Power issues

[Chippydan28]

Yeah I totally agree. The systainers are good but most of the tools are a bit flimsy

 

[Chippydan28]

For £700 pounds on an m rated extractor and £400 on a saw i shouldn't be pushing any boundaries or it should just work flawlessly if I hadn't used them so much id bring them back. What doesn't help is all the fan boys on YouTube. Maffel dont have the same issues neither do hilti. Has anybody used the sword saw ? Does that have the same problem. Because it would be great for me when i do my oak framed porches. Im using a makita circular saw at the minute

 

[Big G]

We tried out a sword saw and was very impressed with its capability, used it for cutting to length 330 x 160 Douglas fir beams, never missed a beat and it was used all day for almost a month, problem is, as with all chainsaws, you have to keep the blade sharp otherwise it struggles and it costs a small fortune in replacement blades. Maybe when the time arrives we will buy a couple but at the moment we are into the mafell 260 sword saw which is a monster of a machine but 3 or 4 times the price of the festool, other point to consider is ripping, with the standard blade it is hard work but from memory the rep told us they do a special blade for ripping although I would say the problem was with the power of the tool not the blade.

 

[Chippydan28]

Iv got a chainsaw  and an alaskan mil for mill oak trees. For ripping just file the teeth at 10 degrees. Can you not refile the festool chain ? Look at the granberg chain shapener it a little 12volt filing machine it's about £70 its the best tool ever. Iv been considering the maffel portable bandsaw buy I thought id try the sword saw as its way cheaper

 

[Big G]

Festool chains can be resharpened but for the project we used it on we just changed the chain when it dulled, probably used 10 plus chains a day, it takes literally minutes to change the blade and all the used chains were resharpened by our tool professor every day, not a job i would want to do anyway. Don't  have the same trouble with Mafell as they provide us with CT chaînes which last for months. Although we didn't use Festool chains the ones we used lasted for 5 or so sharpening sessions after which the prof said they were useless. Our business is a heavy user of chain saws so having CT chaînes is a must and the cost of replacement chaînes with the Festool saw is something you have to calculate, especially if you use the Festool chaînes which were about 3 times the cost of our chaînes.

 

[Chippydan28]

I guess as i would only be using it occasionally the festool would be ok ( i dont do that many porches ) have you got any experience with the maffel portable bandsaw by any chance ?