Been doin firewood and tree work For 40 years .4 years ago after watching Buckin sharpen a chain it got even better lol ! Remember our 🪓 of kindness Army😎👍👍👊
I started my own tree service because of what you said. " don't wanna be 80 saying man I shoulda started that business " Jimerson Tree & Home Care has been born and I got 2 big locust trees to bring down tmr I can't even sleep cause i wanna get my bunsin seat on n jonsered fired up. You're a great man and a great inspiration to a lot of folks. Your 1 of a kind: we could use more people like you in this world. Many thanks be safe, brother.
Is it possible to start a tree cutting business like that if you have no experience in climbing and de-limbing trees like you see some do with the ropes and bungee cords. I love cutting trees and bucking, but I’ve never worked in it as a job. However, I’m considering a complete career change and just wondering what I should do. I’m currently 37 years old.
@@user-hn9qg5qm3o As a suggestion perhaps start with an arborist course; get hired on with a company and fulfill your apprenticeship and get your certification license. After a few years you'll know enough if a business start up is right for you.
Right on Kyle, Thats cool stay safe n sane out there buddy. It's an awesome feeling when you take a big dirty tree down in a tight spot or trim one out so nice the owner has you maintain it for years to come 👍 here's to doing treework at 80 or tryin anyway! 😎
In watching all your videos I have gone from descent at sharpening chain to really good. That said I still learn so much every time I watch your videos. I appreciate the time and effort you put into all these videos, keep it up it makes professional amateurs like myself get better every day.
Aussie wood cutter here. Over about 24 years I have tried all the different chains to figure what cuts best, lasts longest etc in Aussie hardwoods which are frankly brutal on chain. The following I found out through trial and error. Aussie hardwood is a complex mixture of resins, silica, minerals and very hard fibres. Regular bar oil is okay but not ideal. One day when I had run out I used 10 40 diesel motor oil instead on Ironbark which is an absolute bastard to cut dry. The chain ran cooler and stayed sharp way longer. It cut faster too. Because it's less sticky it sprays oil on to the teeth as they cut. It also stops the chain gumming up with resin. I use full chisel chain now. It cuts a lot faster than round ground and it's quicker to resharpen. I hand file. Every third sharpening I use the new Stihl file guide to get the rakers down. I like it. It works for me. The other thing I always do is run the chain till it spits clean oil after a run. A wet oily chain files much quicker and stops the file teeth getting hot. Also dissolves gum on the chain.
I came on Buckin's channel few months ago by searching videos on how to sharpen a chain. Stayed here, not planning on leaving.. Best plain and simple, no nonsense education on sharpening technique I found online!
My dad gave me his old chainsaw that my little brother used occasionally. They encouraged me to buy a mechanical sharpener but I have other types of tools with blades and I prefer hand sharpening. I have got this old chainsaw running and thanks to your knowledge sharing, it cuts like a champion. Cheers!
The more I watch, go back to yesterdays, watch more, I feel like I'm knowing more, yet feeling more and more lost looking at my own chain. Thank you billy, I'm not confused.
Thanks for these type videos. I cut wood with my dad in Missouri till 30 or so. I could make them cut, sometimes better than others. My dad was good and fast at sharpening. I learned alot from him and forgotten alot. He died 16 years ago and had bad asthma and copd for 10 years before that. I ran the stihl and he liked to run his homelite super xl or it was a super xl 12. So you are helping me remember stuff and teaching me stuff I didn't know, so thank you. I try to live my life with kindness and the Serenity prayer and things usually seem to work itself out. Bless you and yours. Be safe but have fun. Owe and BE KIND
Hey Buckin, Best video ever with the bathroom money shot! If you haven't done so recently, get your prostate and PSA checked, don't ask why, just do it! I spent the first 5 years of my logging career bucking tree lengths on skidder landings. So every tree was potentially coated with mud, sand, dirt, dust and ice. NE Washington and N Idaho. I often had to file 10 to 20 times a day so I quickly learned to file, 400 to 1000 cuts plus limbing. Different brands and types of chain make a difference. Chipper (round top) or Semi-Chisel round filed is very good for dirty or muddy conditions. It's forgiving for beginner filers and lasts well for cutting firewood too.
Love these videos it helps a bunch. I'm 62 and have been cutting wood and running a chain saw since I was 15 and evertime I watch one of these videos I learn something! Thank you
Billy, your a highly skilled woodsman that’s obvious but your also an educator and a philosopher. I appreciate the way you ended this video, challenging others to put their ideas and experience out. When I worked I often challenged those I worked with to voice their ideas and to challenge mine. Good ideas and practices will stand up to being challenged bad ideas won’t .
Filing is so subtil, I’m not ashamed to tell it took 2 years to finally be able to get a constant result. I learned more watching your videos than from anybody else
Your videos on chains and sharpening are spot on. I just received my sets of Pferd files from Germany and used your techniques to hand sharpen my Oregon and Stihl full chisel chains. I got my various chains sharper than the new chains out of the box. Keep the great content flowing! Cheers!
Pierd files are light years ahead of Oregon’s China made files. When it comes to files, IMO, the more costly Pferd and Nicholson files are the most cost effective. In the long run quality tools are the cheapest.
I'm just a humble DIY guy, I don't chop logs but for those few times than a little tree branch or stump shows up, I bought a small cordless chainsaw. The stock chain dulled quickly, I threw two more Oregon chains at it and to be honest, for the number of times that I will need this tool I could easily afford a new chain per job and be happy. However, I do like tools, doesn't matter what it does but I like them to be in good working order and so knowing how to recognise and correct sits well with me. I got something out of the video - thanks.
Thank You Buckin Billy, I have never had a real lesson on filing my chains. They did not do great, and now that I have watched your videos I Know they will. I took off the cover on my brand new Husky 640 and put a new chain on and could not put the cover back on. Thanks to Steve's Small engine Saloon He showed me how to reset the brake. Youi tube Rules!!!! You are doing good work!!!! I never knew what the gullet was. Keep up the good work!!!!!
Remembered what you said about having a good point on the saw tooth, started filling again and remembering what you said and now the saw cuts great, nice to see that someone appreciates what the older saws ran like, just haven't had the time to work on my old Pioneer model RA, that was a real man's saw to operate, endless power too, thanks for your help, your truly Ed Clampit of Agawam Massachusetts..
There's alot of truth in using semi chisel chain in really hard woods. I really like it for our northeastern hard maples and beech. Easier to bore with too.
Great & very educational video. To address your comments on highly qualified/experienced tradesmen, the reality is, when you start out your career the (what I call) ski jump of education & learning is massive. Every day you learn huge amounts. As the tears tick on, the opportunities to learn get fewer and fewer. When those moments do occur to learn something new, it is much more rewarding due to the spacing between those moments. Personality depicts arrogance when refusing to accept new lessons. I love those moments when the day is broken up by learning new skills & adapting them to make the job easier and more rewarding. Once again..... Thank you.
Great tips. Helped me last year cutting trees. Other peoples' vids helped me with all sort of different projects. You are correct we're trying to learn more about how to do things ourselves. Chainsaw bogs down when I throttle up and doesn't cut. I'm sharpening my own chains but you just gave me an idea to buy a new one and make sure I'm matching its shape. Thanks.
Awesome to see the Green Vista Lites. Sounds great. Gotta love the great community that is growing here. Thank you Buckin. Keep on giving the info and I will continue to file it in my memory bank. Love ya brother. 🌲❤️🌲👊🪓
Man, you have talent! You really hit the target on this one. If I tried to multitask like you I'd have quite a mess to clean up! Really, thanks for schooling us again. Great, useful and understandable information! Thank you
I've gone from full chisel to semi chisel recently. I am not expert but there are lots of things I like about a semi-chisel chain. First off they just generally stay sharper longer and two they'll survive dirt better than full chisel. In the last two years my cutting has primarily been storm clean up so those features are important to me. Prior to that I thought that semi-chisel was for chumps so I am as surprised as anybody that I now use the semi-chisel so much. Thanks for all of your wonderful videos.
Thanks to this man for giving me the confidence to sharpen my own chain. I was not very good just a couple years ago, now I am hand filing chains and they are, in my opinion, quicker than factory chain. God bless sir.
Great close ups of many different styles of chain and grind. Everything you said made sense to me, I learnt the hard way over many years of cutting firewood on my own with no mentor . I even came up with a square grind on my own when I ran out of round files. I was amazed at how well it cut. Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge.
I don't know, after having a few beers and finding this channel I found myself laughing. As a woodsman the past 50 years I knew you said many things that struck home with me. You're very intense, but seem somewhat genuine. I worked for the Clearwater Potlatch Timber Protective Association(CPTPA) and found myself carrying a heavy old Mcculloch chainsaw in the woods for a long time. Cut through several sets of chaps because by the end of the day I was too tired to handle the saw. My first year in the woods a neighbor friend got tired and was using one hand on the saw and hit a knot, chain cut him across the throat. I managed to continue working. Through time I learned more about proper maintenance of a saw and chain sharpening is so subjective. I'll watch a few more of your videos since you make me laugh. I agree with what you say about the chain. easier and more effective is better and at my age my back can only take so much. Thanks partner.
Thank you Billy Ray. Very clearly explained and I have learned something new from you. Even after many years of using a chainsaw, I did not top to think about the chain tooth profile and how it cuts (or doesn't). I like you honest and humble approach. I agree that experience can be very good teacher, if we allow ourselves to be open to new ideas.
I didn't have a clue how to sharpen a chain until I watched your videos and now I sharpen them all myself and I have a lot of chains. Some of the chains in this video are frightening. I had no idea these other chains even existed. Drums sound good brother! Fellow drummer here, been playing for exactly 40 years. Love the bass drum work.
My saws have gone from just being able to cut a piece of wood to flying through a piece of wood 🪵. I have learned so much from these wood cutting videos. I’ve even made some improvements to my saws to make them perform better. I like it
Billy, your video's are more than just awesome buddy! The details you include in all aspects of the art is truly something you should be proud of. They've helped me and I'm sure others, in so many ways I can't thank you enough...thank you for being so detailed and specific.
I am pretty new to the game and learning a lot. Specifically from your videos along with some other great channels. It was nice to hear that there are different ways to skin a cat because the chainsaw guy mindset really wants to discourage a lot of new folks from learning. Thanks for the videos and all the help you have provided for me.
Thank you for what you do and how you take the time to explain. I am a do it yourselfer and like to do thing on my own. Without people like you to take the time to explain it to us, it is so much more difficult. I really appreciate you. Thank you so much. Love ya man.
So very glad I watched your videos, i now have a little more knowledge on sharpening my chains and not working myself to death , Thanks for the educating
Came for the chain info, and was very gracious to have learned, but am even more happy to have heard such great tone and groove on a vista. All the best from soggy Wales UK.
Good advice Billy... the ski jump profile or tooth without enough hook kind of scrapes the wood... hard on the saw and you too... a tooth with too much hook is fragile and the sharpened edge wears too quick or gets bent.... but the tooth with just the right amount of hook cuts nice... easy on the saw and lasts longer too (of course rakers have to be set correctly) Always admired your encouragement and optimism... Cheers!👍 (coming up on 375 K... way to go!)
Me too, i have followed your opinion on chain sharpening, profile and mostly understand what works. This is like collage on power saws. Haven't graduated yet.
From my own EXPERIENCE; when you hand file your square chain to make it a square file it’s easier to do it top down because you don’t NECESSARILY have the room underneath your chain-bar for the file and your hand. So it’s easier for ME to do it from the top down. I’m going out soon to test it out and see how my choices were. My round file seems to cut good, and I’ve even had a climber tell me that it cuts good. Anyway, good show BBR!
After 43 years of people trying to belittle me because I am good at what I do well really you know you are going somewhere. You have inspired me to fix my 372 xp my 240 xp is now getting a mild port job and I am looking for a few parts I need to also put my Homelite Wildcat which is a gem Lil 25cc tophandle. So thank you hell if I needed to boost my confidence I would spit some bullshit your way I promise you all the suspender pulling know it all fream
I watched the video, then fired up my Chainsaw and it cuts at the same speed as it did when I put it away yesterday! My guess is that I have to actually apply the knowledge learned in this video. Love the videos, and I just try to absorb some of the knowledge put out in these videos. Thanks for all your videos, and I love your outlook on life!
You're outlook on life is a PERFECT MATCH to your outlook on saws & chains brother! Life never gets old if you love to learn and share that learning. Best to ya mate!
Nice close up shots and good details on chain sharpening techniques. No matter how good the saw runs a dull chain will just make for a frustrating day 👍♥️🪵
Thanks for the clarification. I knew I had something wrong from the last video I saw from you. I consider myself a good woodsman and pretty good saw man for not being a pro. Round file all my saws for cutting mesquite and live oak. Thanks.
I'm right there with you on that square ground chain, watching and listening you talk about this stuff makes me all giddy. like, someone else gets it! love your videos man
I have always just went and bought a new chain every time mine gets dull. But I just got me a set to start sharpening them. Your videos are very informative so I'm gonna try it myself. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Has helped me a bunch in more ways than you know.
Holy smokes buddy, hope you saved those old chains. You will be set for life if you learn to sharpen. If you struggle with angles try a sharpening jig. Stay away from expensive bench grinders. Less life out of your chains and you can screw up a chain super fast.
you absolutely crack me up.....lecture while taking a piss. I don't even like talking on the phone while I'm in the bathroom. Great chain lesson though I have a Delmar saw with the stock bar and chain. Cuts like butter. I have an 18" Oregon bar and chain that I'll put on soon and see if there is a difference.
I recently bought another chainsaw.the chain was incredibly dull and didn't cut.. luckily i had another chain and i cut through the log wonderfully. ... I have been sharpening dull chain and i have to test it to see how much more i have to sharpen it * Edited* I feel i still i can learn and i have learned from you. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience
I’m learning a lot from you; thanks. I had just switched from having chains sharpened at the hardware store to hand filing with a stihl 2 in 1. I think I do as well as the hardware store for cutting good, but the hand filing is causing me problems with my MS. I’m shopping for a power sharpener and I don’t mind spending a couple hundred if it’s a nice tool. I hit rocks and cut rotten old wood all the time, so I need the toughest setup, not the sharpest setup. What power sharpener would you recommend? It really needs to do .325 and 1/4” chain as I have 2 small saws and one ms261cm (medium size?). I don’t like cheap tools, so I’m not looking for the minimum quality stuff. Thanks again!
Buckin I've been watching for a while and that looks like a new drum set to me. I don't have time to keep up with everything but I love it l. Love the channel really love the positive energy. Keep doing what it is you do.
Great video and thanks. I learned a lot! Those Oregon chains are cheap and great for harvesters, but I think the steel is too soft for chainsaws. I have to sharpen them 3 times as often as my Stihl chains. Every minute with the file is time wasted.
I just noticed how you mounted that woodworking vise, bolted to the top of your bench. I like how that helps move your work up higher, above the level of the bench. I may re-evaluate my vise... I turned 70 yesterday and I'm still learning. Life is good.
Great content BBR!!! Thanks for sharing your experience and wisdom. Concerning those that write stories in the comments section. Just remember that they probably have zero experience and they Google the information to make themselves look smart. Anyone can gain knowledge but have ZERO experience. Here's a quote I live by as a teacher, instructor and student: "One experiment is better than one million opinions"
Great video thanks a bunch. Personal experience re round chain. Dad had me on a saw by about 13-14. We would go and cut firewood. All hardwood, maple beech mostly. He had us cut the limbs down to 1 inch diameter. So when I am young he is bucking the trunk and I am going nuts on the limbs. Lots of firewood in the limbs. Always cut with round chain. I end up getting a bar and chain off a neighbor (same saw) and i am bucking the branches and getting hit by the smaller pieces chain is flinging them, ouch what's going On? Square chain! Absolutely. Grabby on the small diameter stuff. So round it is for this guy for that reason and the durability reason as well. Thanks for the sharpening tips. I still buck down to an inch 45 years later.
Yep, I run semi chisel on my liming saw and full chisel for ringing because I too find the semi to be smoother on the smaller stuff and if I'm going to hit anything dirty it'll be with that saw, I ring logs in the air and run noticeably faster with full chisel, but I'm also cutting primarily pine, cypress, and lucitanica which I imagine is a much different story to hardwood. Like Billy says, just go experience it and you'll find what's best for you.
I use half chisel only where i live in austria we have lots of moss and stones inclusions in our bark buckin with fullchisel u plunge once and the you sit 10 to 15 min resharpening so im bound to the round but it cut plenty fast for firewood thanks for sharing your wisdom 👍
These videos are kinda relaxing, just enjoying your enthusiastic lessons about all things chainsaw 👍 But i had no idea that you are a fellow drummer too! Awesome! What a lovely Ludwig kit you've got. You have a good touch with the drums, nice and light 👍 Im sending you greetings from Finland. Another drummer here 🤝
Thanks for your explanation of types of chains and how to get different profiles. With the four chainsaws I have I will have fun sharpening them and try the different profiles.
God bless you brother!:-) just ran across some of your videos already learned quite a bit just by the few that I've watched I wanted just to tell you God bless you have a blessed day!!
Thank you I really appreciate your sharpening video's i learned alot and it works I used to only be able to sharpen a chain of 6 or 8 times then it wouldn't cut straight and I would count my strokes and all the cheap hand fileing gadgets so I would buy a chain every day I was cutting I likely cut about ten days a year 6 hours a day and a new husky chain was awesome I thought but now I have a chain I've used for 3 days and it's way better then new thank you sorry so long but your saving me 💰 and in today's economy every dollar helps
hey Buckin thanks for sharing your filing methods always room for learning .At anything . think it is time to put on a new chain almost . on the 572 new chain ..we got some cutting, these things sing ...cheers ..burned a couple of tanks of gas helping out a lady today ...trying ...
Aaa... man I love the way you explain those things. I'm quite new in chain sharpening and you're explaining along with examples of good and bad made a lot of sense for me. I'm watching you from Romania, sorry if my English isn't perfect 😉
That explains the chain my mac 1-43 came with and also why it's missing the dogs. Somebody had used it on a mill. Can you square file a semi chisel or round chain or is it better to just round file it. Any experience with it. Thanks
Been doin firewood and tree work For 40 years .4 years ago after watching Buckin sharpen a chain it got even better lol ! Remember our 🪓 of kindness Army😎👍👍👊
I started my own tree service because of what you said. " don't wanna be 80 saying man I shoulda started that business " Jimerson Tree & Home Care has been born and I got 2 big locust trees to bring down tmr I can't even sleep cause i wanna get my bunsin seat on n jonsered fired up. You're a great man and a great inspiration to a lot of folks. Your 1 of a kind: we could use more people like you in this world. Many thanks be safe, brother.
How’d the job go?
Sounds great! How'd you make out? Be safe!
Is it possible to start a tree cutting business like that if you have no experience in climbing and de-limbing trees like you see some do with the ropes and bungee cords. I love cutting trees and bucking, but I’ve never worked in it as a job. However, I’m considering a complete career change and just wondering what I should do. I’m currently 37 years old.
@@user-hn9qg5qm3o As a suggestion perhaps start with an arborist course; get hired on with a company and fulfill your apprenticeship and get your certification license. After a few years you'll know enough if a business start up is right for you.
Right on Kyle, Thats cool stay safe n sane out there buddy. It's an awesome feeling when you take a big dirty tree down in a tight spot or trim one out so nice the owner has you maintain it for years to come 👍 here's to doing treework at 80 or tryin anyway! 😎
In watching all your videos I have gone from descent at sharpening chain to really good. That said I still learn so much every time I watch your videos. I appreciate the time and effort you put into all these videos, keep it up it makes professional amateurs like myself get better every day.
this dude is clearly crazy but I learn a lot from him too
I'm wanting a full chisel chain and to cut the sleeves off my buckin outfit.
@@burtreynolds3143 Crazy or just fing awesome? He talks like I think, Friends.
Aussie wood cutter here. Over about 24 years I have tried all the different chains to figure what cuts best, lasts longest etc in Aussie hardwoods which are frankly brutal on chain.
The following I found out through trial and error.
Aussie hardwood is a complex mixture of resins, silica, minerals and very hard fibres.
Regular bar oil is okay but not ideal. One day when I had run out I used 10 40 diesel motor oil instead on Ironbark which is an absolute bastard to cut dry.
The chain ran cooler and stayed sharp way longer. It cut faster too.
Because it's less sticky it sprays oil on to the teeth as they cut. It also stops the chain gumming up with resin.
I use full chisel chain now. It cuts a lot faster than round ground and it's quicker to resharpen. I hand file. Every third sharpening I use the new Stihl file guide to get the rakers down. I like it. It works for me. The other thing I always do is run the chain till it spits clean oil after a run. A wet oily chain files much quicker and stops the file teeth getting hot. Also dissolves gum on the chain.
I'm at full attention during these lectures, professor, and I'm always better off for it! Thank you. Hand file all day.
Good man
I came on Buckin's channel few months ago by searching videos on how to sharpen a chain. Stayed here, not planning on leaving..
Best plain and simple, no nonsense education on sharpening technique I found online!
Hello , been cutting fire wood for many 30 plus yrs. thanks for posting the video I think everyone can pick up a trick or two. .. happy cutting !!!
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My dad gave me his old chainsaw that my little brother used occasionally. They encouraged me to buy a mechanical sharpener but I have other types of tools with blades and I prefer hand sharpening. I have got this old chainsaw running and thanks to your knowledge sharing, it cuts like a champion. Cheers!
The more I watch, go back to yesterdays, watch more, I feel like I'm knowing more, yet feeling more and more lost looking at my own chain. Thank you billy, I'm not confused.
welcome
Came for the sharpening, stayed for the drumming.
A man should never quit learning. I am glad you are still learning and willing to show us what you know. Thank you.
Thanks for these type videos. I cut wood with my dad in Missouri till 30 or so. I could make them cut, sometimes better than others. My dad was good and fast at sharpening. I learned alot from him and forgotten alot. He died 16 years ago and had bad asthma and copd for 10 years before that. I ran the stihl and he liked to run his homelite super xl or it was a super xl 12. So you are helping me remember stuff and teaching me stuff I didn't know, so thank you. I try to live my life with kindness and the Serenity prayer and things usually seem to work itself out. Bless you and yours. Be safe but have fun. Owe and BE KIND
Hey Buckin, Best video ever with the bathroom money shot!
If you haven't done so recently, get your prostate and PSA checked, don't ask why, just do it!
I spent the first 5 years of my logging career bucking tree lengths on skidder landings. So every tree was potentially coated with mud, sand, dirt, dust and ice. NE Washington and N Idaho.
I often had to file 10 to 20 times a day so I quickly learned to file, 400 to 1000 cuts plus limbing. Different brands and types of chain make a difference. Chipper (round top) or Semi-Chisel round filed is very good for dirty or muddy conditions. It's forgiving for beginner filers and lasts well for cutting firewood too.
Love these videos it helps a bunch. I'm 62 and have been cutting wood and running a chain saw since I was 15 and evertime I watch one of these videos I learn something! Thank you
Awesome, thank you for this. Been scratching my head as to why i’m constantly cutting with huge curves through the cut. Cheers from Australia!
Billy, your a highly skilled woodsman that’s obvious but your also an educator and a philosopher. I appreciate the way you ended this video, challenging others to put their ideas and experience out. When I worked I often challenged those I worked with to voice their ideas and to challenge mine. Good ideas and practices will stand up to being challenged bad ideas won’t .
Best ever chain explanation!
Also, there's our drummer star doing it!
Funniest moment, Buckin taking a leak!!! 🤣😅😂🤣😅🥺🤣😅😂🤣😅😂then flushing!!!!
Thanks for entertaining.
Filing is so subtil, I’m not ashamed to tell it took 2 years to finally be able to get a constant result. I learned more watching your videos than from anybody else
Your videos on chains and sharpening are spot on. I just received my sets of Pferd files from Germany and used your techniques to hand sharpen my Oregon and Stihl full chisel chains. I got my various chains sharper than the new chains out of the box. Keep the great content flowing! Cheers!
Pierd files are light years ahead of Oregon’s China made files. When it comes to files, IMO, the more costly Pferd and Nicholson files are the most cost effective. In the long run quality tools are the cheapest.
Gee, take all the other chain sharpening videos but BB's off air and ONLY KEEP HIS!!!! KEEP UP THE GREAT INFO BROTHER.😃
I'm just a humble DIY guy, I don't chop logs but for those few times than a little tree branch or stump shows up, I bought a small cordless chainsaw. The stock chain dulled quickly, I threw two more Oregon chains at it and to be honest, for the number of times that I will need this tool I could easily afford a new chain per job and be happy. However, I do like tools, doesn't matter what it does but I like them to be in good working order and so knowing how to recognise and correct sits well with me.
I got something out of the video - thanks.
Thank You Buckin Billy, I have never had a real lesson on filing my chains. They did not do great, and now that I have watched your videos I Know they will. I took off the cover on my brand new Husky 640 and put a new chain on and could not put the cover back on. Thanks to Steve's Small engine Saloon He showed me how to reset the brake. Youi tube Rules!!!! You are doing good work!!!! I never knew what the gullet was. Keep up the good work!!!!!
Remembered what you said about having a good point on the saw tooth, started filling again and remembering what you said and now the saw cuts great, nice to see that someone appreciates what the older saws ran like, just haven't had the time to work on my old Pioneer model RA, that was a real man's saw to operate, endless power too, thanks for your help, your truly Ed Clampit of Agawam Massachusetts..
There's alot of truth in using semi chisel chain in really hard woods. I really like it for our northeastern hard maples and beech. Easier to bore with too.
Much smoother in the bore brother
Yep, semi every time down here in Victoria, Australia. I don't like sharpening THAT much!
Great & very educational video.
To address your comments on highly qualified/experienced tradesmen, the reality is, when you start out your career the (what I call) ski jump of education & learning is massive. Every day you learn huge amounts.
As the tears tick on, the opportunities to learn get fewer and fewer. When those moments do occur to learn something new, it is much more rewarding due to the spacing between those moments.
Personality depicts arrogance when refusing to accept new lessons.
I love those moments when the day is broken up by learning new skills & adapting them to make the job easier and more rewarding.
Once again..... Thank you.
Great tips. Helped me last year cutting trees. Other peoples' vids helped me with all sort of different projects. You are correct we're trying to learn more about how to do things ourselves. Chainsaw bogs down when I throttle up and doesn't cut. I'm sharpening my own chains but you just gave me an idea to buy a new one and make sure I'm matching its shape. Thanks.
Great content! Great Teacher! Great Personality! Great attitude! Great Smile! I really enjoy your vids. I have learned so much! Keep up the good work!
Well done Billy.....show your friends how it's done the right way....From Sydney Australia
Awesome to see the Green Vista Lites. Sounds great. Gotta love the great community that is growing here. Thank you Buckin. Keep on giving the info and I will continue to file it in my memory bank. Love ya brother. 🌲❤️🌲👊🪓
Trippin' on chain with Buckin' Billy Ray!
Thank you!!!
Nice trap set too!!!
Thanks BBR, your enthusiasm is contagious, and your willingness to share your knowledge with others is a beautiful thing. True UA-cam gold!
Felling I use flat top rakers at .030 bucking round rakers .030. Keep chain angles correct. Works for me. Agree flat top dull quicker.
Man, you have talent! You really hit the target on this one. If I tried to multitask like you I'd have quite a mess to clean up! Really, thanks for schooling us again. Great, useful and understandable information! Thank you
Thanks again!
I've gone from full chisel to semi chisel recently. I am not expert but there are lots of things I like about a semi-chisel chain. First off they just generally stay sharper longer and two they'll survive dirt better than full chisel. In the last two years my cutting has primarily been storm clean up so those features are important to me. Prior to that I thought that semi-chisel was for chumps so I am as surprised as anybody that I now use the semi-chisel so much.
Thanks for all of your wonderful videos.
semi-chisel allso good for green wood
Thanks to this man for giving me the confidence to sharpen my own chain. I was not very good just a couple years ago, now I am hand filing chains and they are, in my opinion, quicker than factory chain.
God bless sir.
Thanks for the refresher on chain sharpening! Always learning brother.
Great close ups of many different styles of chain and grind. Everything you said made sense to me, I learnt the hard way over many years of cutting firewood on my own with no mentor . I even came up with a square grind on my own when I ran out of round files. I was amazed at how well it cut. Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge.
I don't know, after having a few beers and finding this channel I found myself laughing. As a woodsman the past 50 years I knew you said many things that struck home with me. You're very intense, but seem somewhat genuine. I worked for the Clearwater Potlatch Timber Protective Association(CPTPA) and found myself carrying a heavy old Mcculloch chainsaw in the woods for a long time. Cut through several sets of chaps because by the end of the day I was too tired to handle the saw. My first year in the woods a neighbor friend got tired and was using one hand on the saw and hit a knot, chain cut him across the throat. I managed to continue working. Through time I learned more about proper maintenance of a saw and chain sharpening is so subjective. I'll watch a few more of your videos since you make me laugh. I agree with what you say about the chain. easier and more effective is better and at my age my back can only take so much. Thanks partner.
Great info on the sharpening techniques and also great words of wisdom at the end! Thank you Billy
Thank you Billy Ray. Very clearly explained and I have learned something new from you. Even after many years of using a chainsaw, I did not top to think about the chain tooth profile and how it cuts (or doesn't). I like you honest and humble approach. I agree that experience can be very good teacher, if we allow ourselves to be open to new ideas.
I didn't have a clue how to sharpen a chain until I watched your videos and now I sharpen them all myself and I have a lot of chains. Some of the chains in this video are frightening. I had no idea these other chains even existed. Drums sound good brother! Fellow drummer here, been playing for exactly 40 years. Love the bass drum work.
I have watched all your filing videos! Always helpful!
My saws have gone from just being able to cut a piece of wood to flying through a piece of wood 🪵. I have learned so much from these wood cutting videos. I’ve even made some improvements to my saws to make them perform better. I like it
Billy, your video's are more than just awesome buddy! The details you include in all aspects of the art is truly something you should be proud of. They've helped me and I'm sure others, in so many ways I can't thank you enough...thank you for being so detailed and specific.
That drum set is awesome! Super cool!
Hard, hard wood! I was expecting it to just be you washing hands at the sink... I was rolling once I realized it wasn't.
I am pretty new to the game and learning a lot. Specifically from your videos along with some other great channels. It was nice to hear that there are different ways to skin a cat because the chainsaw guy mindset really wants to discourage a lot of new folks from learning. Thanks for the videos and all the help you have provided for me.
Thank you for what you do and how you take the time to explain. I am a do it yourselfer and like to do thing on my own. Without people like you to take the time to explain it to us, it is so much more difficult. I really appreciate you. Thank you so much. Love ya man.
So very glad I watched your videos, i now have a little more knowledge on sharpening my chains and not working myself to death , Thanks for the educating
Came for the chain info, and was very gracious to have learned, but am even more happy to have heard such great tone and groove on a vista. All the best from soggy Wales UK.
Good advice Billy... the ski jump profile or tooth without enough hook kind of scrapes the wood... hard on the saw and you too... a tooth with too much hook is fragile and the sharpened edge wears too quick or gets bent.... but the tooth with just the right amount of hook cuts nice... easy on the saw and lasts longer too (of course rakers have to be set correctly)
Always admired your encouragement and optimism... Cheers!👍 (coming up on 375 K... way to go!)
Me too, i have followed your opinion on chain sharpening, profile and mostly understand what works. This is like collage on power saws. Haven't graduated yet.
Best chainsaw sharpening vid iv seen yet. Cheers
From my own EXPERIENCE; when you hand file your square chain to make it a square file it’s easier to do it top down because you don’t NECESSARILY have the room underneath your chain-bar for the file and your hand. So it’s easier for ME to do it from the top down. I’m going out soon to test it out and see how my choices were. My round file seems to cut good, and I’ve even had a climber tell me that it cuts good. Anyway, good show BBR!
I really like your approach and attitude. Thanks for just speaking honestly.
Thanks for the time and effort you put into helping me understand the "why" of chain geometry. Excellent and very much appreciated!
Gee, ima 🌲 tree! 😂
After 43 years of people trying to belittle me because I am good at what I do well really you know you are going somewhere. You have inspired me to fix my 372 xp my 240 xp is now getting a mild port job and I am looking for a few parts I need to also put my Homelite Wildcat which is a gem Lil 25cc tophandle. So thank you hell if I needed to boost my confidence I would spit some bullshit your way I promise you all the suspender pulling know it all fream
Love the video buckin you make so much sense and the more complex parts so easy to understand love ya buddy stay well
Super helpful. Don't worry about naysayers. Gave me a totally new understanding on sharpening my saw
Thanks for sharing your knowledge, that snare sounds awesome too!
I watched the video, then fired up my Chainsaw and it cuts at the same speed as it did when I put it away yesterday! My guess is that I have to actually apply the knowledge learned in this video. Love the videos, and I just try to absorb some of the knowledge put out in these videos. Thanks for all your videos, and I love your outlook on life!
You're outlook on life is a PERFECT MATCH to your outlook on saws & chains brother! Life never gets old if you love to learn and share that learning. Best to ya mate!
Nice close up shots and good details on chain sharpening techniques. No matter how good the saw runs a dull chain will just make for a frustrating day 👍♥️🪵
Fantastic. You've got me so interested like I'm just learning chain science for the first time. Better than Netflix, bravo.
Thank you buckin great to see you on drums love the share of your knowledge
Thanks for the clarification. I knew I had something wrong from the last video I saw from you. I consider myself a good woodsman and pretty good saw man for not being a pro. Round file all my saws for cutting mesquite and live oak. Thanks.
I know what you're saying. From practice, I got good at filing the bits on the sawmill. Improving on the chainsaw.
Very helpful, Mr. Buckin. Thanks for your troubles.
Greatest utube video made ever! And I’m not talking about the chain info! Lol. Love ya Sir!
Love your drum work !
I'm so happy I started watching Ray's videos again.
Hey, It's Buckin" Phil Collins!!! Nice video, I learned from it!
I'm right there with you on that square ground chain, watching and listening you talk about this stuff makes me all giddy. like, someone else gets it! love your videos man
I have always just went and bought a new chain every time mine gets dull. But I just got me a set to start sharpening them. Your videos are very informative so I'm gonna try it myself. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Has helped me a bunch in more ways than you know.
Holy smokes buddy, hope you saved those old chains. You will be set for life if you learn to sharpen. If you struggle with angles try a sharpening jig. Stay away from expensive bench grinders. Less life out of your chains and you can screw up a chain super fast.
@@miketrisket788 well I was young and dumb and throwed them away lol. But time to learn now.
Great chain discussion and visual presentation. Where was this 25 years ago when I learned the hard way lol.
Awesome message, thanks Billy!
you absolutely crack me up.....lecture while taking a piss. I don't even like talking on the phone while I'm in the bathroom. Great chain lesson though I have a Delmar saw with the stock bar and chain. Cuts like butter. I have an 18" Oregon bar and chain that I'll put on soon and see if there is a difference.
I come for the valuable knowledge, but I stay for the hilarious comedy and goofiness.
Thank you for the chain saw education....I like to learn things!!!! Have a great day!!!
I recently bought another chainsaw.the chain was incredibly dull and didn't cut.. luckily i had another chain and i cut through the log wonderfully. ... I have been sharpening dull chain and i have to test it to see how much more i have to sharpen it
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I feel i still i can learn and i have learned from you. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience
a have learn so mutch by watching yours videos. now a get my chain charp.
Thank you for your instructions!
I am learning much!
I’m learning a lot from you; thanks. I had just switched from having chains sharpened at the hardware store to hand filing with a stihl 2 in 1. I think I do as well as the hardware store for cutting good, but the hand filing is causing me problems with my MS.
I’m shopping for a power sharpener and I don’t mind spending a couple hundred if it’s a nice tool. I hit rocks and cut rotten old wood all the time, so I need the toughest setup, not the sharpest setup.
What power sharpener would you recommend? It really needs to do .325 and 1/4” chain as I have 2 small saws and one ms261cm (medium size?). I don’t like cheap tools, so I’m not looking for the minimum quality stuff.
Thanks again!
Buckin I've been watching for a while and that looks like a new drum set to me. I don't have time to keep up with everything but I love it l. Love the channel really love the positive energy. Keep doing what it is you do.
Thank you for sharing this. And also thank you for the extra time to share a positive and supportive message.
Loved the drum work too. ;^)
Great video and thanks. I learned a lot!
Those Oregon chains are cheap and great for harvesters, but I think the steel is too soft for chainsaws. I have to sharpen them 3 times as often as my Stihl chains. Every minute with the file is time wasted.
I just noticed how you mounted that woodworking vise, bolted to the top of your bench. I like how that helps move your work up higher, above the level of the bench. I may re-evaluate my vise... I turned 70 yesterday and I'm still learning. Life is good.
Cool, thanks
Great content BBR!!! Thanks for sharing your experience and wisdom. Concerning those that write stories in the comments section. Just remember that they probably have zero experience and they Google the information to make themselves look smart. Anyone can gain knowledge but have ZERO experience. Here's a quote I live by as a teacher, instructor and student: "One experiment is better than one million opinions"
Great video thanks a bunch. Personal experience re round chain. Dad had me on a saw by about 13-14. We would go and cut firewood. All hardwood, maple beech mostly. He had us cut the limbs down to 1 inch diameter. So when I am young he is bucking the trunk and I am going nuts on the limbs. Lots of firewood in the limbs. Always cut with round chain. I end up getting a bar and chain off a neighbor (same saw) and i am bucking the branches and getting hit by the smaller pieces chain is flinging them, ouch what's going On? Square chain! Absolutely. Grabby on the small diameter stuff. So round it is for this guy for that reason and the durability reason as well. Thanks for the sharpening tips. I still buck down to an inch 45 years later.
Yep, I run semi chisel on my liming saw and full chisel for ringing because I too find the semi to be smoother on the smaller stuff and if I'm going to hit anything dirty it'll be with that saw, I ring logs in the air and run noticeably faster with full chisel, but I'm also cutting primarily pine, cypress, and lucitanica which I imagine is a much different story to hardwood.
Like Billy says, just go experience it and you'll find what's best for you.
Chain school...so much clarity...thank you Buckin 😊
you bet paully
Thank you for sharing good education, love your channel!!!
I use half chisel only where i live in austria we have lots of moss and stones inclusions in our bark buckin with fullchisel u plunge once and the you sit 10 to 15 min resharpening so im bound to the round but it cut plenty fast for firewood thanks for sharing your wisdom 👍
These videos are kinda relaxing, just enjoying your enthusiastic lessons about all things chainsaw 👍
But i had no idea that you are a fellow drummer too! Awesome! What a lovely Ludwig kit you've got. You have a good touch with the drums, nice and light 👍
Im sending you greetings from Finland. Another drummer here 🤝
Thanks for your explanation of types of chains and how to get different profiles. With the four chainsaws I have I will have fun sharpening them and try the different profiles.
God bless you brother!:-) just ran across some of your videos already learned quite a bit just by the few that I've watched I wanted just to tell you God bless you have a blessed day!!
i dont use chainsaws but you help me learn so much thank you i love your videos and ur very kind keep it up bud
Thank you I really appreciate your sharpening video's i learned alot and it works I used to only be able to sharpen a chain of 6 or 8 times then it wouldn't cut straight and I would count my strokes and all the cheap hand fileing gadgets so I would buy a chain every day I was cutting I likely cut about ten days a year 6 hours a day and a new husky chain was awesome I thought but now I have a chain I've used for 3 days and it's way better then new thank you sorry so long but your saving me 💰 and in today's economy every dollar helps
Thanks you again buckin
We still learn each day
From you're video
It make me happy to see ya
Talking about power saws. 😉
hey Buckin thanks for sharing your filing methods always room for learning .At anything . think it is time to put on a new chain almost . on the 572 new chain ..we got some cutting, these things sing ...cheers ..burned a couple of tanks of gas helping out a lady today ...trying ...
digin it brother man, your style is a classy one. Cheers
Aaa... man I love the way you explain those things. I'm quite new in chain sharpening and you're explaining along with examples of good and bad made a lot of sense for me. I'm watching you from Romania, sorry if my English isn't perfect 😉
Hey buckin that snare sounds great👍
That explains the chain my mac 1-43 came with and also why it's missing the dogs. Somebody had used it on a mill. Can you square file a semi chisel or round chain or is it better to just round file it. Any experience with it. Thanks