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This is a great sharpener made for Stihl by Pferd of Germany. The blue ones that don't say Stihl are the same, but quite a bit cheaper.

Pferd

I meant there were very few old hands in the logging industry, and if they were they were guys you wanted to listen to. I missed the Vito reference......

Nice!

My wild guess is that you're sharpening way more chains than the guy using a $2 file?

Spotshooter 2n1 = like !

I got 38 stitches in my left thigh, that says you are right. Stihl 039
What a bloody mess. Ruined my pants too.

I paid the same for the Stihl brand as the blue one in your post at my local dealer.

It works great, easy and fast.

The power sharpeners are fine for the guy cutting firewood next to his house, or the cutter who uses his saw less than 4 hours a year. The downside is once you use them on your chain you have to keep using them. A file will give you way more life in your chain and easier to touch up every time you fill up.

Interesting point as to the original post. I'll stick with the little plate to slap on and file them down but good to know!

simonkenton7:
Good afternoon to you sir, I hope the day is a fine one in your part of the planet and that all in your world are well.

I'm sorry to read of your chainsaw incident and hope too that you've healed completely.

After running power saws for personal use over the last 4 decades, never once did I come close to biting myself.... until I did...

My good wife and daughters felt it'd be not a bad idea for me to invest in some chaps or pants and then as I did some research - some of which was chatting with our fellow forum member 673 who makes his living with a chainsaw, I picked up a pair of lightly used Big K Clothing Logger King 4100 Threshold pants.

They're as tough as they are hot!

Anyways all that to say that PPE isn't a bad idea at any age, but as we age it's likely even a better idea.

All the best to you and all our fellow chainsaw users.

Dwayne

McCulloch 125 Super Pro

I went with a chains sharpener a month ago. I had several that were in bad shape and really needed a good grinding. It looks just like the one in the 1st post. It was $315 and a bit too much. I hardly take anything off of the chisel blade and they are very sharp. I did notice that I have to be carefull not to get the blade too hot. It can turn it a blueish color and I think that could effect the steels hardness, so I just go slow and real light. It takes about 10 min. and I will hand file if I can. Hopwever, I am getting all my wood, mostly ash for free. Just go there and they load it in 10' long lumber . It has a lot of nails , bird feeder hooks, and some other un identifiable metal in that wood. therefore , it is hard on the blade. I I cut right in the back yard , so a trip to the garage is close. .

Laughin so hard my wife is wondering what i'm reading. Just campfire stuff , I tell her and she gives me an eye roll sometimes.

Sharpening chains in the shop I use the old Granberg File-N-Joint jig and a raker gauge. In the field I go free hand with a file holder, that is until now I use the Pferd tool in the field.





The hired man has better eyes then me (so he says) and insists on touching up in the field with file.

Not about to get rid of my raker gauges just yet. The top one I ground down below specs to use when I cut a pine plantation sale. Takes a real bite in the wood.

Old, outdated, and cool as hell.

I have 10-10's that get brought along as pinch saws.
Sometimes I just enjoy running them. But not for long!

Carlton made those, invented by Ray Carlton, one of the nices guys you could ever want. After he died the company was sold to Oregon. I have several of those somewhere but I file rakers by how the chips look.

Yes, I worked in the machine shop at Carlton.

Those work great with a grinder.
Grind a lot of chains. All sizes. That tool covers everything

I had a big old McCulloch many years ago. Man I'm glad that thing is gone.

Those were fine Sherm but Carlton made a stainless file o plate that took each tooth down to the right depth individually. It also cut the raker at a angle to help with boring through a log

I ground all my chains on a Silvey Razur Sharp II chisel bit, I only used the Carlton plate a little while then by feel on how the chain fed while cutting. You better not go to far on the rakers bucking logs using the tip boring into a log it would be if your face.

Unless one of you boys have a Homelite 8-29 (as far as I know the biggest saw ever built, frequently seen with a 87 inch bar for ripping redwood etc) Roundoak hereby nominated "Bull Buck" for the Manly Man Sidehill Gouger Society. For those of you pilgrims in Ioway what ain't seen big timber, the Mac SP 125 makes full grown redwoods quake in terror. The Sierra Club did a study, and a 6 hour day with a Mac 125 burns so much mix it causes the Pacific Ocean to rise 2 inches. Which the Sierra Club don't like, but clams do.