Charging and Replacing Your Lawn Mower Battery Safely

To optimize the life and reliability of your chainsaw, it's important to service it regularly. Here are a few points that will help.

Below are Daily Routines, Weekly Routines, and Monthly Routines.

You spent all your energy trying to push that dull chainsaw into each cut and you accidently lost control.

It's time to play it safe. Let's sharpen your chainsaw.

Caution!

Before we dive in, let's set a couple ground rules for sharpening your chain manually.

First, always wear protective safety gear when sharpening your chainsaw. This includes safety goggles and leather gloves.

Second, unhook the spark plug wire from the spark plug to prevent accidental start up.

Tools You Will Need

For basic, yet proper chainsaw sharpening, use a chainsaw filing kit. Read your chainsaw's owner's manual to determine the size of your chain. Each filing kit contains files that correspond to a specific chain size.

Most chainsaw filing kits include:

• Round file for sharpening the curved areas of the cutting teeth.
• Flat file for sharpening the depth gauges.
• Filing guide to ensure the round file sharpens at the proper angles.
• Depth gauge tool to set the height of the depth gauges to be filed.
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• Round file for sharpening the curved areas of the cutting teeth.
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• Flat file for sharpening the depth gauges.

Some filing kits provide a filing guide/depth gauge combination tool.

Using a vice is recommended to hold the chainsaw in place when you are sharpening.

Step-By-Step Sharpening

1. If your chainsaw's chain isn't clean, clean it. This makes sharpening easier and more precise.
2. Slap the chainsaw in a vice. Make sure the chain is tensioned and clamp the bar between a vice or any tool that will hold it strongly in place.
3. Rotate the chain to locate the leading cutter (the shortest cutter on the chain). Starting with the shortest cutter allows you to determine how much to file the rest of the cutters so that all the teeth are nearly the same length.
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4. Lock the chain brake, which prevents the chain from moving when applying the filing strokes.
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5. Standing on one side of the chain, you will see cutters that face you to the inside and cutters that face away from you. File the inside facing cutters first. Every other cutting tooth is inside-facing. You will get to the other cutters when you move to the opposite side or turn the saw around.

6. Standing on one side of the chain, you will see cutters that face you to the inside and cutters that face away from you. File the inside facing cutters first. Every other cutting tooth is inside-facing. You will get to the other cutters when you move to the opposite side or turn the saw around.

   Standing on one side of the chain, you will see cutters that face you to the inside and cutters that face away from you. File the inside facing cutters first. Every other cutting tooth is inside-facing. You will get to the other cutters when you move to the opposite side or turn the saw around.

7. Slap the chainsaw in a vice. Make sure the chain is tensioned and clamp the bar between a vice or any tool that will hold it strongly in place.

Inside and Outside Facing Teeth on Chain

There are 3 angles to consider when filing each cutter. The top plate, side plate, and the cutting angle. Your file guide will have markings that help you match the correct cutting angle to the surfaces with the round file.