Homeowner or occasional user maintenance schedule

[Monkeyhanger]

...First we need some family history. My grandmother was born in Normandy in 1925. She moved here in 1945 after WWII. I have heard countless story's of Germany's occupation of her country. Not one of them is good. Most are downright terrifying.

ok Chuckinohio and especially Stonykill, it seems you're confusing me with a German trying to start a fight...

let's just get something straight here. I asked a question in an exaggerated (probably due to my English sense of humour) way to make the point more clear. I NEVER said you actually do change oil that often but that to us it seems almost that way. Don't just read the words, try and understand what they are trying to say to you.

I suggest you also go to your local library and look up the word "humour" or better still "sense of humour" then do a search on ebay and see if you can buy yourself one. I did say "change your oil... ...attitude", so again go to the library and look up the word "attitude". Don't bother to search for an attitude on ebay, you already seem to have one.

Anyway on to your German comments. If you look carefully to the left of this post you may see a strange red and white flag. Go to your library and ask for a book about flags. Look for this red and white flag and which country it belongs to. In fact don't bother I'll tell you. It is the St. George Cross which is the flag of England. Oh dear, I am in fact English. This strangely enough means that many of my ancestors and their relatives died in France trying to save your people from the horror of having to wear lederhosen, eat weisswurst and listen to blasmusik. In fact my Grandfather had a couple of swimming lessons in the North Atlantic courtesy of the German Navy whilst transporting supplies to keep the war in europe from failing...

So back to the more serious answers.

@Computeruser

Can you think of any reason why the Euro and Jap cars automatically get a short service intervall for America? It has nothing to do with the oil, filters or engines they are all designed for long intervalls. The only thing that I can think of as being the cause is cheap oil and tradition. Any other suggestions? This is a serious question, I really would like to know.


Bye

 

[ChuckinOhio]

The Kraut crack was out of line, and for that I will apologize.

I took what you said as yet another European who would find fault with how I put my pants on in the morning solely because I am an American. Chalk that up to a knee jerk reaction(Note to self-Engage brain then type)

I stand corrected.

Now as to the oil change thing-

American auto manufacturers have a nasty habit of not covering repairs under the warranty of the auto if you have not maintained the auto in their proscribed fashion. Alot of folks save the receipts from their all too frequent oil changes as proof of this maintenance being performed in case of a motor failure during the waranty period.
Is this a collusion between Detroit and Big Oil, probably. but that said, there isn't really any way around it as we are so auto dependent.

Once again, in the spirit on international cooperation,

You all still drive funny little dinky cars though !!

Chuck

 

[Monkeyhanger]

The Kraut crack was out of line, and for that I will apologize.

Hi,

thanks for that. It seems to me that the cause of this oil thing is more historical/political rather than technical. Interesting.

By the way, here are the "mean machines" that I have to drive at the moment:

Mean Machine 1

Mean Machine 2



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[RiverRat2]

Mean MACHINE # 2

Cool!!!!!!!!

 

[stonykill]

The Kraut crack was out of line, and for that I will apologize.

I took what you said as yet another European who would find fault with how I put my pants on in the morning solely because I am an American. Chalk that up to a knee jerk reaction(Note to self-Engage brain then type)

I stand corrected.

Now as to the oil change thing-

American auto manufacturers have a nasty habit of not covering repairs under the warranty of the auto if you have not maintained the auto in their proscribed fashion. Alot of folks save the receipts from their all too frequent oil changes as proof of this maintenance being performed in case of a motor failure during the waranty period.
Is this a collusion between Detroit and Big Oil, probably. but that said, there isn't really any way around it as we are so auto dependent.

Once again, in the spirit on international cooperation,

You all still drive funny little dinky cars though !!

Chuck

you pretty much summed up how I took it. The whole changing toothbrushes comment explains my British friends teeth now:hmm3grin2orange: , as for monkee, I took the text as America bashing, plain and simple. Guess I don't get the humour in putting down others, my bad.:deadhorse:

 

[Monkeyhanger]

Guess I don't get the humour in putting down others, my bad.:deadhorse:

Hi,

you still don't "get it". I wasn't putting anybody down. Never have done and probably never will.

Bye

 

[stonykill]

ok Chuckinohio and especially Stonykill, it seems you're confusing me with a German trying to start a fight...

let's just get something straight here. I asked a question in an exaggerated (probably due to my English sense of humour) way to make the point more clear. I NEVER said you actually do change oil that often but that to us it seems almost that way. Don't just read the words, try and understand what they are trying to say to you.

I suggest you also go to your local library and look up the word "humour" or better still "sense of humour" then do a search on ebay and see if you can buy yourself one. I did say "change your oil... ...attitude", so again go to the library and look up the word "attitude". Don't bother to search for an attitude on ebay, you already seem to have one.

Anyway on to your German comments. If you look carefully to the left of this post you may see a strange red and white flag. Go to your library and ask for a book about flags. Look for this red and white flag and which country it belongs to. In fact don't bother I'll tell you. It is the St. George Cross which is the flag of England. Oh dear, I am in fact English. This strangely enough means that many of my ancestors and their relatives died in France trying to save your people from the horror of having to wear lederhosen, eat weisswurst and listen to blasmusik. In fact my Grandfather had a couple of swimming lessons in the North Atlantic courtesy of the German Navy whilst transporting supplies to keep the war in europe from failing...

So back to the more serious answers.

@Computeruser

Can you think of any reason why the Euro and Jap cars automatically get a short service intervall for America? It has nothing to do with the oil, filters or engines they are all designed for long intervalls. The only thing that I can think of as being the cause is cheap oil and tradition. Any other suggestions? This is a serious question, I really would like to know.


Bye

seems we have a failure to communicate. I am not sure where you got the idea we change our oil on every fill up, or top off our water at every fill up either, but I don't know anyone who does either. Not sure where you get your ideas of who we Americans are. If its from Hollywood, that might as well be a different country. they don't represent most of us. Neither does our news media. So I guess my point is, unless you live here, you don't know us, no more than I know you simply because I have 2 British friends who now live in the states. Blanket statements about any one nation, from another nation simply piss me off. We are all the same ...really, just live in different parts of the world. That was all my statement to you was meant to say, doesn't matter if you're German, English, or whatever. You missed that point, and thats fine.

Lets get back to chainsaws.:deadhorse:

 

[Monkeyhanger]

Lets get back to chainsaws.:deadhorse:

Ok,

its obvious you haven't understood a thing I've written.

so back to chainsaws it is...


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[JUDGE1162]

As much as this hijacked post is fun to read, I would love to try to redirect it back to the first question (got some great answer ealier and thanks for the replies)

Is there a maintenace schedule based on hours compared to days, weeks, months or should these tasks be done on the weekly/monthly schedule regardless of the amout of use the saw gets?

 

[Monkeyhanger]

As much as this hijacked post is fun to read...

Hi,

well I do daily stuff daily as suggested, the weekly stuff monthly apart from the lubing the clutch bearings (I do those weekly) and the rest I do yearly. That should keep things relatively in line with the maintenance schedule, for full time use, looking at the hours run on the saws. Sparks plugs are changed when the electrodes start to show wear.

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[JUDGE1162]

lubing the clutch bearings how do you do this my manual say drip oil into the bearing but I am not sure where? how much? should it be moving? what type of oil?

 

[Monkeyhanger]

lubing the clutch bearings how do you do this...

Hi,

on my 346XPG and 357XPG I just use a grease gun on the hole in the crankshaft. I take the clutch off my MS460 and clean and grease it by hand. I always use a good heat resistant bearing grease on the clutch bearings rather than oil.

Bye

 

[stonykill]

Hi,

well I do daily stuff daily as suggested, the weekly stuff monthly apart from the lubing the clutch bearings (I do those weekly) and the rest I do yearly. That should keep things relatively in line with the maintenance schedule, for full time use, looking at the hours run on the saws. Sparks plugs are changed when the electrodes start to show wear.

Bye

pretty much what monkee said. Some of it to me also depends on where you store your saw. If its in a damp, unheated shed, you may want to do the maintenece a little more often. Also if your cutting time involves cutting in snow, in the rain, various adverse conditions, do the monthly more often. As for the spark plug, if I think it needs to be checked, I replace it and save the removed plug as a backup. Plugs are cheap, and vital to the saws performance.