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Chainsaw not cutting

  • 10-06-2012 12:12am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭


    Have chain sharpened, rakers aren't showing above gauge, but it still isn't cutting without force :mad:

    What am I doing wrong, it's wrecking me head!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    Muckit wrote: »
    Have chain sharpened, rakers aren't showing above gauge, but it still isn't cutting without force :mad:

    What am I doing wrong, it's wrecking me head!

    Time for ya to go to bed Muckit. Too late to be cutting timber. You probably have the chain on backwards:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Nope chain not on backwards! :o I'I have to bring it to a lad.
    Not time for bed yet, there are millars to be drank :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    You can judge if you have the clearance right on the depth gauges from the fineness of the sawdust. If the sawdust is too coarse, then you may have filed down the depth gauges too much. This would cause the saw to work too hard. This could be the problem.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭Figerty


    Maybe you should sharpen the chain again! before Miller time!
    But seriously, you might not be as good at sharpening the saw as you might think. I got a video from Vallorbe (makers of files) and it showed me what I was doing wrong. Poor technique will put a shine on the blade but not cutting edge.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    pakalasa wrote: »
    You can judge if you have the clearance right on the depth gauges from the fineness of the sawdust. If the sawdust is too coarse, then you may have filed down the depth gauges too much. This would cause the saw to work too hard. This could be the problem.

    I didn't touch the rakers because they were not showing above gauge. It's the opposite, sawdust is fine, not coarse.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    How are you sharpening it?

    I use an Oregon file guide kit like the one below:

    http://www.oregonchain.com/pro/products/accessories/AssembledFileGuide.htm

    Though I've seen these and am interested:

    http://www.oregonchain.com/pro/products/accessories/BarMountFileGuide.htm

    Oregon chain that I have used, then resharpened with the file guide cut well for me last Winter, on mature furze anyways - don't have a lot else to cut with it :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,552 ✭✭✭pakalasa


    When you sharpen the links, you have to get the top edge and the side edge all in the one go. So in a way you have to pull the file up and back towards you, as you file. If you lean down too hard then the top edge doesn't get filed at all. Have a look in under the links to see if the top edge is getting shined.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 262 ✭✭greenfingers89


    Muckit wrote: »
    sawdust is fine, not coarse.

    file the rakers


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,676 ✭✭✭kay 9


    As above, take the rakers down more and a quick rub to the chain and ya should be laughing. It should bite when dull when the rakers are down enough.


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