FAQ

This is a collection of the most common questions we have been asked. If you have specific question, start by going through these answers. This has become a typical way of disseminating information over the Internet. If you cannot find the answer to just your question, ask us directly using the form at the bottom of the page.

1. Is the Stack Cutter exclusively for sawing wood or can you saw other materials as well?

Answer: Answer: Naturally it’s possible to other items than board stacks. We have worked with paper bales at paper mills, rubber fenders for icebreakers and ice blocks for the Jukkasjärvi ice hotel in northern Sweden. We’ve also cut large polyurethane pipes and pieced plastic waste into large blocks. One of our Norwegian customers cuts building material like plaster and plywood sheets.

You need to remember that some materials wear the chain harder than other and can require more frequent filing. For sawing plaster and paper you’ll need a hard-metal chain.

Contact Logosol for information about the material you’re thinking of sawing.

2. I have sawed quite a bit with a guide bar cutter. Sometimes the result is really good, but often the error is several centimetres off, especially on the tip side. What makes it possible for you to talk about a ± 2 mm tolerance?

Answer: If you’re getting errors as large as several centimetres, you’ve either not been sufficiently careful in setting the machine up or you’ve sawed with a machine where something was wrong with the guide bar and chain.

In order to get an accuracy of ± 2 mm, you need steering on both the motor and the tip sides, a careful setting and perfectly trimmed cutting equipment (guide bar + chain).

3. How important is filing the chain?

Answer: It is possible to maintain high precision and even a reasonable economy in cutting stacks by simply buying a new chain when the old one no longer can meet the demands you set (100-200 cuts per chain).

A correctly filed or ground chain is just as good as a new one. Still, Logosol recommends that you keep several new chains on hand should you for some reason not succeed when you sharpen the chains.