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😎👍👍👊
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.
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!
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
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
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! 😎
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.
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.
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
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!!!!!
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 .
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Thanks Buckin', chainsaw is getting a workout up here in the western north carolina mountains. storm trees. I am working at getting my neighbors cleared, one tree at a time. cut up a big locust yesterday. that one is bucked and on my stack for next years firewood. I will split it after the emergency settles down. I use what you share to do a better job of all this. thanks man. George.
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.
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!
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.
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'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.
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..
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.
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
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 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.
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.
Billy, does a drive links with holes for oil retention work better than striation lines in the drive links ?? What about the square chain shown 17:09 that has two different file marks without the file cuts meeting at the square corner ?? Thanks Friends will rule the WORLD !!!
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 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
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
Buckn, as always, your videos are so instrumental in the learning process. You make it so easy to understand, and your laid-back teaching style just draws the viewers in and always provides the treasure we're looking for. There's also a bit of commentary along the the way that's comical in a sense that helps is laugh at ourselves as we see the similarities in our own journey in the learning process. God bless you and have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!!
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 👍
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!!
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 👍♥️🪵
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
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.
Thanks much for your informative video. Don't know much about chains and how exactly to sharpen them as it seems mine gets dull fast. So you like the Oregon the best huh? May have to try that out for my Sthil MS 362 C
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.
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.
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.
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. 🌲❤️🌲👊🪓
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.
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.
Hi Billy. I pretty much run all semi chisel here for cutting dry elm that's really hard and general firewood. I put more hook in it than what you like but it stays sharp longer and cuts just as fast as full chisel. I sometimes get a little to much hook but it has no problems self feeding. Thanks
In my limited experience, semi chisel can handle a touch more angle on the cutters than full chisel. Same geometry on my full chisel chains and they dull somewhat quickly.. but the semis keep on chooching. Circles are strong :-)
@@two-strokesmoke7289 No power equipment dealer nearby? My ace hardwares all spin loops and the john deere dealer (also stihl/echo) will spin loops of whatever you want. Tractor supply and big box have some semi chisel too but those stores almost always don't have what you need size wise, and its Tri-link rebranded so its kinda meh
@@mattfleming86 I haven't "beat the bushes" real hard but every time I look (usually winter) I never can find any......Black Hills and Northern plains area.
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.
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 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 ...
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.
I have to say bucken from my heart brother thank you for sharing your ideas on wood it's helped me out tremendously I am more efficient I just wanted to tell you that peace be kind wish I could meet ya sometime
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
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.
Great explanation there buckin. I had a machine but gone back to hand filing as a grind stone looses it shape after a while. Just feel the file never lies. Be kind my friend.
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.
Hi Buckin, luving ur channel .. listen I've taken on board the square file grinding .. so tell me can I use the same square file on all chains & if so .. in theory at least can I get rid of all the different sized round files 🙃🙃
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!
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
Bardzo dobrze Pan tlumaczy ostrzenie lancucha na kazdy mozliwy sposob. Brawo🤝. U nas w Polsce tez próbujemy square grind. I jest szybszy, gladko tnie lancuch. A co do koncowego komentarza. Ci wszyscy madrzy zaluzcie konto na UA-cam i pokazcie co potraficie. Ja bardzo szanuje takich ludzi jak Pan Billy Ray💪 Szczery, uczynny, zyciowy. Normalny i powazy facet. Pozdrawiam serdecznie. Niech moc square grind bedzie z nami
I've attempted sharpening in the past to only get lucky occasionally and it would cut a little better. The one thing that might be different is, I really don't enjoy running the saw as much as I used to being 55. Getting through a full tank on my farm boss was all I could handle a few years ago. Well I heat my shop with wood and nothing else so I go through quite a bit in a normal winter. All that being said, when the saw is cutting as it should and running as it should the, task at hand becomes more enjoyable! I really appreciate the knowledge and now I'm off to ruin another chain! I will keep trashing them until I get it right. Thanks again "Friend"! Oh and I 100% agree that no matter the age, or IQ , you can learn some thing new or "never attempted" as I like to say. 😁
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😎👍👍👊
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.
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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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
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
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
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! 😎
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!
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.
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.
A man should never quit learning. I am glad you are still learning and willing to show us what you know. Thank you.
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
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!!!!!
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 .
Came for the sharpening, stayed for the drumming.
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
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.
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.
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.😃
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.
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!
Thanks Buckin', chainsaw is getting a workout up here in the western north carolina mountains. storm trees. I am working at getting my neighbors cleared, one tree at a time. cut up a big locust yesterday. that one is bucked and on my stack for next years firewood. I will split it after the emergency settles down. I use what you share to do a better job of all this. thanks man. George.
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.
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!
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 content! Great Teacher! Great Personality! Great attitude! Great Smile! I really enjoy your vids. I have learned so much! Keep up the good work!
Thanks BBR, your enthusiasm is contagious, and your willingness to share your knowledge with others is a beautiful thing. True UA-cam gold!
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'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
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..
Fantastic. You've got me so interested like I'm just learning chain science for the first time. Better than Netflix, bravo.
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.
Super helpful. Don't worry about naysayers. Gave me a totally new understanding on sharpening my saw
Love your sharpening videos. I'm in the 10 percent of people milling logs. I have several rip chains and I'm ok at sharpening but have more to learn.
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
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 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.
I really like your approach and attitude. Thanks for just speaking honestly.
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.
Billy, does a drive links with holes for oil retention work better than striation lines in the drive links ?? What about the square chain shown 17:09 that has two different file marks without the file cuts meeting at the square corner ?? Thanks
Friends will rule the WORLD !!!
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 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
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!
Buckn, as always, your videos are so instrumental in the learning process. You make it so easy to understand, and your laid-back teaching style just draws the viewers in and always provides the treasure we're looking for. There's also a bit of commentary along the the way that's comical in a sense that helps is laugh at ourselves as we see the similarities in our own journey in the learning process. God bless you and have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!!
Thanks for the refresher on chain sharpening! Always learning brother.
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 👍
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!!
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 👍♥️🪵
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
Thanks for sharing your knowledge, that snare sounds awesome too!
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.
Thanks much for your informative video. Don't know much about chains and how exactly to sharpen them as it seems mine gets dull fast. So you like the Oregon the best huh? May have to try that out for my Sthil MS 362 C
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.
Greatest utube video made ever! And I’m not talking about the chain info! Lol. Love ya Sir!
Felling I use flat top rakers at .030 bucking round rakers .030. Keep chain angles correct. Works for me. Agree flat top dull quicker.
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.
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.
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. 🌲❤️🌲👊🪓
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
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.
Hi Billy. I pretty much run all semi chisel here for cutting dry elm that's really hard and general firewood. I put more hook in it than what you like but it stays sharp longer and cuts just as fast as full chisel. I sometimes get a little to much hook but it has no problems self feeding. Thanks
In my limited experience, semi chisel can handle a touch more angle on the cutters than full chisel. Same geometry on my full chisel chains and they dull somewhat quickly.. but the semis keep on chooching. Circles are strong :-)
@@mattfleming86 I cannot find semi chisels locally very easy anymore........
@@two-strokesmoke7289 No power equipment dealer nearby? My ace hardwares all spin loops and the john deere dealer (also stihl/echo) will spin loops of whatever you want.
Tractor supply and big box have some semi chisel too but those stores almost always don't have what you need size wise, and its Tri-link rebranded so its kinda meh
@@mattfleming86 I haven't "beat the bushes" real hard but every time I look (usually winter) I never can find any......Black Hills and Northern plains area.
Great info on the sharpening techniques and also great words of wisdom at the end! Thank you Billy
Thanks!
Well done Billy.....show your friends how it's done the right way....From Sydney Australia
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!)
I know what you're saying. From practice, I got good at filing the bits on the sawmill. Improving on the chainsaw.
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
Brother you are a good man. I appreciate how you work hard and treat people with respect and inspire them to believe in themselves.
Thanks you again buckin
We still learn each day
From you're video
It make me happy to see ya
Talking about power saws. 😉
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 😉
Great chain discussion and visual presentation. Where was this 25 years ago when I learned the hard way lol.
Great vid again, always so helpful. And love the old Vistalite ... i have a blue one from'75!!
best video yet.
not even stopping during a toilet break.
hella funny.
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 ...
Best ever chain explanation!
Also, there's our drummer star doing it!
Funniest moment, Buckin taking a leak!!! 🤣😅😂🤣😅🥺🤣😅😂🤣😅😂then flushing!!!!
Thanks for entertaining.
I have watched all your filing videos! Always helpful!
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!
I have to say bucken from my heart brother thank you for sharing your ideas on wood it's helped me out tremendously I am more efficient I just wanted to tell you that peace be kind wish I could meet ya sometime
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
Love your philosophy on life. You are an inspiration, great job
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.
Great explanation there buckin. I had a machine but gone back to hand filing as a grind stone looses it shape after a while. Just feel the file never lies. Be kind my friend.
Ome as to have the broadest range of info to grasp what you are offering BBR. Good show my brother.
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! 😂
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.
Hi Buckin, luving ur channel .. listen I've taken on board the square file grinding .. so tell me can I use the same square file on all chains & if so .. in theory at least can I get rid of all the different sized round files 🙃🙃
Trippin' on chain with Buckin' Billy Ray!
Thank you!!!
Nice trap set too!!!
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!
oh these chains drive me crazy with ,pitch ,sprockets ,gauge ,i will sharpen think its great and wont cut s--t,now ive learned alot thanks bud
That drum set is awesome! Super cool!
Cool drumming! Very educational chain video. What are your thoughts on the Timberline Sharpner? Do a review of the Timberline please.
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, this was informative. Pay no attention to the nay sayers, just be yourself. You got it going on and i love your outlook. Good job.
I absolutely love you buddy!! 🪓👍
Bardzo dobrze Pan tlumaczy ostrzenie lancucha na kazdy mozliwy sposob. Brawo🤝. U nas w Polsce tez próbujemy square grind. I jest szybszy, gladko tnie lancuch. A co do koncowego komentarza. Ci wszyscy madrzy zaluzcie konto na UA-cam i pokazcie co potraficie. Ja bardzo szanuje takich ludzi jak Pan Billy Ray💪
Szczery, uczynny, zyciowy. Normalny i powazy facet. Pozdrawiam serdecznie. Niech moc square grind bedzie z nami
a have learn so mutch by watching yours videos. now a get my chain charp.
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.
Chain school...so much clarity...thank you Buckin 😊
you bet paully
I've attempted sharpening in the past to only get lucky occasionally and it would cut a little better. The one thing that might be different is, I really don't enjoy running the saw as much as I used to being 55. Getting through a full tank on my farm boss was all I could handle a few years ago. Well I heat my shop with wood and nothing else so I go through quite a bit in a normal winter. All that being said, when the saw is cutting as it should and running as it should the, task at hand becomes more enjoyable! I really appreciate the knowledge and now I'm off to ruin another chain! I will keep trashing them until I get it right. Thanks again "Friend"! Oh and I 100% agree that no matter the age, or IQ , you can learn some thing new or "never attempted" as I like to say. 😁
Show me how to sharpen my saw it cuts great new when I sharpen it ,it has small chips what am I doing wrong.