The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 04/05/2021 21:29, Andy Burns wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

So far I've gone the three chains for £24 route, and only managed to
dull one.

I find that you need to sharpen about every hour, and it takes about
ten minutes, and the file lasts about a chainsaw week at best.

Electric sharpeners mean you have to take the sodding chain off and
that takes even longer...

The dremel one looks like you can sharpen while leaving the chain on,
but swapping chains is tool-less and quick on mine, so resharpening at
home in downtime might be better ...

I do chainsawing for about 3-4 hours at a time - and I need to sharpen
several times in that period. And usually retension the chain at least
once too.

Really!? What are you cutting? I've never needed to sharpen anything
like that frequently even when doing some fairly serious felling and
clearing that took several hours.

Are you allowing dirt and grit anywhere near, that blunts chains very
quickly.

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Chris Green
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