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jim
02-24-2004 18:11:42
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Re: Aggressive chainsaw chain in reply to smark, 02-24-2004 14:48:07
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here is my two cents worth. If you want a good aggresive chain, get a full chisel chain, no safety things, then you can file a little off your rakers, then hold on. Now the disadvantages:
Full chisel chain is a square tooth, very fast cutting saw chain, the down side, if you are not a careful sawyer, you will be sharpening chains quite frequently. Cut clean wood, keep you bar out of the dirt, will cust a cord of wood before needs sharpening. I use Carlton chain for this purpaose.
Now, if you are a carelss sawyer and get dirty wood, or getting your bar in the dirt a lot, get your self some carbide sprayed chipper chain with no safety links on it. The jist of what I am trying to say is, if you want a chain to cut fast, it will not stay sharp as long, as one that might cut a little slower. I do not know what you are looking for in speed. I use a regular chipper chain with no safety links and it will cut just as fast a my saw wants to cut it. ripping chain is not a good option for doing anything but ripping. If you are a Stihl man. tell him you want a RS typr of chain, stands for rapid-super. their is not much out there that is better and Stihl chain does keep an edge better than most other chains. It is as good as Carlton, and as I said, I have not found on better. AS for the carbide sprayed chain, you will be looking at about $1.00 per driver, meaning $75.00-$80.00 per chain. Had a lumber company bring chains in on a daily basis to get sharpened, the sold them this stuff and then they were down to less than once a week. that chain makes a lot of differance. I'm done jabbering now.
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