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Spent 2 hours trying to chip a stump with a dull chain before my groundie said one sentence that wrecked me
Last Tuesday we were clearing a maple stump in a backyard over on Ferndale Ave and I kept pushing the saw into it with the same chain I'd been running all week on clean trunk wood. My groundie Marcus watched me for maybe 20 minutes, then just goes "you know that chain's full of dirt, right?" I pulled it off and the cutters were packed solid with grit from the root ball and soil, so of course it was skating instead of cutting. Grabbed a fresh chain, took me 6 minutes to finish what I'd been fighting for two hours. How often do you all swap chains on dirty stump work versus just sharpening in the field?
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rivera.jake14d ago
Ha, man that one sentence has ended so many of my afternoons. I've done the exact same thing, just leaning on the saw and getting madder by the minute while the chain is basically cutting peanut butter. Dirt and grit from a root ball will kill a chain faster than anything, so on stump work I usually just grab a fresh one instead of messing with a file in the yard. Sharpening in the field sounds good until you're squatting in the chips trying to fix a chain that's already toast.
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