Tree Cutting Safety: Chainsaw Sharpening

When you chain saw stop doing the work for you, you want to make sure that when that chain stops cutting itself that you stop and sharpen. There is a five parts of the cutter tooth that make that job possible. The first part we want to take a look at is the point, make sure there is no damage in this area and that is the part you can really start into the fiber. The second area is over here in the side the side plate cutting angle that needs to be without damage and also virtually straight up and down. You want to make sure that it is 90 degrees not hoop forward to back slope, another areas is a top plate. On this particular tooth we have a witness smart to give up a top plate angle of 25 to 30 degrees and also we need to make sure no damages in that cutting surface.

Number 4 is down here it is called the chisel angle basically peals that chip out of the curve and that particular angle is uplift 45 degrees and the last to make it is cutting into the fiber on it s own is the depth gauge or raker and this particular gadget sets up and determines the depth that the cutters allowed to get into the wood fiber. A very simple tool to accomplish the task of getting all fiber of these parts correct again is this tool. This can set on top of the tooth that you are filing. But also rest on the tooth in front as you file through it has a round file which cuts the radius of the tooth and also a flat file in place to take the raker in the same strokes and it can be reverse right cutter and the left cutter. But we works too into a forward motion and basically taking off the damage, restructuring that surface and at the same time because this tooth is going down hill. These one is going down hill on the top plates. It lowers the guide down and the flat file it takes the depth gauge in proportion to the height. Keep should chain cutting straight and keeps it cutting into the woods on its own power.