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Hand File Chainsaw Teeth

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How the Pro's sharpen a chainsaw

What happens here

Begin by marking a starting point on both sides of your chainsaw chain with a marker. This helps track your progress. You will sharpen every other tooth on one side first, then turn the chain around and sharpen the remaining teeth from the opposite side. When filing, only apply pressure on the push stroke; do not file on the pull stroke to avoid damaging the file. Use a round file that matches the size of your chain's teeth (refer to a chart if unsure). Hold the file at a consistent angle, level with the top plate of the tooth, and push it towards the back of the tooth. Apply even pressure and the same number of strokes for each tooth to ensure consistency. Do not sharpen the gullet; focus only on the back and top plate of the tooth. After every few teeth, tap the file to remove metal filings.

Goal: Sharpen chainsaw teeth manually to a consistent angle and length

Tools and materials

  • Chainsaw Stihl — The object being sharpened
  • Chainsaw Vise — To hold the chainsaw securely
  • Oregon Hand File Oregon — To sharpen the teeth of the chainsaw chain
  • Sharpie Marker Sharpie — To mark a starting point on the chain

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is you want to mark your starting point on each side you're gonna start on this side and you're gonna be basically skipping every other and then you got to turn the whole chain around you start all over this I up cuz the teeth your flip-flop yep and you're you I mean you gotta sharpen like this way I mean you can't go back this way there's a certain grain you can't and what's sharpening you can only push so when I'm sitting here sharpening you want to follow that angle that's what that's for they have guides for this and everything but you sit here and just so you see what file are you using is it matter I'm just using an Oregon hand file and it there's different sizes for different shapes deep to match that up yeah so if you're gonna buy one there's charts for them so how I use it I line it up I've been doing it long enough to where I don't need a guide I just sit here I have my finger here you don't want it any angle you want it level and to follow the angle on your top plate and I just sit here and you don't need a ton of pressure and you can't flip-flop it you know every other and water well you want to do this pretty much the same amount they say you want to do the same amount of swipes on every tooth but in theory you should be taking out the same amount of metal that makes any sense yes so you could be pushing really hard on one and light on the other you just you gotta pay attention and you want to so you could it depends on how dull it is so I could sit here this isn't very dull see three swipes on everyone at the bottom of the gullet you don't want to sharpen that you want to sharpen the back and the top plate of the tooth so you don't want to sharpen you don't want to sharpen down here okay that doesn't do any cutting you wash up in the back and the top plate of the tooth so you have to apply pressure with the file against against the back of the - do you want to be kind of pushing like this direction and up a little bit and some guys will even I like to twist the file a little bit that's what these it already has so what you were singing Tanner is the file itself it has swirls so you don't need to sit there and twist and what I do every time every couple teeth I'll sit here as I'm filing is that and then kind of hit off get that metal out of there because you don't want to get a bunch of metal buildup in there and these files only last so long you can't just keep the same file on charcoal hunter chains they usually say every three times you'd…

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