STIHL has extended its range of service kits for chainsaws, which covers many professional machines, enabling arborists and forestry professionals to carry out simple routine engine maintenance themselves, ensuring maximum machinery uptime for the task at hand.

Recently introduced for the forestry MS 261 C-M petrol chainsaw, Stihl’s service kits are intended to make routine maintenance quicker and easier, allowing forestry professionals to not only maintain the optimum chainsaw performance, but also increase the tool’s reliability and longevity.

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Stihl’s service kits contain everything needed to carry out routine servicing on a Stihl petrol chainsaw engine. The service kits include an air filter, spark plug and fuel filter. The kits also come with a QR code and short URL so users can quickly access how-to videos that provide step-by-step instructions for replacing the air filter, spark plug and fuel filter.

21 variants of service kit are available, covering the most popular Stihl petrol chainsaws as well as KombiTools, hedge trimmers and brushcutters.

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