Chainsaw Problems

Barry N. Turner · 2004-04-04T12:45:00+00:00

I was going to saw out a few bowl blanks (for the first time) yesterday witha borrowed chainsaw. I had a couple of 10" diameter pieces of fresh cutmaple that I had picked up from my friendly firewood dealer. Dang, thatchainsaw was dull!After spending well over an hour sharpening and then resharpening the saw,ripping the blanks apart still took a long, long time! I was afraid I wasgoing to run out of gas. I suspect the saw had been improperly sharpened,(by its owner) maybe ruined.Or, was it just because I was doing a ripping cut with a chain intendedprimarily for crosscuts? I have used chainsaws many times before, butalways cross-cutting. If blanks are normally this hard to rip with achainsaw, I'm going to have to start looking for a bigger bandsaw realsoon. Any comments? Thanks.Barry

Apr 04, 2004 20 Replies

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George 22 years ago

I keep thinking of circular saw blades, where ATB/R means score left, score right and scrape.

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