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Then you should be a pro at "good oil at a fair price". Do tell. What's your recommendation ?
tractor supply in pa and on LI i get it in 55 gallons drums
Then you should be a pro at "good oil at a fair price". Do tell. What's your recommendation ?
You use Veg. Oil as Engine Oil in your truck ? WHOA !!!
tractor supply in pa and on LI i get it in 55 gallons drums
You use Veg. Oil as Engine Oil in your truck ? WHOA !!!
Ok, you guys can start yelling at me because lately I have been using used engine oil instead. My car is brand new and just changed the oil for the first time. The oil looked brand new so I figured it was better than the syrup looking summer grade bar oil I had laying around.
no got 2 drums for $ 4 bucks a gallonHow much for a drum? Do they have a similar deal by the five gallon bucket? I'm getting it here by the jug, 7 bucks when it goes on sale, which is most of the time.
Holy crap, $18 a gallon!!!
When it was selling for $11 a gallon I found a stihl dealer selling it for $6 a gallon still. Needless to say I asked how much oil he had, I left with about 20 gallons.
What a investment, who's investments went up 3x in the past 4 years?
Ok, you guys can start yelling at me because lately I have been using used engine oil instead. My car is brand new and just changed the oil for the first time. The oil looked brand new so I figured it was better than the syrup looking summer grade bar oil I had laying around.
Knowing how much pressure can be placed on a bar and how thin the oil can get from heat, I would expect problems to show up using engine oil.
I'm no expert...
But a Husky 20" 3/8" .050 bar from Bailey's is $56.
I'm gonna guess not many people wearing out bars in less then 10 gallons of bar oil, nor do I think you'll see the effects showing up on chains which I'm guessing you'll sharpen away before you wear away.
So if there is an argument for premature wear of the wear parts...$60 is the the cost-benefit point. You're ahead of the game if buying a $60 bar saves you buying 11 $6 gallons of oil.
Nuff said.
I have gotten bit before by NOT matching the fluids. I've had quads for over 30 years. ALWAYS used a decent grade "regular" brand of 10W-30 Engine Oil for all the changes. Well 4 years ago I buy a branny new Honda Rincon. First oil change I do what I've always done, and put in a good grade of 10W-30. Started down the road, and IT WOULD NOT SHIFT, and the tranny slipped terribly. Too much of a coincidence, and I knew it had to be the oil. So I get the book out, and SURE ENOUGH, the type of clutch they put in those machines require a "special" oil. I'm sure others have that same "special" oil, but I buy it now from Honda, to the tune of almost $7/Quart. :eek2:
Thx fellers.
Just found this thread - it reminds me of somthing funny that I did last summer. Had changed the veg oil in my "Fry Daddy" cooker after it had darkened and burned a little and put the old oil in an old empty 1 gallon bar oil container to store in the garage awaiting the trip to the recycle place. A couple of weeks went by and I forgot all about the cooking oil in the bar oil container - I guess you can figure out what happened. I was cutting at a friend's piece of property in town and it was about 100 degrees out. As I filled the saw's oil resevoir, I remember thinking "Jee - this bar oil gets really thin when it gets hot out here". And after a few minutes of cutting I was thinking," Somebody must be having a cookout, because I can smell french fries". Finally I noticed that the chain seemed to be dragging a bit and it came to me - Always a treat when we can laugh at ourselves - which I did. Didn't hut anything, but prolly not a real good way to lube a bar and chain.
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