The man that knows how to sharpen anything isn’t going to do Square filing, who wants to make a bet that Killinger will be Square filing his chains within a year?🤣🤣🤣
Like a hot knife through butter and with the lightweight 32inch bar. I believe you have made a new friend. Also I don't think I heard any shooting at your neighbors you must of help him with that pesky squirrel. Nice video. Be blessed my friend.
Square filing is jus like round filing in the sense of it to is a technique that has to be learned as round had to be learned as well. Jus like most anything practice makes perfect lol. Have a good week my friend!!
Cheers for the vid, cool to see a test of how it goes. I wonder if it will go as an OK ripping chain, say for freehand milling or ripping out fence posts. Might leave a smoother board than a round chain
I haven’t seen it in my local shops yet, but I haven’t been I awhile…..guess I’ll hit some tomorrow. I would like to try it out. Nice video Chris 👍👏🪵⛓🪚🇺🇸 Rick
@@KillingerUSA hey Chris, if you haven’t already done it, don’t forget to turn your oiler up to max and drive the pin for that extra 1/4 turn, you need it for that size bar. 👍
@@KillingerUSA understand, I run the 28” on mine and it just barely does enough in my opinion, I can’t imagine it handling a 32” as far as oil. A lot of folks don’t realize you can drive the ion next to the oil adjuster and get a bit more out of it. I figured you probably already knew, but just wanted to ask, to be sure 👍
I like all brands of chain and have had good luck with good old fashioned round file chain. Husqvarna, Oregon and Stihl have a great chain. Is the Stihl Hexa elusively for pro saws with bigger bars or could my neighbor who has a MS 311 farm saw, purchase one for his 20 inch bar for the sake of conservation?
Stihl chain has always seemed harder than anything else, and when I've ran Stihl brand pro (yellow) chain, the only files that it didn't destroy have been Sthil files. Other people have told me that Pferd fikes are another alternative, but since I found them to be, more or less the same money, I just always stuck with the Sthil fikes and gotten good results. I never learned to square file either, though I wanted to learn. Sometimes, life has other plans for us. I for one, am glad you just went ahead and dropped the vid now, Chris. And yes, often the US lags behind in the "New Sthil Product Availability" department, which is sort of strange, but also, the US can be sort of hard to deal with where satisfying the "safety experts" and regulatory so on and such-n-such thing-a-ma-bobber jobber goes, so . . . there's always that. Where many things go, I, much like you, am inined to ask myself, "how important is it," - and if ot's not more important than other things that havent been gotten after, then it goes on the, "Maybe some day I'll do/try, IF I have nothing else to do and I'm bored," list. 👍 Send the family my love, pal. It's good to see you're KEEPING the homefires burning! Speaking of burning, I haven't gotten those pepper seeds off to you yet, as I have not been feeling real good, and it's been winter anyhow, but I haven't forgotten, and will get some to you in plenty of time to get some going and well established for early spring planting in your family's garden. Trust me, I have WAY more seed than I need for my own purposes . . . at least, until I have more room to plant MY victory garden! One day, if it be God's will, I'll have a bit more space to do what I'd love on a more meaningful scale. Until then, "Run what you brung" is sort of my approach in life! Stay healthy, pal. I hope you're able to get some cows soon, but, time takes time, so no need to rush, eh?
Everything seems to work out in time. I suspect cows will have to wait at least another year. I want to finish other projects here including establishing my garden before I get cows. But I'll keep chipping away at my todo list. Before you know it, you will see cows on my homestead! Take care!
Looks good thanks for Vid. We'll see though. Like all videos from countries outside Australia, particularly Pines, Oaks and Walnuts in US Videos. That's stuff must be butter compared to our Iron Barks and Bloodwoods. I see you guys lifting logs by yourself or kicking over timber, we'd have to go and get 3 other mates to lift half the size or turn her over with a winch. Certainly when we take tourists camping and collect firewood, particularly Europeans, they're shocked at the density and weight of our timber. It's why most old blokes in Australia don't trust Husqvarna, because the stuff is engineered for ice-cream popsicles, all they have is matchstick pine. We seem to spend and awful lot of time sharpening our chains, after every cut, whereas videos from US and Sweden, seem to cut all day. We're sharpening per log if in bad dry country and if we cut dead Ironbark, or dead Bloodwoods, any old Eucalypts or Gums, it's after every 4th cut, let alone log or tree. So, I'm thinking of having a crack at the Hex on a 500i. Be nice if cut as quickly and effortlessly as that blue cheese you just cut up for crackers. Shame about needing all new sharpeners though. For that reason, I'm concerned. When we're out bush, roads are cut and trees are down. It's nice to know, most blokes who rock up, will have the same gear most likely in their vehicle. If you're all blunt, broken or need to share files. No doubt, with Hexa one might be a stand alone newbie for a while, all flash and fancy; old fellas stroking their beards, saying "I dunno mate, looks kinda weird to me"..
