[ChainPoint] Saw Chain Rocks!

Wed Feb 24 23:05:40 CST 2010

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Hello Everyone!

I had a great trip to Portland this week. Looked at a lot of new items to
make saw work much better. Check out the article below.

I'm extending the special on the eBook though this weekend on the download
version ($9.99). Check it out on our eStore. You can be reading it on your
computer in just a few minutes after downloading.

The Pferd Shipping Special ends the 28th..  Get to the eStore quick.

Good Sawing,

Tim Ard

Forest Applications Training, Inc.

Phone: 770.222.2511

http://www.forestapps.com  

We have an eStore for items  discussed in our programs... eStore
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Saw Chain Rocks!

By Tim Ard, Forest Applications Training

Imagine with me for just a moment a situation at your work site that happens
easily and way too often to chainsaw operators. You cut through a limb or
log near the ground, maybe on a rock or a paved area, but you miss calculate
and you pass through the wood and cut right into the material below- Dull
chain right? Powerfully Dull!

It happened to me during a training demonstration in north Georgia a few
months back. I put together a great plan to take down a tree that was most
likely on an old home site. The tree had a boxwood type woody plant growing
around it. I began to clean around the tree so I could begin the notch cut.
In the first cuts in the brush, a rock jumped up and hit my saw chain. Have
you ever seen rocks jump? It's happened to me a couple times over the past
thirty years of saw operation (lie- a hundred times). 

No the rock didn't jump up but it did show up in the wrong place and I
dulled terribly ever cutter point on one side of the chain. Immediately I
realized the situation wasn't conducive to completing the tree fall and I
had to stop and sharpen before moving on. By the way, as a trained
professional I told the group exactly what the problem was as I pulled out
my sharpening tools from my work vest. "Someone must have hit something with
my chain the other day!" That's always a good way to substantiate the pause
in action and quickly apply blame. I hoped no one saw the sparks from the
rock I had just carved into. Oh, that's comical isn't it? Maybe now but not
then, and how often that happens as we clean up debris with a saw. 

I recently experienced something right before my eyes and in my own hands
that during my career others have attempted but didn't quite make it come
together. That connection being a rock and a saw chain that's positive and
productive to chain saw applications.  Here are the findings that rocked me.

I took a small chainsaw and cut through a six inch log in about four and
half seconds. Then I took the saw and ran the tip into a concrete composite
walkway and tried to cut. The time slowed to over thirty seconds in the next
cut (it still cut better than many chainsaws in the field but it was
rocked). I then clamped a device over the end of the bar, started the saw,
ran it up to full speed and pushed the end of the device against the log for
about 5 seconds. Turning off the saw, I removed the clamshell like device,
restarted the saw and returned to cutting four to five second rounds again.
Yeauh, that's what I said! I sharpened the chain in 5 seconds.

The new chain is an extended pitch 3/8 chain much like most of you have on
your smaller cc chain saws. The cutter is completely different though, it
sharpens from the top of the cutter instead of underneath the top. It looks
like a short, short cutter but you have to understand that the tooth length
is vertical and not horizontal. Most chains and onboard sharpening systems
that I have tried over the years were or seemed to be slower cutting and
most of all very aggressive when you consider reactive forces. The use of
the tip in plunge cut techniques using the nose of the bar was virtually
impossible. This chain meets ANSI tests and is designed to run on a
multitude of chain saws on the market. 

This product will be sold as an accessory kit to fit your smaller chain saw
and will be under $100 (actually way below $100). The kit includes a guide
bar, saw chain and a stone sharpening device that goes into the bar tip
clamshell device. When the chain life is complete, about a dozen
sharpening's, you only replace or purchase a new chain and it will come with
a new sharpening stone. You simply reuse the clamshell device for many
sharpening's, like forever. In this process I think you will also be amazed
at the life increase in your guide bar when you always run sharp chain.  

This chain cuts fast, smooth and bore cuts are very doable. I was
overwhelmingly impressed! 

You can take this system to the woods, around the town, your backyard or
even up a tree and you are always a few seconds away from a sharp-- properly
sharpened saw. 

By the way, if your spouse or significant other has a strong desire for
diamonds for their birthday, anniversary or upcoming special occasion gift-
you can have your stone and hit it too, so to speak. Invest in diamonds and
sharpening power at your local OregonR Saw Chain and Accessory Retailer.  

Find out more about this great new accessory for your chain saw (maybe Pole
Saw?) and diamonds at www.PowerSharp.com . 

The OregonR PowerSharpR!  It Rocks!

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