Bar grove and cover cleaning tool

[ArlyA]

Here is the bar grove cleaner and cover brush I found after years of looking for one. The metal cleaning hook had to be ground down a bit to fit in the baby sized groove in all my saws. Who can guess what these brush's are really made for?? First photo is one in my saw box and I have like 6 of these.

 

[oldballs]

I use a rigid copper wire of 12 gauge etc. to make a good bar grove cleaning tool.

 

[ArlyA]

I use a rigid copper wire of 12 gauge etc. to make a good bar grove cleaning tool.

What so you use to clean out the cover?

 

[KennK]

That's a very grippy handled hoof pick ... for cleaning horse hooves.

 

[oldballs]

What so you use to clean out the cover?

Darn it......I've never thought about cleaning out the rigid Stihl plastic cover........Hum-m-m-

Cheers and Happy New Year.
Mike

 

[ArlyA]

When I went through sawyer school they talked about the importance of cleaning out the bar grove of debris and getting that cover saw chip muck out to help it get out of there. That little brush has been nice and I use it every time the cover comes off..

They have them on Amazoie for $8. I get the blue one for better visibility.

 

[5030]

Use the end of my raker gage or a hacksaw blade and compressed air to clean the crap from under the clutch cover as well as the bar groove. I run Carleton roller nose (replaceable) bar ends that are greaseable.... and I flip my bars over each time I put on a new sharpened loop.

 

[ArlyA]

Use the end of my raker gage or a hacksaw blade and compressed air to clean the crap from under the clutch cover as well as the bar groove. I run Carleton roller nose (replaceable) bar ends that are greaseable.... and I flip my bars over each time I put on a new sharpened loop.

We rarly get to clean out saws at home.

 

[5030]

Whatever.

 

[ArlyA]

To add, this is the saw supply box that goes into the field with us.