Chainsaws

Reached out to the guy and he still has it. Might be making a trip up that way Saturday if it doesn't sell before then.
 
jeepinmatt said:
The question is "what is your time worth?". Its gonna take 3-4hrs of fiddling and f'n around and ordering parts no matter what. If your time is worth $20/hr, $200 is a good deal. If your time is worth $50/hr, thats a decent deal, if your time is worth $100/hr you should buy a good running one, if your time is worth $200/hr you should buy a new one.
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Yeah but those numbers only count if you would have been working making money instead. Drinking beers in the garage dicking around with a "deal" of a chainsaw, while not being in the house is not wasted time. At least that's how I justify things to myself 😂😂
 
ghost said:
Yea well that never really computes for me. 3 - 4 hours working on something like that is generally just fun.
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awheelterd said:
Yeah but those numbers only count if you would have been working making money instead. Drinking beers in the garage dicking around with a "deal" of a chainsaw, while not being in the house is not wasted time. At least that's how I justify things to myself 😂😂
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For me, it always starts off as a good idea, and turns into F this shizz, why am I wasting time fighting this crap to save $50.
 
jeepinmatt said:
For me, it always starts off as a good idea, and turns into F this shizz, why am I wasting time fighting this crap to save $50.
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I try to keep that kind of negativity out of my life. When I get to that stage I like to quietly set that project off to the side (out of my wife's sight) and move on for a few years.
 
awheelterd said:
Yeah but those numbers only count if you would have been working making money instead. Drinking beers in the garage dicking around with a "deal" of a chainsaw, while not being in the house is not wasted time. At least that's how I justify things to myself 😂😂
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Exactly! If it all boils down to money in vs money out....then we would all drive a leased corolla and buy whatever we wheel pre-built from a shop. There are definitely instances when this logic applies, I think the unseen variable is how much of a disruption to your life said "unpaid work" will result in.

If it is putting a roof on my house, I will probably farm it out, I can't put that on the back burner if my back gives out, if I screw something up and have to fix it, if home depot doesn't have enough bundles of shingles to complete the job, yada yada yada.

A spare saw, that can sit on the bench until I move out of the house and the next owner inherits it without too much guilt, shame, fuss.
 
How about doing nothing. Just cut up a couple pecan logs and oak and some broken branch nubs off a pine log. Seems to be running fine. Muffler is loose or missing screws somewhere. We shall see how she holds up.
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I need a local to come by and show me how to sharpen mine.

I dulled it out about 5 years ago within a few days of buying it to remove some trees and haven't touched it since. (Yeah, I'm that guy.)
 
If you’re running full house chain the 2 in 1 files work pretty darn good. They hit the cutter and the depth gauge/raker in the same stroke and ride on the top plates of the tooth for alignment.

Buckin’ has some pretty good videos on hand filing.

Just gotta get in the shop and practice.
 
lbyota85 said:
If you’re running full house chain the 2 in 1 files work pretty darn good. They hit the cutter and the depth gauge/raker in the same stroke and ride on the top plates of the tooth for alignment.

Buckin’ has some pretty good videos on hand filing.

Just gotta get in the shop and practice.
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I know @jeepinmatt swears by that one. I borrowed my neighbors the other day and promptly ordered the. 325 and .375 one that night.
 
justjeepin86 said:
I know @jeepinmatt swears by that one. I borrowed my neighbors the other day and promptly ordered the. 325 and .375 one that night.
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Maybe I oversold it, haha :D I do like how it sets the rakers automatically though. But honestly all the ones I've done recently have been too deep, so the saw is stalling out more than it should because of overload. I'm probably pushing down too hard, and the flat files are cutting the rakers a lot more than the round file is cutting the tooth.
 
jeepinmatt said:
Maybe I oversold it, haha :D I do like how it sets the rakers automatically though. But honestly all the ones I've done recently have been too deep, so the saw is stalling out more than it should because of overload. I'm probably pushing down too hard, and the flat files are cutting the rakers a lot more than the round file is cutting the tooth.
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It does have depth guides that ride on the top of the tooth.
 
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