Cold Bar Oil

[treemandan]

Bar oil sprays everywhere when you are cutting, all over your face and mouth. I have used motor oil before and it sucks getting it on your lips, can't imagine what diesel or kerosene tastes like. That winter grade stuff is too exspensive for me to be running in my saw. I can go get a gallon of canola oil form the grocery store for around 5 bucks. It works great in the winter and summer the only thing is you might have to adjust the oiler. I don't use this for environmental reasons, just for it's price and the fact that it's constantly being sprayed in my face from using the saw in the tree.

Thanks for pointing that out and I hope nobody gases up my saw with soemthing like that.

bar oil is just low grade SAE 30 with High Tac added. High Tac is that sticky stuff from Lucas. You can make you own and change the ratio of oil to additive but I just buy bar oil and use winter grade when needed.

Theoretically you can put the stuff in engines but I never have nor will.

 

[joe912]

When we're installing deliniators on the ice roads, we use mineral oil for the bar. Works great at -40.

 

[Treecutr]

I found a jug of all weather stuff at local hardware stor, I think it's popular mechanic, definetly better in the cold, it's a bit thinner. Wasn't the 9 degrees like before, but teens to low twenties, worked pretty good. I'll try some of the suggested stuff here too.