thought you were gonna tell us you found a sharpening stone laying in the dirt under the tree!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 J/K brother! You always come up with some good tips man! Saw safe!
very nice field sharpening! I've switched to just dragging handfuls of chain around with me anytime I cut, when dull just throw a sharp one on and then late at night when the kids are sleeping i go through piles of dull ones and fix em up nice and pretty with the grinder rig Definitely a great way to get you out of in a pinch though and thanks for not making me nag you about not wearing your chaps Thank you for all the great videos!
@IndianaDoug you and me both last summer I was doing those wraparound chaps with just plain shorts underneath, it definitely helped with the heat but the straps rubbed on the back of my legs. The thought of wearing pants in that thick humidity and heat while I'm out cutting stuff definitely doesn't sound like fun. Thinking of taking an old pair of chaps and sewing some sort of mesh non chafing material to the back of them so I could wear them with shorts and still get some airflow
Cutting road side I know all too well rocks, barb wire, fence post, trash, liquor bottles and car parts lol 😆. Cutting along dirt roads is the worst because the bark has years of dust grown into it so it’s like cutting 60 grit sandpaper. Also looks like it might be time to think about changing your sprocket. That chain has a fierce burr starting on drivers
Chinese saw, sprocket, bar, and chain. What’s the worse that can happen? Jokes aside, I’ve put that little saw through 10 kinds of hell. You’re right I need to change out a few parts. Going to change it all to a .325 setup. I don’t mind 3/8 lp on toppers, but anything else below a 50cc has .325 except this 543 clone.
Palm trees on the coast are terrible on chains too, sand and salt embedded in them and they are like a big bundle of fibers, not anything like wood. The dead ones are like cutting wet rope, they dont dry out like a normal tree, and they STINK!!
Right on man. I have had it where the big file doesn't quite want to fit immediately. I know, I called it a "big" file. I think of them as S M and L. Good video sir
Doug, I’ve been known to use that same trick for 3/8 full-size chain, but that’s when I used 1/4 or 5/16 files. 1/4 works best for me if I ever have to do that stuff twice.
DOUG 🧬 I’ve been running a lot of that NT chain FT seems a little harder but file work is easier on the NT. I’ve come to relize it’s the same amount of time spent doing file work on both. Hope your well brutha
@@IndianaDoug potentially the same make. Yet one is much harder. Potentially showing the brand has say in what they get from China NOW compared to 5 years ago. We used to call that quality control here. One is definitely harder then the other.
@ScrewdriverTUNING yessir. I use both FT and NT chain, and overall they do surprisingly well. I just got a breaker and spinner, so I’ll be getting rolls and make my own now. I just hope it’s the good stuff.
@@IndianaDoug I'm not sure what came on your 543 (some 3/8 lp) but the nt that came on mine sucked big time. The drivers didn't go down into the sprocket holes (or the holes were too small) and the chain would go tight/loose as it went around. And, the bar sprocket was a little out of wack too. The little saw is pretty ok though. That Brisco ported one is a little ripper.
Uh oh! Dont you dare put out a short showing you taking the tooth all the way back! EVERYONE will say you are wasting the chain. You know, so many of the 4 swipes and your "good" people
Well, I never thought about that, so thanks for sharing. I just put another chain on these days, and take the rocked chains to the grinder. It used to take me forever to fix rocked chains with a file though. You should also show how you got your little C83 beak (I think you used that flat file ... heh heh). Also, it looked pretty flat under the beak with an almost vertical gullett. Do you come back with the little round file and bring that gullett material out? I think someone showed a nasty beak, with the gullet hogged way out, and that sucker cut mean. I haven't tried any of those tricks yet ... but will this summer.
Is the trick not using the chain to intentionally cut rocks and nails? I keep trying to teach that one to folks around here but they aint buyin what i'm sellin
I use a 7/32 or 3/16 in a pinch. Like they out of 11/64 or my 7/32go to. I can get by wit a 3/16 if i remember 2 watch my filing more close i can still do good well good enough 2 get by lol.
