[AT] Chain saw cutting issues

[Indiana Robinson]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 8:24 AM, Stephen Offiler <soffiler at gmail.com> wrote:

> THANK YOU farmer!  Your experience, plus this link, just taught me a bunch
> of things about chainsaws that I didn't know I didn't know!
>
> Steve O.
>


I believe that I am a much better chainsaw grinder for others because I
started burning wood in 1965 and have used it ever since. Some years I have
used it in more than one building and I used wood to heat two large hard to
heat stores in the past. I also used to sell a little firewood along. I
also did some tree removal work in some really stupidly dangerous
locations.  :-)  Today I wouldn't go near them but I was hungrier back
then.  :-)
In more recent years due to health factors most of my firewood supply is
acquired by Diana texting a nice young man named Eric who has taken very
good care of us. Son Scott cuts us a little along too.

This reminds me of something I once read about axes. It was saying that
beginning in colonial times the American axe quickly became far superior to
the old English axe simply because in America the blacksmiths that were
 making the axes generally cut their own wood so he took time to refine the
design. In England almost all of the wood was cut by woodcutters using
already made bought axes.

Perhaps kind of oddly I have forgotten most of the detail stuff relating to
chainsaws like all of the different gauges, link length and all of the spec
numbers that I ever knew. I just don't find a need for remembering those
things. I was never a dealer nor did I ever sell chain etc. On those fairly
rare occasions where I needed to spin out a link and replace it I always
depended on having a sample in hand.
On the other hand... I find that I have forgotten a hell of a lot of stuff
regardless of whether or not I still need it.
:-)


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Francis Robinson
aka "farmer"
Central Indiana USA
robinson46176 at gmail.com