What size bar are you running?
It’s cold today - bar oil
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Like svk said, the drier wood will soak up more oil. How much oil was left when you ran out of fuel? Most of my stihls are at around half empty after a tank of fuel. My saws with the AO are about a quarter. If I can pull up the chain and see oil film on the drivers I'm satisfied.
I’d say probably a quarter left after a tank of fuel. Consuming enough that I wasn’t overly worried. Bar wasn’t smoking or anything.
Just tough to see much if any wetness on the drivers...especially in that ash. Also the chain gets kind of a “baked on” oil/sawdust appearance.
I have noticed that baked on crap after cuttin ash. Not sure what's up with that.
That’s good to hear. It looked pretty weird.
Would it be good practice to do some occasional “piss revs” out of the wood when cutting dry stuff? Maybe wet things down without the dust immediately soaking it up?
Last wood I cut with my 462 was ash. Is this the baked on crap?
Looks like it. Was more pronounced on the chain in my case.
Sap like that comes from various woods. The worst I had seen was cutting blowdown white oak at my uncle's former house. Also bad with white ash and pine.
alleyyooper
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Cutting green cedar soaks up bar oil too.
Al
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I cut only in the winter months here and buy winter grade all year round W-20 at Sam's club by the case at about $6.50 per gallon.. Back in the winter of 2017 I bought a new Dolmar 5105 when I got it home on Saturday afternoon it was very cold the next morning it was -22. I really wanted to try the saw but I also had the entire week off so I thought I would wait maybe it would warm up. I went to look at the forecast for that week and It was not supposed to get above -10 all week .
So I loaded the saw and went to work it was -17 on Sunday morning at 7am I will never forget it. It was that way every day that week by the second fuel up the oil kind of "stacked "into the tank in long thick ribbons instead of poured,.. it was so thick . At every fill up all week though the oil was always gone so even in the extreme cold it was being put out.
So I loaded the saw and went to work it was -17 on Sunday morning at 7am I will never forget it. It was that way every day that week by the second fuel up the oil kind of "stacked "into the tank in long thick ribbons instead of poured,.. it was so thick . At every fill up all week though the oil was always gone so even in the extreme cold it was being put out.
Huskybill
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My dealer had bar oil in 55 gallon drums. If I remember correctly his summer oil was 30 at and the winter oil was 20 wt. if my business grew any bigger I was thinking about 55 gallon drums of bar oil, hydraulic oil, motor oils, gear oils.
There used to be a McCulloch dealer near me and he had a 50 gal barrel of something he sold as "Sticky Stuff" you mixed it 50 / 50 with used motor oil.
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