Sethro
Heathen
How many of you cut bar oil in the cold weather months with automatic transmission fluid?
Cutting bar oil?
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GASoline71
Mr. Nice Guy
I don't...
Gary
Gary
2000ssm6
Stihl User
No
The heat from the engine gets the bar oil warm. Maybe if it were 20 below....
The heat from the engine gets the bar oil warm. Maybe if it were 20 below....
crazymanmike
ArboristSite Operative
I do only on the coldest days and it works very well. We may have to delv into the pros and cons of doing so. Should make a great thread. 
I have seen a few loggers use diesel fuel 12oz to a gallon of summer bar oil..
They would warm the bar oil then mix it..
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They would warm the bar oil then mix it..
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IchWarriorMkII
ArboristSite Guru
Nope. Tried a bit of the winter blend bar oil... I keep it in the truck or house (regular bar oil) so its up to temp for the first tank of fuel. After that, I figure the remainder of oil in the tank, and the heat of the motor warms it up just fine.
Sethro
Heathen
What about pouring? Let me geuss. You put the bar oil jug on the skidder manifold
Haywire Haywood
Fiscal Conservative Social Retard
It doesn't get real cold here but I put a quart of 5w30 generic oil in a partial jug of Stihl stuff last winter and it did thin it down some.
Ian
Ian
crazymanmike
ArboristSite Operative
I have mixed diesel, saw gas, trany fluid, 5 weight, solvent, hydrualic fluid and mazola corn oil. They all work for thinning the lubricant.
CMM
CMM
2000ssm6
Stihl User
Not quite, but a good idea. Maybe right on the turbo? LOL
It was 76F here today and it is December!!!! It doesn't get very cold here but a few jugs in the floor board of the truck while Im on the way to a job works.
I usually don't start using winter blend oil till it gets below freezing. Even then I mix it for the most part. If you can't tell when the bar oil needs thinned you should probaly not be using a saw.
GASoline71
Mr. Nice Guy
Lakeside53
Stihl Wrenching
crazymanmike
ArboristSite Operative
That oil came out of the ground, it can go back in. :biggrinbounce2: :biggrinbounce2:
Lakeside53
Stihl Wrenching
Ok. make it worse; tell me you use old engine oil
NOTHING, I say again NOTHING, pisses me off more than working on a saw that's been using sump oil... I pad the bills accordingly.
NOTHING, I say again NOTHING, pisses me off more than working on a saw that's been using sump oil... I pad the bills accordingly.
crazymanmike
ArboristSite Operative
Used oil is fine, I just strain the big chunks out.
CMM
CMM
GASoline71
Mr. Nice Guy
Mike has been known to steal the oil out of the fryers at the local taverns too...
So if it smells like chicken and jo-jo's out where you are cuttin'... it's prolly just Mike.
Gary
So if it smells like chicken and jo-jo's out where you are cuttin'... it's prolly just Mike.
Gary
Wood Junkie
ArboristSite Operative
Ok. make it worse; tell me you use old engine oil
NOTHING, I say again NOTHING, pisses me off more than working on a saw that's been using sump oil... I pad the bills accordingly.
There's a guy in our group that does that....makes for an ugly lookin saw not to mention improper maintenance..... kind of like those who never change the filter on their cars until they start rusting.....
Lakeside53
Stihl Wrenching
The part I do enjoy is selling them a new oil pump... filthy crap and unlike "clean" oil", toxic waste.
gatkeper1
ArboristSite Guru
I can't be bothered mixing my own secret concoction of winter oils
I spring for the extra buck and buy the Stihl winter bar oil.
It is the only Stihl product I use.
I spring for the extra buck and buy the Stihl winter bar oil.
It is the only Stihl product I use.
