Bar Oil Hoarding Thread

I hope I didn't come across as cranky in any of my earlier replies, I was just trying to show it's hard to find real savings or deals where I am.

 

Remember when liquor was smuggled across the Detroit river? I think I need to smuggle some affordable bar oil the other direction.

 

Rural King email I got today showing B&C oil for $6.99

 

must.. resist..

 

Good deal, that's what we bought it for in Mt Vernon, OH in Oct while at Walt's

 

Farm and Fleet has one gal Mystik bar oil for $ 7.49 on sale.

 

How much in your current stock pile?

 

Our Rural King had always had Cam2 before, but now they've swiched over to Gard. I was disappointed as I had gone over to stock up on Cam2 on sale at $6.99, because I had about settled on it as a good all-around, all season (affordable) oil. I bought a case of Gard but have not yet tried it in the field. Testing it informally, at the same settled temperatures, Gard runs on a sloped surface quicker, but dipping and lifting a string with a finger tip shows it to be noticeably more tacky than Cam2. Huh.

Anybody use Gard enough to have an opinion?

 

I am giving xtreme away for Christmas presents. Don’t tell the recipients that I don’t like it. Hush emoji

 

Why don't you like it? We're using our older 5qt jugs of extreme now, seems pretty thick and tacky to me...

 

It’s too tacky for my liking. Lots of derby sticks to the bar and case.

 

Tsc has there summer oil on sale for 6.99 a gallon
But there winter oil is 18.99 a gallon and runnings has stihl winter oil for 22

 

Gotcha

 

I use the thinner oil from TSC as winter oil. I've never understood why "winter oil" seems to be always priced higher than "all season" oil.

 

I bought a couple of jugs of that on sale once. I ended up mixing it in at about 30% to "tacky up" some of my thinner oil. It reminds me of the Karo-syrup-thick bar oil we used so much when I was a kid in our old Homelites, McCullochs, and Lombards, but it seems the more modern saws do better on thinner oils (which is still hard for me to get used to, after all these years!).

 

Last jug I got was $12 and I was happy to get that price. Least I've paid for it was $7/gal (Jonsered branding), highest was $15 (Husqvarna branding). Using some Makita winter at the moment. Should have bought more of theirs when I could. Only got a case of summer and winter each.

 

I put B&C oil in smaller transparent plastic bottles with spouts. The oil bought at RK has sediment in the bottom. Never ever saw any sediment in County Line from Tractor Supply. Probably a non-issue, just an observation. I’ve been amazed over the years what lurks at the bottom of motor oil jugs especially since HD is supposed to keep things suspended

 

Has anybody seen Cam2 bar oil at Rural King lately? I used to buy a lot of it there, but the one here near home (relatively speaking) has switched to Gard brand, which is a little tackier but a fair bit thinner. For a long time they sold both together; maybe they were closing out their Cam2? I hope not... I thought it was a good oil at a decent price.