Thanks for the video Mr Flagg. I'm still a novice at filing chain but I am getting a bit better each time with it. One thing I noticed that no one seems to mention that if you aren't holding the file even with the chain (see-sawing) or the angle is wrong the file seems to chatter and doesn't sound right, doesn't file smoothly through the stroke. It's helped me correct my technique quite a bit. Take care.
Awesome video. I would add that once you get older and cant grip a file because it feels like electricity going through your hands, swallow your pride and get a hand held grinder. Not as good as a file but you can still cut wood.
I find I become lazy during hand sharpening, especially on a long chain. I will use the Timberline sharpener with the carbide cutters if I need to true up a chain. It‘s like sharpening pencils and even though I may fatigue it is still consistent. 👍
Another good Richard Flagg Video! This is a subject that causes a lot of consternation with folk. There is no shortage of videos, and opinions on sharpening chains. I believe You covered it well. @ 03:52 Yep, down and into the tooth, create that ‘gullet!’ @ 09:24 good point! I will put my saw into my vise, and I made a special support for it, and mark my starting point with a Sharpie and go through one set of teeth, and then flip the saw around, and finish the other cutters, finishing with checking the depth gauges. I sometimes even manage to get a decent chain! It’s both art and a science, and requires patience, persistence, concentration and a rhythm. Stay safe! 👍💪🇺🇸😊
Any info on the progressive raker gauges offered by Stihl and Husky? Another RU-vidr recommends them but didn't show enough detail of actual use. The idea being that as the tooth wears with use and filing, the rakers need to get lower than when a chain is new. Great how you showed rounding the back of the rakers to keep them from catching.
Will have to say that you explained this as good as anyone could. I've been in the woods and sharpening chains for over forty years and you have really done a great job explaining how it's done. There is no better way to sharpen a chain than by hand. Very good presentation... the only thing I would say that may help you when filling the left side if you're right handed, is to position yourself right on top of the chainsaw. With your chest resting on the chainsaw. Understandable that everyone has their own techniques. All that matters is that in the end, the chain and rakers are filed properly. Good work!
Great video !!been hand filing for 7 years now with no guides or gadgets, I tried lots of them in the beginning but the best way is to just learn free hand you can do it way faster and profile the tooth precisely how you want it just takes some practice, I have used a grinder for years here and there and they cut good but it’s not the same as a nice round filed job on my Aussie hard wood, how do you compare your chains done with grinder compared to a file?? cause I can see you know how to file a chain
One of my buddies is so danged right handed and right eye domminate that one side of his chian was perfection and the other all cattywampus. Rainbow cutter! Until he watched Cottontop3 one day a year or more ago where Cotton did the domminate side first then flipped the saw up-side down in the vice; at which point that second side was also set up for the domminate access. His was may not cut real fast, but at least half fast.
Great video !!been hand filing for 7 years now with no guides or gadgets, I tried lots of them in the beginning but the best way is to just learn free hand you can do it way faster and profile the tooth precisely how you want it just takes some practice, I have used a grinder for years here and there and they cut good but it’s not the same as a nice round filed job on my Aussie hard wood, how do you compare your chains done with grinder compared to a file?? cause I can see you know how to file a chain
