Can't help but be curious as to whether any other commercial chainsaw wielder's in this industry are as anal about chainsaw maintenance as I've been for the last four decades?
In other words every time I fuel my saw, I blowout my air cleaner,
It's surroundings and the fuel caps, as well as sharpening the chain by hand, be it just a few swipes to stat razor sharp, or four or five if shiny dull.
IME the very first maintenance item after running out of fuel on the ground is sharpening the chain.
Why you ask? Because a hot chain's more malleable to a sharp file than a cold chain by a considerable factor.
Funny that I only wear gloves sharpening hot chain, but not cold chains.
I read many threads where pro loggers only get a few years out of their professional grade saw's, whereas I myself got a decade of use out of an old 032, and two decades of use from from two 365 husky's runnin to this very day on original pistons n rings!
Costs me a lot of money for compressed CO2 in my tooltruck to be so meticulous, but my saw's apparently love it!
I've been runnin racin gas at 110 octane with Stihl's silver bottle synthetic mix for the last five years and all my old saw's love it, along with my new 461.
Any other meticulous old farts out there?
Jomo
In other words every time I fuel my saw, I blowout my air cleaner,
It's surroundings and the fuel caps, as well as sharpening the chain by hand, be it just a few swipes to stat razor sharp, or four or five if shiny dull.
IME the very first maintenance item after running out of fuel on the ground is sharpening the chain.
Why you ask? Because a hot chain's more malleable to a sharp file than a cold chain by a considerable factor.
Funny that I only wear gloves sharpening hot chain, but not cold chains.
I read many threads where pro loggers only get a few years out of their professional grade saw's, whereas I myself got a decade of use out of an old 032, and two decades of use from from two 365 husky's runnin to this very day on original pistons n rings!
Costs me a lot of money for compressed CO2 in my tooltruck to be so meticulous, but my saw's apparently love it!
I've been runnin racin gas at 110 octane with Stihl's silver bottle synthetic mix for the last five years and all my old saw's love it, along with my new 461.
Any other meticulous old farts out there?
Jomo