Dang it! beat me. no that stuffs nasty. only the best $10 gallon bar oil for my saws! if it was so great wouldnt loggers use it ?
The used motor oil practice is much less common with equipment enthusiasts seeking the very best care for their machines and those who work with their tools every day and insist on reliable, and cost-effective performance. Not to mention those that fix the dang things.
My father had a love for used motor oil. He called them drippings, and he used them wherever he could. He dumped them on his driveway to keep the dust down, and he used it for lube and in various other places, including his precious Homelite chainsaw. I give him some credit, as in those days motor oil was all there was for bar oil. However, he died a horrible early death. Really, he died of liver cancer. Which is one reason I detest these posts, even though I know they are made in jest (at least by some people). Exposing yourselves and your expensive toys unnecessarily to used motor oil is not a very bright. That stuff has blow-by gas, heavy metals, a lot of detergent, as well as other unhealthy crap in it. It also does not have and tackifier in it and it will sling off your bar even faster with the added detergents. If you use motor oil as bar oil, use 'virgin' non-detergent oil, like ND-30. O/w use a good bar oil designed for it (which is basically ND 30wt with a tackifier and maybe a dye added). Also for winter grade oils, use a winter weight 10wt based bar oil rather than thinning the bar oil with diesel or kerosene. Or just leave the bar oil inside with the saws the night before cutting and your oil should flow well for the day of cutting. Also you may want to consider using canola oil, as that is actually cheaper than bar oil around here now, and is far better for you and the environment that you are slinging oil around in.
Right or wrong, I used it for many years. Never burnt up a bar or chain. I've now been shamed away from it. All my used oil is now recycled in a heavily modified pre-epa wood stove with an oil drip, in a friends shop.
I hate these posts........ I think I will try out the canola oil with an added tackifier.......someone posted on the "other" site not long ago a link to tackifiers that you could add to the canola oil...as well as a food coloring to dye it so you could see the oil better when running the saw...
I just use the husq stuff. I don't cut enough for the cost to matter. About used oil, I know I should be more careful and wear gloves doing oil changes. I just can't get used to it, loosing grip on the tools...
I run what I brung! Heck I even used auto trans, fluid hydro, corn, veggie and some of the gf extra virgin olive oil. Don't tell her I only had a short run to do.
