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Yep, that pretty much sums up exactly what I was experiencing. I had the most trouble when making the felling cuts - bucking was not quite as bad.

Well I grew up in maple syrup county and in fact lived almost right next to one of the largest single producers in the country. They tapped thousands of trees each spring and actually used modified chainsaws that had drill chucks threaded on where the clutch would normally attach to drill the...

Well, I guess I'll give that a try and see how it works... The trouble is, I probably wouldn't be able to find out if I managed to get it right until I get back to the area where I ran into the problem. The elm and maple around my place don't fight back like that.;) Thanks for all the advice...

So am I hearing that perhaps using the next larger diameter file might help? It seems like that would cause more of a "(" shape - instead of "c" shape and it would also make it less "pointy" To answer the question of what chain I was running on the 345... it was narrow kerf VPX on a 16 inch...

Yes, I should have mentioned that it wasn't just one tree. I ran into it several times over a weekend of cutting. There was one group of maples that I had trouble with every one of them - even small 6 and 8 inch would present the same issue. Those little ones didn't always stop the saw but...

Well I'll have to give that a try the next time I'm working with that hard stuff. I have a couple of 45cc off brand saws that I keep as spares and I could set up one of those with the less aggressive/higher rakers and try it once. Thanks for all the suggestions! Paul

Hi Jed, Well the 345 certainly had been hand filed, and I know that I have a tendency to get into the side plates. But the little Echo had a new chain. I've never used a square grind chain...the Husky is running narrow kerf semi-chisel. Not sure if they offer square grind in narrow kerf...

Wow, that's amazing - even with a 395! Well I guess it's no wonder then that I could have problems with those little saws. I just had never run into it before. Thanks for all the input guys. Paul

Thanks Mick, I just never ran into that in the past - but I cut mostly elm and oak around home . Good suggestion on the sprockets - worth a check. Paul

Well okay then, well I guess I can cross that one off the list...:)

Is it possible that the excessive chattering may have been causing the anti-kickback mechanism to engage the chain brake without me realizing it?

Okay, thanks for the input guys. I don't know... the only other time I've had a saw chattering as bad as it was in these maples was early on when I tried filing the rakers down (and didn't have a clue what I was doing...lol) I had them too low and that caused the saw to chatter about like this...

Hi Peter, I did have my 372XP with full skip on a 24 inch bar but heck it was only a 12 inch tree and it was a long walk back to road... That seemed like way more saw than I would need for what we had expected to run into.

This fall I was helping cut firewood in an area that contains hard maple (no hard maple around my property) and ran into problems. I was cutting with my little Echo CS-352 and found that it was really chattering in the cut and then it would just stop the chain dead. It seems like the teeth of...