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Bark's always thin higher up the tree-Less wobble. Less leverage on the joints. Less likely to stab yourself, and if you do, less likely to be as deep. Maple, alder, willow, madrona, walnut, geary oak. All good, or better, with pole gaffs, IMO. A lot of conifers, too. Cedar isn't really thick...

I've heard of taking a Sharpie marker and marking the surface to be filed before starting as a guide to know how much you've done. I dunno. I just do a tiny bit. My ex-lineman friend that gave me the hone stone would touch his up just a bit, regularly. Always spiking into hard poles. Trees...

I'm in the pole gaff club, too. Maybe its not, but seems like a gaff filing guide is like a saw filing guide, IME, unnecessary. My experience filing gaffs is very limited. Only a touch-up very rarely. Perhaps I'd need them razor sharp if I climbed more rock hard trees, or need to file more if I...

I thought you just take the raker file out of your tool box and make a light stroke or two. My ex-lineman friend gave me a small hone stone and told me not to use a file. Just a little bit every once in a while.