I'm going 40:1 then. I don't want the money I have tied up in saws to be wasted on trashed equipment.
Cause there is probably 50 ms660s sold for every 880 ! And not many firewood guys cut 4+ ft diameter wood consistly. I know thistle has some big Macs. Also they said who has an 880 here before when I said the something. Forget one guy here use to have one and one guy does. May be an 084 or 088 but there all the same cc.
Mdavlee has numerous large cc saws (a bunch of 90cc and an 880 (and prob many more that are not known about) Most people who have saws that large, have numerous saws. So they don't even bother with a Sig line. Heck, Guido Salvage would take an entire page up. if he had all his saws in his Sig
I liked the post even though the only way I can see it is in my email. For some reason I still can't see attachments of folks who have pics that are hosted elsewhere like photo bucket? Anyway is that an 088/880? Ans is that a 4 ft bar ?
41" on the 088. I did have a 3120 but didn't like it that good. I've had 4-066/660, 3-390xp, 2-394, 2-395, 4-288, 2100, p62, 655 BP, and a dolmar 9010. I think that's all of the big saws.
I run 40:1 in all my saws,whether the vintage Macs or the newer saws.Some of the factory manuals & sales brochures/catalogues I have that are from the mid 60's - mid 70's call for 40:1 on their saws.That was news to me.
Yeah...I agree. Doesn't cost much more. How do you mix it? The 50:1 was easy. 1 gallon gas can plus one bottle sized for a gallon
A couple places locally have 40:1 mix in little bottles.I normally mix 2 gallons at a time. 2.6oz per gallon of gas = 50:1. 40:1 is 3.2oz per gallon.
I think Randy aka mastermind just mixes 4oz to the gallon. I buy oil in pint bottles or so and have a bottle for pre mixing for the boat. You can mix one gallon or 20 or so. It has all the rates from like 25:1- 50:1. Pour oil in to the amount of gallons I want to mix and then fillwith gas then dump then refill to get all oil out of bottle then finish the gas jug off with that amount of fuel. I think some of the bottles also tell you how many gallons to put in it to get 40:1. OObviously not stihl as there just 50:1 now is all they push but I think the husky semi syn oil I buy has a chart ? I buy it cause its easy to get at lowes.
If I get to come then yes. For 40:1 mix .8 gallons of gas to a 1 gallon mix bottle. I buy oil by the quart and do 4 oz a gallon.
Can do the math easily. 40 oz of gas to 1 oz of oil. Just divide container of gas by 40. 128 oz in a gal. So 1 gal would be 128/40. That is 3.2... So 3.2 oz per gallon. I usually mix 5 gals at a time which would be 16 oz. or if I used the Stihl oil which is for 5 gals (12.8 oz) I would mix it with 4 gals of gasoline.
I think the .8 gallons to one little bottle is a good one for me. 4 gallons would be a ton for what I do. I like to keep that gas as fresh as possible.
Makes sense. .8 is 20% less than 1 and 40:1 is20% more oil than 50:1 so therefore you need to reduce gas to the same quantity of oil by 20% . Thus we arrive back at the .8 gallons of gas for the same little bottle to mix 1 gallon at 50:1. I know iI am reiterating what was said. But doing so in a different way to show those who may be confused , if any how this makes sense and works out.
Do you guys prefer 89 or 93 octane? It's peanuts over the course of a year I realize, but didn't know. Or are some of you tweakers running jet fuel?
