Putting budget bars aside, using Quality Oil, with Quality Bars and Chains, you should get long life out of you Bars and Chains, just keep the chains out of the Rocks, Dirt and Metal
Doug
Nothing like a nice rocked out chain to kill the fun. Hit a nail buried in a cherry tree with a new RS chain once, I wasn't a happy camper having to file a bunch of new tooth away to fix it. Up side is she cut better after getting a nice hand file job on it.