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Tim, this is one of the best sharpening theory videos I've found. You have obviously coalesced an entire career into these insights. Thank you so much!

Nice tribute! God bless

I never thought a high stump shot on a heavy tree could lead to a crushed hinge and potentially a misdirected fall. Thanks!

Great information, thank you.

Great video, loved the music, great tribute! When I go that far on a clean up I'll go ahead and pop the e clip on the clutch and wash the the needle bearing with brake clean spray and reassemble with a dab of grease, the cleaning can leave water and grit in there. I follow that with a start and good warm up to help it dry. Thanks for posting the vid!

Love this. Stihl Varioclean is also an excellent product, but I will caution - it’s of the “high-test” variety. It melts hardened pine pitch. Use sparingly, and enjoy!

A clean saw is a happy saw. Thanks Tim.

Even saws need a little tender lovin care. My wife went to the saw shop to get my saw and out of the 10 or 15 saws on the floor she automatically knew which one was mine. She told the front desk lady in her strong Cajun accent …. ”Cher, I know which ones my husband’s saw. He would never bring in a saw lookin like those over there”.

My cleaners: S100 Total Cycle Cleaner, Super Clean (small metal parts, and chains only), air compressor, STIHL's hedge trimmer blade cleaner and resin remover, brushes, and some rags.

No demonstration of how to use the file or the file size for a particular chaim.

Good informative explanation, Have used Xp and Professional Autotunes . Great saws.

Congratulations, Warren

Excellent reminders! Thanks for setting and holding us to keep the standard!

Good stuff Tim

Who makes the better saw husky or stihl

To thick hinge, and probably been cutting it from straight backwards. Best solution here is to stick the saw in behind the hinge, and finish the hinge with correct thickness before you start the main cut. When correct thickness on the edge is achieved, then you finish the main cut cutting from hinge and bakwards. In scandinavia its called the storm-cut. Safe with no barberchair. Some species have stiffer fibers than other, and the thickness of the hinge is more important. Greetings from Norway :D

One of the little saws I have; has an .043 3/8lp. The one I'm comparing it to has an .050 3/8lp. My question is; are the cutters the same size, and do they take the same size file? I just got back into chainsaws. In my younger years; I ran Stihl 051, 075, and 090; with 30", and 42", and 60" respectively. But now; at 70; 0:02 I'm getting back into chainsaws; but battery operated. I have a few mini saws, a 10", 12", and 14" Greenworks, and two EGO 18", and one EGO 24"! I have loads of fun with them. I can eyeball the size of a file that LOOKS to be correct; but I was just wondering about the cutter size between the two gauge sizes. Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.

I'm not really understanding file size. I'm pretty sure that the cutters aren't the same size for a 3/8 .043, and a 3/8 .050. Am I wrong? Would you use the same size file for both chains? And yes; I do know what the various numbers mean. It just seems like the cutters are bigger on my .050 chains; compared to the .043.

B is the main reason but C and d contribute

Barber 💺

Definitely hinge too thick. I can't say that I've never done that before, a couple of times, even with a bore cut and proper length hinge, which surprised me at the time, but I learned my lesson.

B. Hinge too thick due to D. Lack of experience. The face looks like it might be only 10% of the diameter?

all the above plus several more.

Bravo, Men!

Thanks, Tim! You made this an excellent lesson!

NICE VIDEO

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In the UK we often bore / “letterbox” the middle of the tree from the face cut before setting the hinge. It reduced the chance of barber chair, it prevent fibre pull, it makes rolling out easier in the event of hang up, and it allows the use of a shorter bar - it is common to be felling trees that are more than twice bar length.

i bought 562 because this video ...used it almost every day .....11 months later the saw needs rebuilt... the Auto tune ran so lean it literally burns up cylinder and rings.... never again will I own a auto tune saws .

High praise from a man of your stature. Be well friend.

This stuff works. Even I can do it! Another great video. 😊

I always learn something valuable from your videos. Sometimes it's something I've learned before, but it never hurts to hear it again.

Hey Tim! I heard you mention boring out a portion of the hinge from the face-cut side. What kind of guidelines can you share regarding this type of bore cut?

Great info as always ! Awesome videos.

Thanks for the great video. So sorry you had to get such strong flak for others miss understanding or difference of opinion. Thanks for sharing all your experiences, we can continuously learn and have better understand and work more safe. Hang in there buddy.

Excellent.

I don’t even own a chainsaw but I love watching these videos

Sounds like a bunch of marketing crap. If a saw is constantly updating itself several times a second like they claim, you’d never have any need to idle one for 5 1/2 minutes and do a light rip cut in order to set itself. So which is it? Is it making constant adjustments? In which case you should just be able to give it the standard warm up and start making cuts. Or do you need to go through some stupid procedures every time the temperature changes? 🤦🏻‍♂️

Great discussion tonight. Glad to see you're doing well and passing on your knowledge and history.

Just attended class with Chris this week and can’t speak highly enough about it! Great class, tons of great techniques and ideas as well as a great instructor! Thanks to you and Chris for such a great experience!

Triple Hinge

I mean, aren't all flooded saws solved by doing that? I run dolmars and they can flood very easily and that's pretty much the same approach I take to start it.

I have a n.o.s. 2014 jonsered 2260, with maybe 5 to 6 tanks of fuel thru her, I run amsoil Sabre at 40:1 in all my saws, is the procedure the same for the older version autotunes mk1 and the newer mk2 versions, mine did not idle well out of the box as well, also in hotter temps it was an absolute bear to start, it seemed like it was vapor locking, or if it ran out of fuel, hot starts are very tough to say the least!!

Liam said that’s our friend talking Chris.

Enjoyed the video and instruction. You're correct a lot of information can be had on-line for entertainment, very little for instruction. Been following Tim for over a year and have learned or refreshed a lot. Glad to see a new group of instructors helping him out and making us all better sawyers. Many thanks.

B. S. The first guy pulling the rip cord didn’t have the safety engaged. So fake.

Thanks for all, Tim & Company.

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