Review of chainsaw sharpener I just bought

[Sawyer Rob]

I take in a few chains to sharpen, every once in a while... As far as I'm concerned, it's easy money!

Quality of the finished chain, is only as good as the guy running the sharpener!

SR

After coming back to this post, I can see it isn't very clear as to what I meant.

What I meant is, I sharpen a few chains for "others" once in a while... I have a Oregon sharpener, and it does a great job.

SR

 

[goeduck]

I have a Oregon sharpener, and it does a great job. SR

Same here, Oregon. I have the 511

 

[4570Man]

How long does it take you to sharpen a chain and how good of a job does it do? $4 a chain wouldn't be a profitable venture with my setup and I've never seen a good job off of an electric sharpener. Although that's not a bash toward electric sharpeners.

 

[turnkey4099]

I do a 20" loop filing with a jig that sets all the angles and depth. 10" per loop and that includes putting saw in vice, mounting and adjusting the ffiling jig. Of course that is a loop that wasn't "rocked". rocked loops take more file strokes and sometimes more than one pass.

 

[milkman]

I have one of these Granberg Bar-Mount Chainsaw Sharpener, Model# G-106B and like to use it in the shop to get the chain just right and then hand file in the field. After several touch ups in the woods, I like to use the Granberg to get the chain just right again.

 

[EddieWalker]

I forget what brand I had, but I found it to be very time consuming to sharpen a chain on it, so I gave it away ten or twelve years ago and had the shop I bought my chainsaws from sharpen them for $5 each. Then he raised the rates to $7 and I felt it was too time consuming going there, so I tried using the file like I saw those guys do on the logging shows that used to be on TV. Turns out that the file is super quick and easy. I just keep sharpening it when I feel it needs it and keep the chain on the saw until it's too stretched out to tighten it anymore. I only split 2 chords a year, so that, and whatever I cut when clearing timber is all I use it for. My current chain is probably three years old and still cutting great.

 

[Oldpath05]

My first requirement for buying any chainsaw chain sharpener is the chain stays on the bar, and the bar stays on the saw, the Grandberg meets those requirements.

The last thing I want to do is fiddle faddle around with taking a saw chain off the bar, whoops dropped it, now it's knotted all up in a figure 8, finally got the 20" chain unknotted so I can line it all up on a bench mounted chain sharpener.

Then have to fire up the compressor spend 15 minutes blowing the debris debree off the saw, line up the bar and chain with the rim sprocket, loosen up the chain tensioner, get the cover plate back, now where'd that nut go, tighten everything back up, twice, to me for me that's a 1/2 hour of complete wastes of time and unneeded aggravation...........

 

[4570Man]

It shouldn't take 30 minutes to take a chain off and put it back on.

 

[goeduck]

When the chain gets knotted up just keep the drive links in and the cutter teeth out. Then roll the two knots towards each other. The bar should be flipped regularly, the sprocket area kept free of buildup and the tip roller checked, all of which can be done when pulling the chain which takes just a few minutes.

I have about 6 loops for my most commonly used saw and about 3 loops for the other two. Every now and then I pull out the bench grinder (I put it on and old workmate stand) and spend 45min to an hour and I am all set to go. Much less time than I can hand file. But that may be just me.

 

[turnkey4099]

I forget what brand I had, but I found it to be very time consuming to sharpen a chain on it, so I gave it away ten or twelve years ago and had the shop I bought my chainsaws from sharpen them for $5 each. Then he raised the rates to $7 and I felt it was too time consuming going there, so I tried using the file like I saw those guys do on the logging shows that used to be on TV. Turns out that the file is super quick and easy. I just keep sharpening it when I feel it needs it and keep the chain on the saw until it's too stretched out to tighten it anymore. I only split 2 chords a year, so that, and whatever I cut when clearing timber is all I use it for. My current chain is probably three years old and still cutting great.

You don't need to throw away a chain that has stretched too far to tighten. Just remove (or have dealer remove) one drive link.