Stihl MS660 Avgas 100LL

[sachsmo]

GOOD!


We can get no e stuff all around here.

89 octane e free at the co-op and a few bulk dealers.

Funny thing is, they put a big ethanol plant up ' bout 15 miles from here, the Farmers lobby for the use of ethanol, but for their equipment they demand e free?

Farmers have ALWAYS been wily mechanics (or they don't stick around long)

 

[mdavlee]

There's more and more independent owned stations selling it. Exxon, BP, and the other chains sell 10% but our marathons are switching to e free as are a couple of oil company owned stations that do bulk fuel/hearing oil. We have 87, 89, and 93.

 

[samdweezel05]

GOOD!


We can get no e stuff all around here.

89 octane e free at the co-op and a few bulk dealers.

Funny thing is, they put a big ethanol plant up ' bout 15 miles from here, the Farmers lobby for the use of ethanol, but for their equipment they demand e free?

Farmers have ALWAYS been wily mechanics (or they don't stick around long)

At the risk of sounding like a doof, making your comment sound a bit off and as a guy that works on a farm.....when was the last time you heard of them putting ethanol in diesel fuel? Also, when was the last time you saw a farmer with a piece of gas powered equipment other than maybe his pickup truck or an ATV? We go through 100,000+ gallons of diesel a year vs 2,000 gallons of gas. Ethanol is the least of our worries.

 

[BobL]

Always figured an ounce o' prevention is worth a pound o' cure.
Milling with a chainsaw has got to be harder on them than almost anything else. .
Perhaps you could get by with 50:1 87 octane, I for one will leave it to someone else to try. (ever try to find a P&C fer a 30+ year old Sachs Dolmar?)
Actually what I put them through I picked one up off the bag (just in case)

BlueRider has been milling with 50:1 for about 20 years on an 076 using fully synthetic oil.
I use 40:1 and just remember some of the stuff I mill green is harder than dry hickory.
If I could get fully synthetic lube I would use 50:1

 

[sachsmo]

To each his own brother.

I've had success with my methods.

 

[sachsmo]

At the risk of sounding like a doof, making your comment sound a bit off and as a guy that works on a farm.....when was the last time you heard of them putting ethanol in diesel fuel? Also, when was the last time you saw a farmer with a piece of gas powered equipment other than maybe his pickup truck or an ATV? We go through 100,000+ gallons of diesel a year vs 2,000 gallons of gas. Ethanol is the least of our worries.

Thankfully there are still a few operations around these parts that haven't gone full blown commercial,,,,,,,,,YET!

Even the big operators have quite a bit of gas powered equipment.

Just find it funny that in the middle of the corn belt, e free is pretty easy to get?

 

[samdweezel05]

Thankfully there are still a few operations around these parts that haven't gone full blown commercial,,,,,,,,,YET!

Even the big operators have quite a bit of gas powered equipment.

Just find it funny that in the middle of the corn belt, e free is pretty easy to get?

This is a family owned farm (father and son) started back in 1962 that currently has 16 employees total. Not exactly commercial. We milk 1,500 cows and work 3,800 acres. Besides 2 pickups and a couple of 5hp water pumps, everything is diesel including our John Deere Gator. We can get E free all summer long and occasionally in the winter too but only in 91 octane.

 

[Mad Professor]

I wouldn't want to breathe the lead in the avgas .

I be more concerned in the lead in the food from China

 

[Mad Professor]

This is a family owned farm (father and son) started back in 1962 that currently has 16 employees total. Not exactly commercial. We milk 1,500 cows and work 3,800 acres. Besides 2 pickups and a couple of 5hp water pumps, everything is diesel including our John Deere Gator. We can get E free all summer long and occasionally in the winter too but only in 91 octane.

Where in NY? Nothing E free close to the Vermont border, or southern Vermont for that fact (maybe Marinas by Champlain?).

I run 100LL in all my two strokes. Some need to be leaned out a bit some are fine as is. I use Golden Spectro at 50:1 and have so for 35 years, dirtbikes and saws, including my 066 on the mill. If you need more oil I suspect it is what you are mixing it with. No disrespect to Mastermind but don't feed your saws corn.

I started using 100LL when they put MBTE in the fuel years before ethanol. MBTE was bad but ethanol is worse. Just cleaned the SNOT out of several carbs on 4 stroke equipment, due to corn fuel. I will run those dry from now on 100LL is too much $$$ on a large scale and the airport is not as friendly since 9/11.

I used to be able to drive my Camaro past the hanger to the pumps, with 12:1 compression and 210 psi the motor loved that fuel. We also had another airport that had the green 115 AV gas, I could cut that 50:50 with pump gas for the car.

I am not a commercial operator and no longer sell cordwood so a little lead is not a concern for me. Having things start up when I need them is.

 

[Dave2500]

I would like to thank every answered, thanks again, i think ill use avgas when i dont have to cut to much, but i may go out to pa to get some E free and fill up a 100 gallon tank and use it in my lawn mowers and play toy car too,

Thanks again