TractorTYMe
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Out with my TYM T474 and Tajfun AGV45A Forestry winch cleaning up downed trees from early 21 in the pasture. This thing is slick as snot.
Tractors and wood! Show your pics
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Are you surprised?Sounds like you like your winch
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Ya think??Sounds like you like your winch
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dodge man
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I cut some more logs into firewood length today. I own a Stihl MS261 and MS250. Yesterday I used the 261 and didn’t think it was cutting that great. I used the 250 this morning and immediately knew the 261 wasn’t sharp. The 250 was throwing nice big chips. I ran a tank through the 250 and went and sharpened the 261 and it was much better.
How much pressure do you use when sharpening? I sharpen after every tank of fuel and often don’t use a lot of pressure on the file if the chain isn’t that dull. I may need to use a little more sometimes.
How much pressure do you use when sharpening? I sharpen after every tank of fuel and often don’t use a lot of pressure on the file if the chain isn’t that dull. I may need to use a little more sometimes.
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If you have to use much pressure, it's probably time to replace your file. (One of the quickest ways to dull a file is back-dragging it. Make sure you lift it off the tooth when returning the file for the next stroke.)
I'm not really sure how to describe the pressure I use. Much more like brushing my teeth than like scrubbing out pot with cooked-on crud.
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Interesting question so I did an experiment. I put a file to a saw like I normally do and was cognizant of the amount of force I used. Then I took various weights of stuff and put them on a small scale. I used weight from 1 to 5 lb. So going back and forth from saw to weights so I'd get an idea of muscle memory, I came up with the file pressure able to move a 2 lb weight about a half inch on my work bench.
This should tell you nothing but it did tell me how much force I use to file.
What John Mc said is critical about sharpness and back dragging.
I find a file rather innocuous when used a dozen times and when i was logging, I'd change them out using them 6 to 8 times.
I'd buy 3 dozen at a time and they weren't junk files. I didn't have time to mess around and if I took more than 3 minutes to touch up a 20" chain, the file got tossed. If the chain got nicked, off it came.
Now they use mechanical monsters to clear land so there's that. I guess the logger here in the N.E. became like taking a bus to Florida instead of a plane.
No money in producing firewood. Now they use trees here to produce wood pellets.
No one touches a thing except controls on mechanical monsters.
dodge man
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I feel I’m generally using the right amount of pressure. One thing I knew but haven’t been doing is back dragging the file across the tooth. I don’t use any pressure but I need to take the file out of the tooth and put it back in.
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More importantly, that looks like a Challenger in the background pic but I don't recall a grill design with vertical slats.
Road Runner perhaps but looks too short to be one?
dodge man
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There is actually a picture of a Challenger in the background but mostly obscured, it has fire coming out of the carb on a backfire. The picture you probably see is a 72 Satellite Sebring.