its cheap homesteading here and today we're gonna try a few different chain
sharpeners not how we sharpen them but how well they work in the field because
it doesn't matter how good they work here if they don't work as good in the
field you're gonna choose the one that sharpens not the best no matter what no
matter what the name is or anything like that so I'm going to sharpen my chain
with the electric sharpener the Granberg and hand filing and we're gonna go out
and we're gonna see how well each one works I didn't want a little while ago
and I had them on different saws and people would complain that possibly one
had more power when I was walking the saw more and everything like that so
this time it's gonna be fully on the quality of the wood shavings because
that's basically the best way to tell if it's cutting well or not so we're gonna
try that and I'll try not to rock it or anything that's kind of hard gets in
your head you just do it so I'll try to keep that as accurate as possible we'll
give that a try
so we're gonna try the one that's been hand filed
so the hand filed one was okay cross screen because you're cutting across the
grain you're gonna have little chips and there is little chips there I wouldn't
say this is absolutely perfect because there's a lot of there's a lot of
smaller little little powdery pieces so I would say it's okay okay so this is
the end cut the ripping cut and it's pretty good there's pretty long pieces
and it's curly I'd say it's it's passable so now I'm
gonna try the Granberg
here I would say that the Granberg did better on the cross green then the hand
file for sure definitely there's a little bit more intact chunks and less
powder so the Granberg ripping cut was pretty
much identical I would say to the hand file so I'd say the Granberg did a
little bit better on the crosscut than the hand file did now I'm gonna try
the electric sharpener
the electric crosscut is really really quite good there's almost no powder and
little chips that's what you want and then the endgrain for the electric is
just incredible this is perfect you couldn't get any better than this I have
done this test like quite a few times and it seems like repeatedly repeatedly
my electric chain sharpener from power fist outperforms the grin burger hand
filing by far every time so then I thought okay I'm gonna really really try
and this time I made sure the rakers were identical I took my time sharpening
the chains and my electric sharpener still came out better so I am gonna
stick with my like to change sharpener so I really don't understand why but I
cannot get as good of an edge with the grabber or hand filing as I can with my
electric sharpener so that's pretty well what I'm gonna keep doing because it
just works better and cut more wood so have a good one