I'm going to show you how a chief lazy bastard saves money on chainsaw blades
this is my chainsaw blade sharpener here I've got three chain saws one that's a
small one 14-inch this is an 18-inch medium size and I've got King Kong in
here that's my 22 inch steel heavy the blades are expensive the bar is
expensive and the way I cut trees is use this one to do the the biggest part the
trunk I use the medium one to do my lemon they use a small one to cut the
brush up and I've got let's see one there two three four five six seven
eight I got one on that nine and one in the box ten I got ten blades I gotta
sharpen and if I were to pay to have it sharpened Oh see I think it's six or
seven bucks a blade and then they don't take the time to just put an edge on it
they sharpen half the tooth away so you get one sharpening out of it and got
throw it away I decided to do it myself I paid fifty bucks for that at harbor
freight and I've been sharpening my own blades for God years now a bitch I've
saved several hundred dollars as many blades as I have to sharpen won't show
you how to do it here as soon as I move this and sit down this has an angle
measurement on it right here and you set the angle to coincide with the angle of
the tooth and then this comes down at an angle I hope you can see that I'll
sharpen one that one's set up
you want to do a fairly quick or else you'll take the temper out of the tooth
and then it will be no good just because it's too soft but if you do it right you
can save a whole lot of money sharpening your own chainsaw blades ok see you ok
I've got the teeth sharpened now I've got to take my drum ille with a little
rough wheel on it abrasive wheel I'm going to cut the rakers and what the
rakers are if I can point to this this is a raker and this determines the depth
or how much wood or how big a chip that that tooth is going to take off so when
you grind this it leaves the raker standing up too high so you don't get a
very big chip and yet actually wears out quickly quickly without taking much wood
off so they make a gauge to file these rakers down and then I think they're
supposed to be a no I forget the measurement it's on Wikipedia though how
to sharpen a chainsaw blade and it tells you all the parts and all the places to
sharpen it and anyway what I'm going to do is uh just lightly kiss the top edge
of this raker right here with my dremel and knock it down just a hair this is
probably the last sharpening I'm going to get out of this blade because I've
sharpened it no four or five times and I haven't done that to these rakers yet so
if I take a little too much off it'll be all right and this be the last time I
use it so we'll just see if I can get this good like a detail of
looking through the camera here
we really supposed to do it with a file and you're supposed to use a gauge and
the gauge just sets over the top of the chain and whatever is above that gauge
you file it down flush with the top of the gauge but it's just one tool i don't
have case you're wondering what to get for him for christmas but okay i can
only think of one more thing to tell you about chains all these chains would get
pitch and grease and all I soaked them soak them take a brush and clean all
that pitch off and they'll cut a lot better just be sure you're dry and
whatever you clean them with diesel or gasoline or mineral spirits just be sure
you dry them real good before you put them on oh and oil and down storm inside
of a oily rag before you put them on the blade and that way they'll have oil on
them when you crank it up you won't have a dry dry start with the with a chain on
the bar okay everything you need to know about chainsaw blades see you