Thread: Cutting up pine tree

Chains are pretty cheap, i'd buy a new one. What size bar?

First try increasing the bar oil flow.If it doesn't help,water down the bar oil with a thin oil 50/50.You can even use a thin oil straight as the timber is soft,its the sap that is the issue.
Cant see an electric saw having a wider chain than the big saw,any chance the chain on the big saw is incorrect???? New chain should be around $50,get a full ripping chain,not one of those nancy semi chisel chains.
GOODLUCK
Andrew

Try spraying the bar with some "armerall" this may help.

Silly question,is the big saw sharp???? A blunt chain wont like sappy wood.
Andrew

Sounds like a blunt chain...any chainsaw with a sharp chain will absolutely eat pine. Just got a quality carlton 20inch chain on ebay for $20, so always handy to have a spare. Also, check out the running groove on the bar, that it is obstacle free, as well as where the drive sprocket is, at the motor end.

Thanks Guys,

the first thing I did was run the chain through my electric chainsaw chain sharpener. It's a friends saw, so I don't want to mess with it to much (it ****ed me off no end when people borrow my stuff and bugger around with it). He used to cut firewood for a living ... this is his "smallest" saw. I think his other one is some 100cc husquvana monster ( it would be death in my hands).



I think it's a semi-chisel ... Its "sticks" though, I don't think sharpness is the issue.



It took me ages working the saw "in and out" to get through this far. You can see I had several attempts at the last cut. I think the go get the log 50% cut through, then hammer in a wedge above it (I'm concerned the metal wedge will fall onto the spinning chain if I'm not quick enough).



this is the chain the little electric saw runs ...



The electric saw isn't as fast as a petrol powered one... but it eats through this like it's nothing. The only issue I've ever had with it is it'll "chatter" through the bar if you cut 100% of the bars depth (though it does it easily).



It's not chain sharpness ... it's the bar is getting wedged, it's just like when you and idiot and you cut from the wrong direction and end up with the weight of the wood your cutting wedging the bar ... requiring you to somehow "lift" whatever your cutting to unstick the blade and extract the saw.

The last tree trunk the husky ate through like it was butter (similar trunk size to the picture above).... I think this tree must be "sappier", so it's driving me bloody crazy

seeya,
Shane L.

I'd just push all that **** pine into a pile and burn the lot😊

Does the chain spin freely on the bar if you move it by hand (with thick gloves on).??

Or are you saying that the chain spins freely...and cuts well...., but that the bar gets pinched in the log?

If the chain spins freely by hand..and it is just a matter of the bar getting pinched I could only suggest....
1. The log has pressure on it which closes it up as it cuts(the way it is laying on ground etc)
2. Burr's on the bar which need filing down
3. A warped bar

If the chain doesn't spin freely...tip sprocket, bar groove or drive sprocket jamming with material.