okay I'm gonna sharpen a chain by hand and I'm gonna show you how I do it
now for you experts out there you can do this any way you like this is how I do
it this chain tooth has an angle you see
that angle when you file it you want to stay with that angle you don't want to
file it this way for that way you want to follow that angle that's what I
wanted to show you close up and then these before the tooth are called rakers
and what they do is prevent the tooth from biting to deepen it'll just bind up
if it takes too big a bite so over time as you sharpen this tooth further in
towards my thumb the height of it comes lower the front edge of that tooth the
leading edge of that tooth it's a little lower over time as you sharpen it so to
compensate for that you have to take this file and file some off the top of
the rakers with a flat file and that's what you won't be able to I'm explaining
to you now close up what I'm gonna be doing that you won't be able to likely
see me do so uh let me just sharpen a few teeth and show you how I do it
there's different size files for different sized teeth to my knowledge
there's two commonly that you and I would use there are bigger chains and
bigger files but these two are common and honestly I forgot the diameters let
me see if it says on the tang I'm probably not gonna be able to see it
yeah 7/32 actually I got three here so
7/32 that would be a big chain
good lord I can't read it huh don't have a magnifying glass here somewhere
I know I do well geez
well it's not 3/16 but that's what it looks like can't be 3/16 cuz well I
guess it could this is 5 30 seconds yeah I guess that is 3/16 all right 5 30
seconds is what I'm using on this so here I go
you're gonna keep this at the angle that the tooth is already cut at you don't
want to get away from that angle and when the file doesn't seem like it's
dragging as much that's when it to me it feels like it's sharp then I take the
flat file and I see where the rakers are at and I just take the file and i
eyeball it there is a gauge but you have to use this gauge while it's on your
chainsaw and I don't like sharpening this on my chainsaw and you know I have
pretty good luck eyeballing things I'm gonna call that call that square right
there now I'm gonna move to the next tooth
okay you see all these teeth are you have one tooth this way and the next
tooth is that way well you do all the teeth one direction and then you take
the chain out and you turn it around and you do all the teeth that are in the
other direction I'm not gonna do the whole chain
say I can feel it not digging in as much yeah this is a lot a lot of it's by site
and a lot of it's also by field I have a chainsaw sharpener it's I don't know if
it's in the picture not but it's right here and I do use that on my bigger
chains like I've got a chain over there right now on it that I'm I plan on
sharpening later but the smaller chains there's not much tooth here to begin
with and that electric chainsaw sharpener it it takes a little wider
tooth off no matter how careful you are you lose a lot more tooth using the
electric one than you do using the using a file so the small my 16 inch saws i
sharpened by hand and my 20 inch chain saws blades change I sharpen on the
chainsaw sharpener play I've used that word a lot chain chain chain chain chain
some chains have a colored link on them let me see if I can find it on this yeah
maybe hey this can you see you where are you
can you see the green paints on this here let me get my hair how about that
that green paint what I do is start at that link and then when I come back
around to that link I know I've you know it's it's hard to remember and it's hard
to see what link you've sharpened and what you didn't so alright I'm going to
show you what I do when I get to the end and I got to turn it around you just
take the chain off turn it around this way and you sharpen the ones that are
facing away from you
same way only you're kind of sharpening away from yourself same way that's a
cheap file there I got to get another file I got plenty of them alright
that's uh that's all they wanted to show you that's pretty easy to do and I do
this in the field I bring all my files with me and want to sit down and take a
break I get my files out and just hit my my chainsaw with it just my chainsaw
chain not the chainsaw just because it's you know no effort really and it's
something to do while you're sitting and a sharp chain will sure make the day go
quicker thanks for watching y'all well I thought about since I was here I would
just go ahead and show you how I sharpen them on the electric chainsaw this is
just a Harbor Freight cheapy twenty nine bucks
twenty four twenty five something like that you mount your chain and this
groove right here this groove that's pretty bright back behind it so the sun
is shining in yonder window and it's uh there we go maybe that'll help so this
just mimics the chainsaw bar here and you lower it down into that chainsaw bar
you lock it in this is a stock where you put the teeth the tooth up against that
stop you adjust that stuff with this knob and you check to make sure that
you're going to be cutting off enough tooth and that your angle is right and
it is and here's your angle right here there's an adjustment knob under here
you loosen the adjustment knob and and you can set this angle but most most all
chains are are cut at thirty degrees so I'm gonna plug in let me see them flip
down
I'm gonna do this holding the camera
we don't want to do greater than you
moving up you skip the tooth and is facing the other direction
oh you don't want to do is overheat the two
and when you are ready to do the other teeth that are facing the opposite
direction then do this dog and put it at 30 degrees over here and you just do the
same thing just in the opposite okay that's all my chainsaw knowledge I have
now passed them on to you music well