Category: Maintenance

Bar and chain oil is a separate lubricant from engine oil, applied continuously during cutting to reduce friction and heat between the chain and bar — running a chainsaw without it, even briefly, causes rapid and often irreversible bar and chain damage. Checking and refilling the …

A dull or damaged blade is one of the most common causes of poor cut quality and wasted logs on a portable sawmill, and blade replacement is routine maintenance rather than an occasional repair — most bandsaw mill blades need replacement or resharpening well before the …