas, Woodmiser Woodlands mills simply because most of the home grown
sawmills have stopped trading since GATT made the economics bad and
their "previously developed" sites became attractive for housing.