Bar oil

[kantuckid]

Cheap oil! I've seen homemade filters made of toilet paper rolls ,like 6 in series .They poured about a bucket full of used crankcase oil through the top and a week later it dribbled through into another bucket, recycled oil .Now I'm tight just not that frugal . :D

I had some KS farmer neighbors that had you beat! Those were dust bowl guys and they saved everything. One had a large area full of antifreeze jugs where he settled it out and busted them open on a sub zero day and used the liquid left inside. Same guy had a 700# crate of aircraft hardware and he'd hunt for hours to locate a sae regular thread amongst the mostly fine threads. He had a glass eye from WWII and a crack shot on pheasants too! It's gettin cold here on my hill... ;D

[Bricklayer51]

A heads up tc has bar oil on sale for 6 bucks a gal.

[kantuckid]

A heads up tc has bar oil on sale for 6 bucks a gal.

I was in a "Rural King" store in Winchester,KY yesterday- their brand was $5.95 gl regular season and twice as much for winter oil. Me thinks between the POTUS and Al G. that winter bar oil's a waste? :

[CTYank]

For temps 32F or above, whatever's in gallons going for best price @ Homey's- typically a summer-VI lube. (Gotta figure in transportation cost, too! Local HD is a couple miles away.)  smiley_christmas

Below freezing, I mix in (in the saw tank) some no-nameo 5w-30 with the above, or up to 25% kero, or when down in single-digits I go to straight 5W-30 or 5W-40. No lube's gonna work if it can't be pumped to the bar, and pumping that lube shouldn't place great stress on the oil pump, or the clutch. IMO. 

Cutting frozen wood is hard on chains, so I file often and don't force things. Seems to work. The big fun is getting a large(r) saw to fire when really cold. Wheaties time!

There is no BESTEST-EVER bar oil, but there are lots of crazy-priced ones- fun to check the $

[ehp]

I run stihl or Performance plus , in the summer it does not seem to be as important but in the winter cutting white oak it does get important with what oil is in the saw , You can smell the bar and chain burning in the cold weather but seems to be fine using the stihl oil , I buy it by 10 cases at a time and get a good deal on it 

[schmism]

whatever "bar oil" is on sale at the store im at.  Farm store, HD, walmart etc.  But i do stick to something that says bar oil for chain saws.

in the winter (below freezeing) ill mix a little used motor oil in.  (which is going to be synthetic 5w-30)

[Northern Logger]

Not sure how anyone can really tell what oil gives better results than another.

Very much like fuel additives.. boils down to what "feels good" at the moment because near impossible to tell what would have happened using the alternative.

No way to test the one single variable. Just my opinion. 

I agree.  That is why I use used motor oil.  And I suspect a lot of others do too, for it's always on sale at rock bottom prices at Canadian Tire in Canada because they can't unload it at regular prices.

[Al_Smith]

Rambling on about frozen wood and oil .I only experienced actual frozen wood several years ago at about 10 below which hasn't happened in these parts for a while .

It was 3 feet diameter late fall cut white oak one of the trimmers dropped off . I threw everything  I had at it including a 125 McCulloch and it was just about like trying to cut concrete .Couldn't cut it couldn't split it .After dinging myself about 3 times from flying steel wedges in the knee I just gave up on it .Didn't have a problem with the oil flowing though for all that's worth .