How electric chainsaw chain sharpener review, save your money and your Stihl saw

While cleaning-up, the damage left behind by a storm. Your new chain saw suddenly for no apparent reason, quits cutting through the larger branches. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but there really is a reason. While cutting the tree limbs you must have hit something that dulled the cutting edges of the saw chain.

Ok, I feel your pain, the saw works great on the small limbs and branches; however, it will not cut through the larger branches, or the trunk of the wind-damaged tree. Every time you start using your chain saw to cut a large branch, the saw starts out cutting straight, but after a few inches it starts to cut to the right or left causing the bar and chain to get bound-up.

Chain saws use a combination of the bar, and the saw chain working together to cut a tree, its limbs and branches. When any of the cutters on a saw chain gets dull, you can expect cutting problems to arise. A saw chain has alternating cutters, which is to say. There are cutters on the right side of a saw chain that removes material from the right side of the cut, which establishes the right side of the kerth. Subsequently, there are cutters on the left side of a saw chain, responsible for the removal of material on the left side of the kerth. What is the kerth you ask; simply put, the gap left by the material cut away by the saw chain and its cutters is the kerth.

Cutters on a saw chain have two different cutting surfaces on the same cutter. The top portion of the cutter works much the same way a wood chisel works, with the side of the cutter limiting how wide a chip of wood is. When everything is as it should be, your chain saw works, as it should. However, when on one side of the saw chain hits a foreign object, damage occurs resulting in a dull set of cutting surfaces. This results in one side of the chain cutting well, taking bigger bites out of the wood as compared to the damaged cutters, making the saw cut badly.

The easy solution, replace the saw chain with a new chain. This option is a good one if you have lots of money to spend. For most of us however, there is a better option, use an electric chain saw sharpener, save your money, and sharpen the saw chain.

Best of luck with all your lawn maintenance tasks, Mike

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