bar oil used oil or a mix what do you use!

Hey guys and gals, I've heard all sorts of people using all sorts of stuff for bar oil, i myself use a mix, I've heard of people using transmission fluid in the super cold I've heard a few different "bar"oils so i ask what do you use?

 

Used motor oil is full of a sorts of nasty crap. Metal particals, dirt, carbon and who knows what else.

Why spray that crap all over the woods?

 

I've met a few professional loggers that use it strait, say it doesn't give them problems at all, much cheaper as well. I only mix a quart of used to a gallon of good oil

 

I'm pretty sure that's what the previous owner of my 036 did. Took an awful lot of elbow grease to get it off of there. I'd never do it myself. Bar oil is cheap enough. I'm not going through gallons per week of the stuff.

Loggers tend to go through chainsaws pretty fast. I want to keep mine around for a while and looking halfway nice.

 

After working on three saws recently that had been fed a steady diet of used motor oil and never mantained I would recommend against it. Nasty stuff, not to mention all the metal debris and other trash screwing up the oil pump.

 

Regular stihl bar oil. I think both stihl and husky make a winter blend.

 

Ouch that's pretty nasty i can say neither of my saws look like that

 

I pay to much money for my saws to do something stupid like put used motor oil in them or even clean motor oil. Bar oil no matter the brand is cheap compared to the cost of new bars or oiler and chains.

Not to mention the fact it's slinging all over your wood that your going to bring into your home to burn. If the "pros"are using used motor oil then my guess is they aren't actually pro's just morons trying to make a quick dollar by cutting corners everywhere they can.

 

bar oil, even before i had a splitter and noodled a lot its not expensive compared to what the saws cost , tractor supply has sales for 6 or 7 dollars a gallon so thats when to stock up, stihl and husky are at least double that so i dont use those brands anymore and the only one i wont use is the walmart brand i think its thin like a winter blend but did not like it at all and it smelled bad almost like a burning smell.

 

They full of it too. The cheapest oil usually qts that I have seen around here is $3.49 ish and that's store brand special. By the time they buy two or three qts they already spent more than they would have if they got bar oil from tractor supply. I don't buy that motor oil new is cheaper in the long run than bar oil.

 

Guess I'm in the minority here.

I've been using used motor oil for nearly 20 years. Haven't had a problem yet. I store it in a 55 gallon drum and when I need oil, it gets run through a paint strainer. The bottom of the pick up tube is about 10" off the bottom of the drum which keeps the "nasty" stuff out of reach.

A couple times a year I'll run fresh motor oil through the saws, usually because I get busy I don't realize I'm out of filtered stuff and don't have time to wait for it. The last time I bought a drum of oil (in 2009) it was $340.00 or $1.55 a quart.

OK. Let the beatings begin.

 

I'm on the same program. 0 problems, 27 years.
About 8 years ago we built a biodiesel filtration system and now pull our bar oil out of that. Used oil, canola and hydraulic mix.
Settled 3 times , filtered twice.

 

I thought I was bad ............
I will mix some 5w-20 in with Echo bar oil (1 qt 5w-20 / 1 gallon bar oil) for the winter only

In the summer its straight Echo bar oil

 

They use used oil,they get tons of used oil from logging trucks, skidders, processers,there personal trucks and most times have to pay to get rid of it,using the used oil as bar oil helps use it up.

 

Maybe I could get an answer on Oil.
When you run out of fuel shouldn't you run out of bar oil at the same time or close?
I've tried to turn the oilier up and can get pretty close.(using Stihl gray or orange bar oil)
Wouldn't used oil run out before you run out of fuel?(not as thick)
Am i thinking wrong? (still trying to teach this old dog a trick or two.)

 

The walmart stuff is sae30. Its not winter weight I promise you that. Here in SC when its like 40F its pretty thick. Not like winter weight.

 

Meant to post this first.


Here we go again

 

Too much money invested in quality bars to risk premature bar failures or oiler problems to run drain oil. A guy I used to cut with a long time ago smoked his 36" 930 super running drain oil, that was enough for me. Granted I do not cut 24/7, if I was going through gallons a week I might have a different opinion.