Make your tools

[izentrop]

Lately I've been chopping firewood.
The chain saw chain should be sharpened almost every time you refuel. The round file is not ideal.
The electric sharpener is expensive and you can't always take it to the woods.

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.

I mounted the disc on a cordless inverter and variator drill and it works great. In addition, it also allows to start the lug of depth, necessary when the teeth are worn.

The main thing is to sharpen the bevel, the cutting angle of about 25 to 30 ° is less important.

It saved me a lot of time, while consuming less fuel ... If that helps ...

[GuyGadeboisTheBack]

Interesting but too dangerous.

[izentrop]

Not dangerous with good gloves. You chock the chainsaw well and you start slowly. You quickly find the right angle of attack.
In addition with a cut resistant overalls, safety shoes, possibly a helmet and a mesh to protect the face, you do not worry much.

The whole range of safety, not to mention the yellow vest to avoid being pulled like a rabbit by a reckless hunter.

[GuyGadeboisTheBack]

Not dangerous with good gloves. You chock the chainsaw well and you start slowly. You quickly find the right angle of attack.
In addition with a cut resistant overalls, safety shoes, possibly a helmet and a mesh to protect the face, you do not worry much.

Yes, seen like that, that's for sure. But who tinkers by taking this kind of precaution? In any case me not and I do not know masses of them. What is true is that limes suck. Even the Stihls. You would need tungsten or diamond files, but it costs an arm and it's hard to find (unless I'm mistaken).

[izentrop]

For quite a few years I had the opportunity to obtain wood in exchange for services. So I had invested in this kind of equipment.
It takes two to cut down, but to cut and split, when you don't have someone to accompany you, it's not a luxury and it reassures your partner ...

I created this topic because I happen to create a tool, it must happen to others too ...

Tool or object manufactured or recycled .. I am a great curator of junk.
For example, last year, we redid our kitchen. We had chosen this large slab tile gathering 4 tiles. I had cut strips of zinc 1 mm thick as a wedge between the tiles, so that the joint between the tiles was the same as the one already drawn between the 4 tiles.
Other hacks with the rab trellis, which was used to make the reinforced screed before tiling the floor:
- In the foreground the shelf with also recycled boards.
- On the wall tiles, the grid which is used to hang kitchen utensils.

[GuyGadeboisTheBack]

It's a kitsch kitchen, but I like the kitsch.

[Ahmed]

The round file works very well, provided you know how to use it (which is rarely the case according to my own observations). Hence a bunch of devices supposed to compensate for this inability ...

[GuyGadeboisTheBack]

The round file works very well, provided you know how to use it (which is rarely the case according to my own observations). Hence a bunch of devices supposed to compensate for this inability ...

I know how to handle the file (given my former job), but I find that some chains are made of such a hard steel that they do not bite, or too little. Suddenly, we spend a lot of time there for not much.

[Ahmed]

I also noticed irregularities, not between chains, but between links of the same chain, differences resulting from random heat treatments: I skipped the teeth that were too hard and then sharpened them with a fixed grinding wheel (in the workshop), which is the only way to restore the original angle settings after some use ...

[oli 80]

Hi everybody,

here is a very beautiful realization of tool for the garden

here it is done in an "elaborate" way thanks to a metal lathe, but I think that we can also make a simpler assembly
I had already heard of a hedge trimmer blade assembly on an angle grinder but never seen a photo blog or other videos

good night