Think you can salvage this chain?

[Ianab]

We were doing an official (OSH approved) chainsaw operators training course today.
Was interesting and the semi-retired tutor was good value.
He had this saw chain that a guy had once bought into his shop... and asked him to resharpen it 





He did tell us what the guy had done to it.. any guesses?

Ian

[dansaylor]

looks like he was trying to cut his truck into with it...lol

[mike_van]

Looks like an attempt at cutting concrete  :D

[wiam]

I don't know what he was trying to cut, but he did it for too long.

Will

[mike_van]

Or, it could be the new OSHA saftey chain, no sharp edges to cause injury  :D

[Kevin]

Did he try and sharpen it himself?

[Dan_Shade]

i'm gonna guess he had it on the bar backwards

[leweee]

Sharpened by a monkey with a large rock  smiley_dizzy

[Ianab]

Good guesses  :D

Apparantly he was cutting fibre cement building material with it... After a while it stopped cutting, so he reversed the chain and it cut OK backward.. for a little while  :
When it stopped he decided it must need sharpening and took it back to the shop  :D


Ian

[Tom]

Hmmm

I've got a bandsaw blade that looks a lot like that.  :D

Designing bands

[mike_van]

Tom, I had one just like yours!  Still remember it, 10 years ago a small tornado went through Ct., tore down what used to be The Cathederal Pines in Cornwall Ct. - White pines, 3' and up, 100 footers.  Near there I got a big one from a yard, in this huge log my blade screamed to a stop.  Chop, cut, you know -  I thought it was a file handle it was so hard, turned out to be about 2"  of the end of an awl.  Every tooth, stacked up on it.  >:(