Bar and Chain Oil!

[Beetlejuice]

The holy grail of B&C oil is the % of "Tackifier " the purpose to make it stick like the proverbial S**te to the blanket the more it clings the better job it does Our tame oil supply guys supply extra "Tacifier for us to mix as required dependent on the job requirement we've found with the mechanical handling machine the use of extra goo up to around an extra 3% the lower wear rate on bar & chain is quite marked

Little AL, I believe everything you've said to be true. And I do notice a difference in chain performance. Not so much on the bar. I take care of my bar, but abuse the hell out of the chain. What I'm trying" unsuccessfully " to get across is $30 for bar oil. An earlier post ran cheap quarts of motor oil. This I did after giving up the $15 bar oil. That knocked it down to $11-$14.. My local maker sells loops for my 24 inch bar at just about $30.. Discounted if I'm nice.. Have yet to get the discount price.. Go figure.. It's a trade-off to me. Free oil, new chain.,,$10-$15 gal., oil-new chain after what? Say, 10 gallons? I all depends.. I really like to see if I can saw through iron for some reason. Basketball hoops, horse shoes, railroad spikes, fencing, and the like...my next experiment is seeing if I can barrel through a metal detector. So, what works for me is totally taboo for other people.. Other people being the PROs. I am not a pro by a long shot, and will not become a pro.. I hope to just keep getting better and leave nothing behind when I go, as in, fingers, toes, arms and legs. Only legacy I will.leave I hope is a bad memory and rotten taste in everybody's mouth.

 

[Canyon Angler]

What else am I supposed to do with the oil from tractor/car/splitter/small 4-stoke engine servicing? It came from the ground, it goes back to the ground, like we all do.

Why do Ukrainians dump drain oil into their flowerbeds?

To keep the guns from rusting, of course!

 

[lambs]

What else am I supposed to do with the oil from tractor/car/splitter/small 4-stoke engine servicing? It came from the ground, it goes back to the ground, like we all do.

But would you drink it? Someone probably is.

 

[Ted Jenkins]

I some times modify the oil pump to pump a little extra, but for most part my bars last for well past hundreds of cords of both hard and soft wood. What am I doing wrong? Usually 20 50wt keeps the bar from breaking down too much under warm conditions. Oil treatment will make oil more tacky, but why. Can a bar past more than a thousand cords of wood? Thanks

 

[Ted Jenkins]

What else am I supposed to do with the oil from tractor/car/splitter/small 4-stoke engine servicing? It came from the ground, it goes back to the ground, like we all do.

There is much evidence to indicate that petroleum did not come from just dinosaurs, but likely from trees or other vegetation do the math. It grew up on earth so put it back when done. What about all the used tires? Thanks

 

[Canyon Angler]

There is much evidence to indicate that petroleum did not come from just dinosaurs, but likely from trees or other vegetation do the math.

I don't think petroleum came from dinosaurs or vegetation, it came from diatoms and plankton in the ocean. Coal came from vegetation.

 

[ChoppyChoppy]

My firewood processor uses hydraulic oil for chain lube.

The first bar lasted about 1000hrs before it was worn out (groove not deep enough anymore and the drivers would bottom out)
It's nice that I never have to drain the hydraulic oil.

A harvester bar is around $80 and chain about $22, so roughly same as a chainsaw cost.

 

[RandyMac]

I used to mix my own, 4.5 gallons of good 30wt, 1 qt of ATF, 1 qt STP.

 

[Philbert]

I used to mix my own, 4.5 gallons of good 30wt, 1 qt of ATF, 1 qt STP.

Paprika to taste. . . ?

Philbert

 

[KiwiBro]

What about all the used tires? Thanks

Can they be melted down for tackifier? If not, burn 'em. By doing so it saves a few trees and instead of the toxins being concentrated in the tire, they are sucked into the atmosphere as smoke and dispersed as rain over a wider area so as to not be harmful in lower concentrations.

 

[RandyMac]

Paprika to taste. . . ?

Philbert

A touch of saffron for color.

 

[grizz55chev]

Oil threads are as useless as mini macs, not worth the time to toss em in the trash!

 

[Ted Jenkins]

I don't think petroleum came from dinosaurs or vegetation, it came from diatoms and plankton in the ocean. Coal came from vegetation.

Great theory at least it is mathematically possible. Or maybe it came from an earlier climate change. Thanks

 

[RandyMac]

Oil threads are as useless as mini macs, not worth the time to toss em in the trash!

and yet, here you are

 

[grizz55chev]

and yet, here you are

No only that, I worked on a mini mac today!

 

[RandyMac]

No only that, I worked on a mini mac today!

everybody makes mistakes, I owned stihls at one time, took 3 tries before I got the message.

 

[grizz55chev]

everybody makes mistakes, I owned stihls at one time, took 3 tries before I got the message.

Nobody’s perfect.

 

[dmb2613]

I feel sure that Californians as a hole are smart people, But some are so far out in left field They miss the whole ballgame and if you cant run a Stihl get an axe most anyone can run one of them

 

[RandyMac]

I feel sure that Californians as a hole are smart people, But some are so far out in left field They miss the whole ballgame and if you cant run a Stihl get an axe most anyone can run one of them

Who are you addressing?
It is as a whole.

 

[dmb2613]

what are you a school teacher lol as a complete unit not a hole in the ground but you knew that