izentrop wrote:You can sharpen fairly well with a small chainsaw with a 3 mm thick metal disc, but it spins too fast and attacks too hard to do a good job.
To sharpen my saw chains, I keep very worn grinder discs, which therefore have a small diameter (less than 10 cm), which I use with a battery grinder: a small diameter gives a lower speed of rotation in edge of the disc, and just a small blow of the disc at an appropriate angle on the worn teeth of the chainsaw chain allows it to be sharpened in 2 minutes.
I mark the first tooth in the chain with a marker to see where I started. It's very fast and efficient with a little experience to just give a little bit of the disc to sharpen each tooth without heating the chain.
Here's another simple-to-make lumberjack tool for easily moving heavy cut logs: it's called a trinqueballle.
You need a U-shaped part to which 2 wheels and a lifting / pulling bar are attached.
You will be able to recognize that the U that I recovered comes from a galvanized accessory ("offered" by a state company) ...
With 2 mason's clamps I tinkered with 2 models of log picking clamp (log clamp) with 2 different systems (we had talked about it on econology).
The trinqueballle allows a quick and simple height adjustment for larger or smaller trunks, then I improve the comfort (of the lumberjack) by adding an old mower seat to sit on the trinqueballle (and slalom between the trees in the woods ... sensations guaranteed!).
If the trunks are not too heavy, I use this trinqueballle with a spreader attached to the hitching system to hitch the horse, otherwise I pull with a vehicle.
Each year I improve the machine: we can see on the back photo that I added a tube with a small cable that wraps around the tube to hoist the trunk above the ground. It works pretty well.
I would add, finally, that these hight-tech DIYs are made with salvaged objects and the precision of the most rigorous pifometer!
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