Winter Bar Oil

[Gypo Logger]

Hi Otto, ya the hose head is on the right.
Here's a picture of Fish's wife, she is a wicked woman with an axe!
John

 

[tundraotto]

Poor woman - look at the tolerance for pain of this poor lady of Mr. Fisher. This is just a great demonstration of the pain she can endure - look at where her thumb is - yet not a shadow of pain is reflected in her Kentucky gaze...

 

[Gypo Logger]

Hey Otto, gals from Kentucky are pretty tough, and not to be messed with.
John

 

[tundraotto]

They are as tough as rawhide. Just look at the first picture of the lady and compare it to the second one taken obviously within a relatively short time of eachother. Exposure to Mr. Fisher has taken its toll. The wedding ring in the second picture is a great telltale of what has happened to this poor woman in the hands of the resident "redneck" chainsaw mechanic do-it-yourselfer, Mr. Fish.

 

[Gypo Logger]

Your absolutely right Otto, but check this one out of Fish.
Gypo

 

[don]

Enviromentally friendly

There is a mountain here called SULFUR mountain and the oil is leaking out everywhere. Place smells like crap. Go walking or hiking and end up with sludge all over you.

Gene Hacker the actor from DALLAS show has a place on this mountain range.

Environmentalist want nothing to do with it. I guess it is a aboration of the natural order of things.

As far as the environment and bar oil. If this mountain can secrete all this oil , and I mean allot of it. I don't see how a saw oil is so much more damaging.

How does the earth recycle bar oil?

 

[Gypo Logger]

Just bringinging up old posts to get Fish thru this long cold winter

Does anyone know where I can buy some enviromentaly friendly tackifying bar oil of the proper lubricity and viscosity, that will flow laminarly thru the terminal parts of my saws, that will also lubrificate the needle bearing on the clutch drum without causing seizure or bilabial pitting to the bar rails?
Thanks in advance,
John

 

[Mouse trap Engineer]

Jus down here in the Jungle soakin up the 87 degree Sun, keepin my mouth shut.



Jungle Johnny

 

[Fish]

If I had a mouth like that, I'd keep it shut too!


Any more pics you want to send me?

 

[Tony Snyder]

Gypo, Have you tried Blackberry Brandy. It doesn't have laminar flow but it will clear up your thinkin so you can loosen up on your specs a little.

 

[Gypo Logger]

No I haven't Tony, but I would like to though. Here is what you and others can do and thankyou kindly, just hollow out a French loaf of bread and in place of the dough, put a mickey of moonshine etc. and mail it to:
John Lambert
Box 74 Ballinafad Ontario Canada N0B1H0
Doug sent me a huge bottle of champagne last year, so you guys can too, and why wouldn't ya eh?
putzo logger

 

[SilverBlue]

And in return, sweet ol Gypo will return your loaf with his christmas greenery

 

[Tony Snyder]

My local oil jobber handles both winter grade and a summer grade of bar oil at about $3.80 a gallon wholesale by the case. I sell it at $4.00 just as an accomodation to the customers.

I don't often get the same brand names from one time to the next, but I haven't had any complaints.

More difficulty seems to come from plugged up bar oil holes than from oil brand or viscosity. Then of course there are the guys that ride a dull chain and wear things out so bad its hard to tell if lube was the issue or not. But I love every one of em.

 

[Sylvatica]

Here's another naturally occuring source of oil "polluting" the earth's surface. So much so that the rock oozing the oil catches on fire.

http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/kimfire.htm

Vulcanism is a generator of noxious gasses and chemicals as well, mother nature at her dirtiest.

While we all are conscientious about reducing, and where possible eliminating "pollution", I do recall reading a positive report on healthy soil (some leaf litter, enough organic matter and fertility to support a sufficient and diverse population of microorganisms) being able to rather easily fully decompose hydrocarbon oil at 1% of soil weight in 250 days. Getting realistic about it, short of additives, the oil is only hydrogen and carbon. And a healthy soil obviously has the capability to biodegrade typical bar oil amounts without exotic inoculants, detergents, and enzymes. If a large amount of oil was deposited on a pure sand or gravel soil, then it would be much more likely to become mobile in groundwater, without having organic material to fix to while microbes do their work.

 

[maggiesboy]

new bar oil

here is a photo of my son with a hat on from a new bar oil company. Bill Jr

 

[Marky Mark]

I fugured with the cold snap here I would bumb this post so the new guys can get a nice read on "Winter Bar Oil" as of right now it's ZERO out and I am just wubb'n it. I am sitting on 45 cords from the fruit of my summer labor and this house is nice and toasty along with my fur shed. Only problem I had this morning was a nice cool ride on my quad to check some traps. Gotta love those Filson pant's. Well stay warm since in 2 days were are getting a heat wave. :Eye:

 

[Lewis Brander]

To Marky:

Hey Marky, open the draft and the windows and send some of that heat up here to northern NY. -22 degrees this morning @ 6 AM and only - 8 degrees right now @ 4 PM, without any windchill figured in. They say it's supposed to warm up a bit in the next couple days. Can't beat wood heat. Wish I had room to put in a wood stove, even a good pellet stove. Take care. Lewis.

 

[Kenskip1]

My question about winter bar oil is simple.
Doesn't the heat from the saw contribute to the thinning of the oil?Other than the oil oozing from the bottle if it is poored into a warm saw, will this not thin the oil? Ken

 

[Lewis Brander]

Thinning Oil:

My question about winter bar oil is simple.
Doesn't the heat from the saw contribute to the thinning of the oil?Other than the oil oozing from the bottle if it is poored into a warm saw, will this not thin the oil? Ken

The oil isn't actually thinned, but eventually warms up so that it flows easier. The best thing to do is keep your bar oil warmed up, by keeping it in the truck cab if that's possible. I've thinned mine with 10w 30 motor oil and that seems to work fairly well. Take care. Lewis.

 

[sedanman]

To a point this is true, but let the saw sit for a while and the oil gets real thick. "Run the saw to warm it all up" you say, but while it's warming up to the point of being able to flow again the oil pump is dying from the strain.