The other day while the sun washed across a fresh cut I noticed the sharp, self-feeding chain traced parallel lines into the log. The distinct spacing between the lines is because the chain is razor-sharp and the depth gauges are filed right. The cutters are taking just the right amount of wood with each pass. …
I had a disappointing moment this week when I found a mouse nest in the log splitter. The problem with a mouse nest in a motor isn’t the nest, it’s the overheating it causes by blocking airflow and the dreaded chewed wires. Cleaning the mouse nest out took about 15 minutes. First, I removed the …
I started my journey toward hand-filing chainsaws when I was in high school. I watched arborists run a chainsaw through wood like it was butter. I wanted to sharpen a chainsaw like that. My journey started before the internet, before YouTube. The only way to learn to hand-file a chainsaw was to know someone or …