Anyone who's ever used a chainsaw to mill knows how quickly the sawdust builds up. Normally I use my air compressor for a through cleaning but I worked until it was very late. Thinking I'd do a quick job before putting my saw away and finish cleaning it tomorrow I grabbed my leaf blower and a brush. The blower didn't have the long tube attached. Just brushing the saw and blowing it off with the leaf blower did a pretty good job. I'm penning this BECAUSE of two things. First. It's easy to toss a leaf blower in my trailer and before gassing or adding oil do a quick blow the saw around the oil and gas caps clean. AND second. Someone just might not have a good Air compressor on hand BUT might have a leaf blower. I'm glad I thought of this. One thing more. From experience, sometimes when we blow a saw off using any form of high velocity air ON SOME saws when you blow toward the saw from the muffler debris might find it's way under the top cover and around the carb area. I've found out that's the last place I clean before removing the air filter. I don't recommend blowing pressurized air on the air filter from the outside. It may be possible to blow fine dust through the filter and into the inside. I have found blowing ACROSS the filter moderately at a distance can benefit. But anyone who has just a blower and brush can do a pretty decent job of cleaning a saw. Every so often I'll remove the covers including pull rope and give my saw a good cleaning but any cleaning beats no cleaning. Good day.
