Thread: Tungsten tip chain

i avoid the bottom 8 to ten feet of mango trees. Sure we miss a lot of large log but the nails. bolts, stone etc is a sure chain killer.

I hope you can post your pics of the slabs so we can admire your perseverence.

Originally Posted by redmower

i avoid the bottom 8 to ten feet of mango trees. Sure we miss a lot of large log but the nails. bolts, stone etc is a sure chain killer.

I hope you can post your pics of the slabs so we can admire your perseverence.

thay are some wise words as I have found out. but I am not one to quit a job I have started and the slabs are just lovely (Bar the steel) I will post some photos when I figer out how to lol

Currie,

it won't help much now, but traditionally if a mango didn't flower and thus produce fruit, the old fix was it needed iron - this was then retrospectively proven by driving a handful of nails into the tree and BINGO it flowered then produced fruit - so it must have needed iron...

Most likely, by driving nails into the tree it was 'shocked' from the damage and as a natural preservation response it flowered to try and propagate a new tree...

Given how much trash is in the tree, why use tungsten chain? isn't it ridiculously expensive and the tungsten teeth brittle? I'd rather hit metal with my slabbing chain on my Lucas than with my tungsten sawblade...

I see you are using a 1400 bar, but what width are the slabs? Lucas recommend 5 skip for slabs over 750 wide and 3 skip for slabs under 750mm - I'm a bit surprised you have a 2 skip chain as compared to a 3 or 5 skip, was it a custom loop?

Originally Posted by Sigidi

Currie,

it won't help much now, but traditionally if a mango didn't flower and thus produce fruit, the old fix was it needed iron - this was then retrospectively proven by driving a handful of nails into the tree and BINGO it flowered then produced fruit - so it must have needed iron...

Most likely, by driving nails into the tree it was 'shocked' from the damage and as a natural preservation response it flowered to try and propagate a new tree...

Given how much trash is in the tree, why use tungsten chain? isn't it ridiculously expensive and the tungsten teeth brittle? I'd rather hit metal with my slabbing chain on my Lucas than with my tungsten sawblade...

I see you are using a 1400 bar, but what width are the slabs? Lucas recommend 5 skip for slabs over 750 wide and 3 skip for slabs under 750mm - I'm a bit surprised you have a 2 skip chain as compared to a 3 or 5 skip, was it a custom loop?

sigidi
the tru length of the bar is 1680 or a 66 inch and the slabs I'm cutting are 1400 trimed up to sute the jig the reason I am using the tunston 2skip chain is when I perchised the saws ,Alaskan jigg ,chaiins ,chocks bars and wedges a few years a go it come with 3 2 skip tungten tip chains ,amongst others and I asked the old timer I bourt them and what thay where used for he told me only use them on old brige timbers (sand ) and trees within 50m of a building (steel and nails ) but I gess he was Rong or misinformed and will look for of 5 skip on the Net. A idea struk me to day use a metal detector and try remove most the steel first? Eny ways thank yous for your information it means a lot.

I always feel a little more comfortable milling the heads of Mango as opposed to the butt logs
Nails are never much fun but stones and anything geological are just as bad,if not worse
The Lucas chain seems to carve through the nails alright
But every tooth will be sheared if i hit metal with the blade
Horrible sound that...MM