How To Sharpen Hedge Trimmer Blades, Beginners Guide. STIHL HS56 

A great video, concise, well explained and good photography, many thanks for posting 🙂👍

Great video! From an old (retired) diesel engine manufacturing apprentice.

Far and away the best video showing the full procedure! Thanks!

A 70/30 mix of methylated spirits / water in a spray bottle is a really cheap & effective way to dissolve the sap & gunk (the water stops the meths evaporating too quickly) so you can wipe it off. I favour the Dremel or stones as a angle grinder can make a real mess of the blade in a flash if you’re not careful.

Impressively thorough and clear. Thanks!

Thats a art in itself,nicely done, i give mine a scrub with water first,gets the sap off.

Great video! I always use a Dremel, but I can believe it goes a lot faster with a grinder.

Good advice with different options

Thanks for the awesome video !!! It will definitely be a great winter project as well.

Yeah man got to take it real easy on those ones where the wheel is spinning up into the teeth. It can grab real hard on the flappy disk sanders. I just did my 24in cutters and il tell you it took hrs with a damn file and im really good at it but the time it took. Yeah im looking to use the disk sanding wheel on a small angle airtool. Thanks for the video. I used penatrating fluid and a wire brush then a wire cup on my angle grinder.

Just ordered some stones for the dremel, picked up some grease from screwfix today and have a new Bosch battery arriving tomorrow for my long reach cutters but i'm going to use your razor/stanley blade method this time around when i maintain the cutter blades. Great thorough video and appreciate your upload and tips here. Great job by the way and many thanks.

An education. As always. 👍

finally a video that talks about leaving burrs on on the back of the blade. What grit is the sanding stone you use?

Best sharpening video on youtube m8

Great Video mate.👍

Cheers I use a powerfile sander works a dream

Done ready to go 👍🏾

Great thanks Brilliant report Loads of tips.

Great how to video!

Mine always seem dull still after dremal. Time to take it apart. Im always worried its not going to put back together right lol

Good Tool 🍻

A Dremel with a wand is the best way to get a better result with a cutting blade on it as a grinder.

where did you get the orange protective thing ontop of the blade? thats a great little safety feature!

Useful video! How do you go about using the angle grinder when not taking the blades off?

An ultrasonic bath with a mild detergent works ok

can the bottom piece be flipped to makebuo for being worn down or will you still have to much space away from the cutting blade??

Great video sir. What are the specs of the flap disc, please. They are different. Where did you buy it.. link if possible..or similar if not. Cheers.

What disc is on the angle grinder? top vid I use an angle grinder bladed installed but got tip on clean faces I must do it properly outta season lol

Not quite as heavily engineered compared to the hs82 . How much does it usually cost to have blades sharpened ? Thank you

A high grit flap disk makes this a 20 min job...

Doesn't anyone use a hand file anymore?😅

If I wanted to read how to do it I'd be on a freaking search engine

Wire brush 5 inch grinder for the clean and then I use 3 mm thick cutting disc and gently sharpen I’m an ex trady so it’s all fine for me but for those that haven’t used grinders before. Don’t use this method as the disc can explode spinning at 5k

The gearbox box clean should have been done before replacing blades and fresh grease on all parts really let you done that part Sir . Well done for doing your own service engine degreaser on blades works well and is cheap dry then oil blades in the open position after each use .