Introduction and Indicators of a Dull Chain

okay we're in the shop with less than Tanner control tree and we are going to show you the right way to sharpens a chainsaw blade these guys run a tree service they know how to do it and show you the two typical ways I'm gonna go through event training and hand filing so we this took us a while to really master the art of you just you have to practice it it's it's getting out there it's darkening your chains and it's cutting with your size and you have to do both of those things repeatedly to master it's an art what are some of the indicators besides not your chain not going through the log so some of these guys are gonna be going oh I know when my chain needs to be sharpened besides that where you get to the point where it's so obvious and you're going small can you tell by the chips at all when your chain needs to be sharpened yeah I mean you want you want it to throw nice long shavings Kay not sawdust not little chips long curly shavings a lot of like professional loggers and you know a lot of guys will Dale's sharpen their saw ever take the gas okay and all you have to do is one stroke with file it takes you know you use a stump vise so like if you're out in the field this is a really good tool this is called the stump vise here you take it and you pound it into a stump and then you tighten your chainsaw bar right into it if you like a professional tree company mountain of ice on the back of your truck is a good idea on the tailgate or on the fender of a trailer these are really cheap I don't know maybe five ten bucks you can get them almost anywhere but you just screw that in the end of your bar you'd hit it on the head with a mallet and what that's gonna do is that's gonna like it's gonna hold your your your chainsaw and your bar in place okay so you can you can file a good job this is the raker okay show me your tumbler this is a gullet right here the gullet yep this is the