Originally Posted by
Exador
While I see where you;re coming from, Bob, I do wonder how much difference it makes to have the rakers perfect or otherwise. I used to spend as much time doing my rakers as my chain, being careful to get them just right, but a tree-lopper friend put me onto the idea of simply running them over with the chain grinder, which I now do about every third or fourth cutter touch-up. I simply take them down to a mm or so below the cutter and leave it at that. I sometimes file the front edge to round it off, but it doesn't seem to make a huge amount of difference to my saw or the cut if it's not done.
I do pay more attention to the lucas chain, but it's still only a matter of rounding off, rather than taking any great pains.
What sort of performance difference do you expect to see between my method (the rough-as-guts, she'll-be-right-mate way) and yours in crosscutting logs up to about 600 diameter?