The ripping chain myth!
Your trying to find a ripping chain for your chainsaw mill and you realize they are hard to find, well let me tell you that you dont need to go out and look for a special chain. Ripping chains are over rated, just a way to get some extra money out of the average joe.Ive have run chainsaws as a hand faller on a helicopter logging operation for many years of my life, ive split logs in 2 in the bush many times because the helicopter couldn't lift a full size log, in all that time I have never needed a ripping chain to do the job, I file my saw 3 times a day and it cuts like cheese weather I cut against the grain or with the grain, some times the long string like slivers of sawdust get piled up in the dogs of the saw but its never been a problem.
I say ripping chain is a scam to get more money out of everyone who thinks they need one,"hey are you an idiot, trying to cut that log with regular chain" tell them they are idiots to pay extra for a ripping chain. all you need to do is file the chan with less angle on the tooth
Normal chain
Ripping chain
And keep the raker as high as possible to prevent the chain from cutting too fast and stalling the saw
Just my two cents
11 Comments:
I hate to tell you, but if you are truely cross cutting,
you will not get strings, you will get powder. If you are splitting a 42" log with a 48" bar, you couldn't get any angle other than 90 degrees, and thats how chainsaw mills cut.
I am about to re-grind my first chain for ripping. The original grinding is about 30 degrees. If I file it to les than 10 degrees (other literatures suggest 0 to 5 degrees) the top leeding edge will be level with the depth gauge. I belive it has to be filed down to.030 below the top cutting edge. Am I right or what?
Jeno
built my own mill and file my own chain its not to hard to teach yourself just have to be patient
I have used ripping chain on various setups. The chain indeed has a different angle for the cut tooth but every second tooth there is a raker tooth that is ground almost flat that cuts a path for the 10 degree teeth.
The purpose of the ripping chain is to allow the saw to run with less power saving the saw. Also when using a chain saw mill the boards come off with no chain marks like a standard chain. As for costs the rip chains are the same price if not a couple bucks more. If you use a chain saw mill and want your saw to last and your cut to be clean with less planning afterwards you have to use a rip chain.
Try cutting a 36 inch wide cut on a standard chain and your saw will not last very long.
Why do table saws have rip blades and cross cut blades? You can rip with crosscut blade but it will bind and stall the motor more than if you used a rip blade if cutting deep cuts.
get a carbide tip blade and spend mor tim cutting than fileing
Hey,
After reading you post, I took my old chain to the Tractor store where I usually get my chains sharpened. I described your method and they made a rip chain out of my old chain. Thank you so much for saving me hundreds of dollars. It only cost 5.00 to get it made. Thanks Again
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Sometimes it's hard to find the original chain. To re-grind 30 degrees chain - is just the way. I've tried it and my saw cut faster and works not so hard.
comment to the original poster. what kind of logger rips a log in half to reduce the weight large logs bucked into shorter pieces are worth more at the mill than a log that had some yayhoo haphazardly rips down a log. I'm truly baffled what woods boss would let you get away with that and secondly just because something works doesn't mean its the right way. and to the second poster why don't you go out pick up a saw and run it for a while before you tell someone what kind of dust you get from ripping especially when in theory that person has more hours on a saw working for psycho woods bosses the lets him rip logs in half some chains do put out long strings when ripping so until you go out and cut all species with all chain options don't be such a know it all or everyone reading this will be as dumb and the dumbest person writing this stuff.
You would rip the log in half when it is bucked to the shortest length, I would only rip logs in half if they were 8 foot and still weigh more than the helicopter could lift
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