cheap bar oil

[Skwerl]

I'm not sure how much the saw shops are charging these days, but bar oil is still only $5.17 per gallon at Wally World. I don't care what color the bottle is or what the name is on the label, it's got the sticky stuff in it to keep it from flinging off the bar. If you're still paying top dollar for Stihl brand bar oil, you're throwing your money away. I just stocked up on another 8 gallons and that should hold me over for a couple months.

[GASoline71]

Nothin' wrong with that stuff Brian. I have used it before too... Just depends on where I happen to be when I remember i need to buy bar oil.

:)

Gary

[fishhuntcutwood]

You're both silly. I buy only Stihl bar oil, and I buy the limited edition variety. It's bottled at a native oil spring in Belgium. It's laced with gold flake and pixie tears. It works great, and is only $25 a gallon. I hope you guys enjoy wrecking your saws!

[mek]

4.99 a gallon at the local fleet farm a couple weeks ago. I cleaned off there shelf of that stuff. 10.95 a gallon at the local saw shop for stihl bar oil.

[Al Smith]

Some time last year Stihl branded oil was about the same as TSC stuff . I've used both along with about every other brand .They all work .

[BostonBull]

They all work, its what you like to run and what you like to pay. if you like to pay less and use reclaimed oil as bar oil buy from Wally world. if you like to run a proprietary virgin blend use Stihl, Husky or other "hugh priced" gold flaked pixie dust.

Each their own..

[Jonseredbred]

I actually dilute Wally World bar oil with filtered used hydraulic oil from the fleet. During the summer months I go 2/3 bar oil to 1/3 used hydro. Winter 1/2 and 1/2 works well.

[sotc]

sounds like a good idea andrew, i use wally world poulan oil also. in fact i need to go clean their shelf again, rakes to

[Al Smith]

I hear these storys of reclaimed or filtered oil being sold as bar oil but I don't this to be truthfull or not . Any oil really doesn't "break down " it just gets contaminated . In the case of lube oils it can be filtered but I don't think indefinately .

It makes a pretty good source of heat in a waste oil burner though so it's not a total loss .

[Skwerl]

BB, the Poulan bar oil from Wally World is virgin oil, not recycled.

[BostonBull]

I am sure it is.

[Jamin Mayer]

Hmm...It's worth trying Wally World's oil. If you don't like it, then don't use it. I'm gonna try it next time. Thanks for the tip Skwerl!

[Stumper]

Jamin, FWIW Walmart has there own Tech 2000/SuperTech brand found in the automotive section and they carry Poulan in either the hardware section or Lawn and Garden area of the store. Both work just fine but the Poulan has a better bottle shape for both pouring and staying upright in the truck. I have used these oils for about twenty years except for my diversion into using cooking oil.

[MasterBlaster]

I HATE those rectangular bottles. They really bite a big one! :X

[stehansen]

I'm a Wally World bar oil customer. What do they do with the reclaimed engine oil Al?

[sotc]

a logging outfit i used to work for put all the used engine oil through the bar saws

[MasterBlaster]

Bad bad bad.

[fishhuntcutwood]

Very very very bad bad bad.

[Stumper]

I HATE those rectangular bottles. They really bite a big one! :X

Hmmm..have you perchance tried them since they were redesigned?

And BTW-Walmart and Poulan oils are either virgin base stocks or rerefined-nice clean honey colored oil. K-Mart used to sell a reclaimed ,filtered(?) bar oil that was a putrid green/black and stunk to high heaven.

[Skwerl]

And don't forget the little trick about just cutting a slit in the foil seal rather than removing it. Makes it much easier to pour from the side without spilling oil everywhere.

[MasterBlaster]

I showed somebody that yesterday.

[mek]

Some of the liquid laundry soap bottles work good too. I don't think they are osha approved though.

[Old Monkey]

I went into Walmart to buy oil the other day only to find they didn't have any. I'll have to stick with baby oil for a while.

[mryb]

I'm not sure how much the saw shops are charging these days, but bar oil is still only $5.17 per gallon at Wally World. I don't care what color the bottle is or what the name is on the label, it's got the sticky stuff in it to keep it from flinging off the bar. If you're still paying top dollar for Stihl brand bar oil, you're throwing your money away. I just stocked up on another 8 gallons and that should hold me over for a couple months.

You know Skwerl, about 6 months ago or so we had a 5,923,512 page thread on bar oil. What the hell are you trying to prove now? Did you forget to bring a point up or just a poor memory? Now I had to take some of my precious time to kill this thread. I hope you break a clutch spring...Rick

[Paul B]

I go through so little I buy the pixie dust laced Stihl stuff.

[Stumper]

Rick, Bar oil threads are immune to your awesome thread killing powers.

Paul= Pixieboy

[Al Smith]

I'm a Wally World bar oil customer. What do they do with the reclaimed engine oil Al?
I'm not sure they do anything with it but burn it now days .Years ago they used to filter the non detergent stuff and resell it at cut rate gas stations for about a quarter a quart .

Before the EPA got on them they used old oil on railroad sidings etc to keep down the dust .That was years ago also .

Non detergent oil keeps the particulates in suspension,easier to filter .Detergent oil ,the stuff gets pretty mixed in ,not easy to filter or at least that's what I've always been told .:?

[Paul B]

I remember the gravel roads around here getting a summer oiling every year... and having to wash dads car after he found a freshly oiled road...

[squisher]

Yup they used to always oil er up, not anymore though.

[mryb]

Rick, Bar oil threads are immune to your awesome thread killing powers.

Paul= Pixieboy

Ahh, 9 hrs of peace so far on the bar oil thread...it doesn't get any better than this...Rick

[Skwerl]

Ahh, 9 hrs of peace so far on the bar oil thread...it doesn't get any better than this...Rick

Idunno about any 'thread killing powers', perhaps it's more akin to a buzzard swooping in to peck at the flesh of a dead carcass...
;)

[sawinredneck]

I figure I am just pumping it on the ground anyways, Ill buy the cheap stuff!!
I take the money I saved and use it to buy a better two stroke mix!

[mryb]

I figure I am just pumping it on the ground anyways, Ill buy the cheap stuff!!
I take the money I saved and use it to buy a better two stroke mix!

The first person on this thread to make sense...Thank You

[mryb]

Idunno about any 'thread killing powers', perhaps it's more akin to a buzzard swooping in to peck at the flesh of a dead carcass...
;)

Keep it up & you'll get a private message...Killer

[sotc]

:D just making sure its well mixed:D

[No_Bivy]

you got enough wedges?

[sotc]

for that truck, i do:D

[No_Bivy]

:lol:

[stehansen]

It looks like you were spinning hookers in the parking lot.

[sotc]

It looks like you were spinning hookers in the parking lot.

not sure what that means but dont tell my wife!:lol:

[stehansen]

I just innocently mention the word hookers and he gets all nervous.

[sotc]

like a cat in a room full of rocking chairs:)

[NeTree]

Shhh.... the womenfolk will get suspicious.

Can't say I ever noticed any difference in chain/bar life with either brand oils, or the Wally stuff.

Take your savings and trade your Stihl for a Husky.

;)

[Burnham]

Shhh.... the womenfolk will get suspicious.

Can't say I ever noticed any difference in chain/bar life with either brand oils, or the Wally stuff.

Take your savings and trade your Stihl for a Husky.

;)

Uh oh...think you got your brands backwards in your post there, brother...;)

:P8);)

[lumberjack]

We went by our Wally World but couldn't find any bar oil.

Stihl oil is about 3 bucks more a gallon.

[Stumper]

FYI Cheapskates. Check your Autozone. Our local store has Itasca bar oil for $4.99 per gallon. It is dandy motion lotion and even cheaper than Wally world.

[top hopper]

The last 4 gallons Ive used were Biobuzz oil.

[NeTree]

Uh oh...think you got your brands backwards in your post there, brother...;)

:P8);)


:p Nope. Got em exactly right. :)

[Magnus]

Anyone here ever tried that stuff you mix with water?

I am curius about that. It seems to work ok.

I know a couple here that tried this stuff.

[sotc]

never heard of it

[NeTree]

You mean the water soluble oil like "SolZol"? Never tried it in a chainsaw.

[sotc]

oh, we used soluble oil in alaska in the fish processing machines. mostly cause it was a food grade, but what we used was way to thin for bar oil

[Al Smith]

I think it has more to do with the amount of oil ,not the brand .

It seems that the more modern saws and their wimpy oilers just wear out bars faster . If they put out about twice the flow it certainly would make things more simple .Then the "greenies " would whine about too much oil as if it were the wreck of the Exon V. all over again .

[sotc]

shoulda seen the slick i put in someones pool the other day!

[Al Smith]

Well a half a teaspoon of oil on the surface of a pool would look like the wreck of an oil tanker .

[Magnus]

It is sold here by Oregon, I think it was and is called Arborol..
Mix is 1/10 and it is a oil for saws and harvesters etc.

I don't think it is anything other than a slimmed dryed regular oil to just add water, but I have yet to test this.

[stig]

Remember to bring your saw indoors in the wintertime, that stuff will freeze solid in the oiltank and make it impossible to run the saw until it's all thawed out again.
Should work okay in Florida and southen California though.

[JonnyHart]

It will get real thick in the cold, but the heat from the muffler will warm it up and keep it moving. Maybe not so much on a saw where the oil res isn't near the muffler, like the 200.

[Al Smith]

The type of oiler is indeed a factor as to how well they work in cold weather .

The little slotted shaft pumps used on the small Huskies are not to good in this condition . Gear pumps are a little better.Pulse diaphragm pumps work so-so .Most likely the best is pulse driven piston pumps .

All that is nice to know but whatever is on the saw is what you have to deal with . In the past I've resorted to auto tranny fluid under extreme cold conditions .That stuff doesn't have the tacking agent that regular bar oil contains but at least it makes it to the bar which is better than not getting any oil there at all .

[Drella]

Has anyone heard or have used veg-based oils?

I know that the viscosity of something like flax is comparable to that of bar oil..

Is this being used anywhere now or something like it???

[lumberjack]

I found bar oil in my Wal Mart, for me it wasn't in Lawn and Garden, but on the same shelf as engine oil. It was labeled "SAE 30wt Bar Oil."

$5.50ish.

[rbtree]

That's been my source for several years now. Was under $4 as recently as last year.

[Frans]

I use the Wal-mart bar oil. 1 gal. Green bottle labeled Poulan. Under 5 bucks

[mryb]

You know Skwerl, about 6 months ago or so we had a 5,923,512 page thread on bar oil. What the hell are you trying to prove now? Did you forget to bring a point up or just a poor memory? Now I had to take some of my precious time to kill this thread. I hope you break a clutch spring...Rick

You guys trying to get me stirred up again? Im still on medication from last time...Rick

[darkstar]

I used cheap ass old engine oil till 1986 then i noticed all my saws almost immediatly blew the oilers:?:?:?

[Drella]

Wal-Mart

Super-Tech SAE 30 bar oil

under $6.00 a gallon

Automotive Dept.

[Tucker943]

I watched a dude run gas in his oil tank back in the line clearance days. He didnt feel like walking all the way to the trucks for oil. Saw never caught fire. I lost that bet.

[darkstar]

Well just about anything would work untill they came up with these fancy oilers.
Shoot i enjoyed pressing the button everytime i wanted a squirt haha.

[squisher]

I've thrown gas in the oil tank to clear a blocked oiler before. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. Never any problems from it though.

[Tucker943]

I learned that you can do it (run gas through). I think it is a ballsy move. Lots of heat and friction under that clutch cover. i guess not enough to ignite.

[Al Smith]

Kerosine or diesel fuel through an oiler is an age old fix that sometimes works .

Timely that this thread is still going on because Tom the tree guy just left .He dropped off a half a pickup full of old saws plus 20 gallons of bar oil just because he didn't like the stuff .Hey ,cheap is good free is better .;)

[Jamin Mayer]

Man, I'm still using the green Wally World bar oil since I found out they sell some. I have not had a problem. Can't notice any difference. I even saw guys in Jerry's videos using the Wally World stuff. I figure; if the loggers use it, then there isn't a problem.

I'm glad you guys brought it up. I wouldn't have even checked if they had it.:thumbup:

[bushman]

Check out stils biobaroil ,its works great and if you spill it on soil it feeds the soil.works great wth old big saws.high dollar stuff.

[Frans]

Man, I'm still using the green Wally World bar oil

I bought a gallon of bar oil from Ace hardware last week. The stuff was completely black. It even smelled like recycled motor oil. At least wally world oil is nice and clean, and inexpensive.
Its hard to buy here. Several tree guys are hip to it, and come in with shopping carts and clean them out (me included )

[CurSedVoyce]

I wanted to bring to every one's attention that Echo put their bar oil on sale recently. Still is here so far.. About 2 bucks or more cheaper per gallon individually than the other stuff I can get up here. Might be worth checking into.

[squisher]

And the bar oil thread lives on.:lol:

[Dave Shepard]

Which is better, Stihl, or Husky?

























:P

[CurSedVoyce]

Don't even start that .. LMAO

[Tucker943]

wait..........in a pinch can I run motor oil through the saw?

[CurSedVoyce]

YUP

[Tucker943]

that was a joke

[squisher]

:lol:lmao.

What you aren't into recycling?:lol:

[mryb]

Why does my eye start twitching & a vain pop out in my forehead every time I get on a BAR OIL THREAD?

[CurSedVoyce]

Be afraid be very afraid .. LMAO

[squisher]

Now we all know used motor oil is a big no no in the chainsaw. But! I'm changing out my oil on my boom this next week. I think I read about someone on here using that used oil as bar oil before is this true?


Rick you're going to have to try harder to kill this thread.:D

[Skwerl]

Used hydraulic fluid won't hurt anything, although it won't have the tackifier to keep it from slinging off the bar. Maybe you could mix it 50-50 with bar oil to get some tackifier? You're probably using AW-32 so it should be plenty thin enough to flow well. That helps on those Stihls since they tend to be kinda stingy on bar oil.

[Al Smith]

Stihls since they tend to be kinda stingy on bar oil. Ain't that the truth .:(

[squisher]

Yah AW-32. I'll try it out then and see how it woks, I'm going to have aprox 25gallons of the stuff so I'm hoping it works out ok. Mixing it would probably work too, if it's to thin or not sticking enough I'll definetly try that out.

8)

[mryb]

Rick you're going to have to try harder to kill this thread.:D

Give it time. Or maybe Im losing my touch...

[sawinredneck]

Give it time. Or maybe Im losing my touch...

You are loosing your touch!!:P

I am hearing of guys now mixing bar oil with canola oil having good results:?

[Dave Shepard]

I have been mixing the bar oil in my saws with more bar oil at every fill up. It's been working splendidly now for about 15 years.

[No_Bivy]

I have been mixing the bar oil in my saws with more bar oil at every fill up. It's been working splendidly now for about 15 years.

say what?:?

[Dave Shepard]

That was in response to Andy's post about mixing canola oil with the bar oil.

[MasterBlaster]

Hahahaha.

[sawinredneck]

I have been mixing the bar oil in my saws with more bar oil at every fill up. It's been working splendidly now for about 15 years.

A ratio??????????????? Anything?

[sotc]

what evers in the tank:what ever it take to fill it again:lol:

justin, your aw32 is practically food grade anyway so your saving the world at the same time;)

[stehansen]

He'll be drinking it now that you said that Willie.

[okietreedude]

I used actual veggie oil a couple yrs ago for about 6 months. after 3 burned up oilers in 2 diff saws, I went back to the regular oil. someone on AS gave me hell for not taking better care of my saws....he can go spank himself.

last time i bought oil, i think i paid right at $6/gal. its off brand stuff.

[Al Smith]

Danged price went up on all oils no matter what they are used for .

Somebody on one of the forums claimed they went through a couple hundred gallons of bar lube a year . Sounds like a bunch to me but it is the internet ya know .Any way this guy used hydraulic oil he found some place ,maybe from oil changes on back hoes or something .

I suppose it would work if you had a saw thet would really pump oil which eliminates most Stihls .

Now that deal of using old crankcase oil is another thing .I'm cheap but I'm not that cheap .Gawd having to fool with stuff to save a buck is about nonsensical in my opinion but whatever anybody actually does to their saws is their business . I'm not going that route myself ,yuck .:(

[woodworkingboy]

I once read where a chainsaw expert recommended using winter viscosity bar oil all year round, better penetration into the chain, he claimed. I've started to do that. Seems like it might help the saws with reduced oil output too.

[Al Smith]

I don't know .If the stuff doesn't have enough tacking agent in it you can fling a lot of it off .

Some of those little saws with pressurized oil tanks just won't shove thick oil out to the bar when it gets cold . Tranny fluid works you just use a lot of it .

Maybe ,just maybe salad oil would work better it that case .Can't say for sure though,never used it .

I will say this though,Crisco or salad oil is a good lubricant for spinning on tubeless tires .The veggie oil doesn't work on the rubber the same as petroleum based lubricants . Then again how many people besides myself mount tubeless tires ,trivia .

[stehansen]

I've seen my tire guy put soap on the tires for mounting them. Sounds like some sort of prison thing.

[Al Smith]

Rambling on ,"poly water" which is a wire pulling lubricant is nothing but that bio tech stuff sold by Oregon .It basically is KY jelly and also makes a good tire mounting thing .

Another trivia item .Jelled water has less friction that straight water and is used in hydrafracturing sub strata rock fomations in oil wells .

So when all is said and done really KY jelly has as many uses as WD-40 and duct tape .How 'bout them apples .:lol:

[stehansen]

Another trivia item .Jelled water has less friction that straight water and is used in hydrafracturing sub strata rock fomations in oil wells ..:lol:

I was wondering how they did that.:D I've only seen water wells being drilled and they don't go so deep as to need K-Y, only mud.

[Al Smith]

I was wondering how they did that.:D I've only seen water wells being drilled and they don't go so deep as to need K-Y, only mud. Apples and oranges .Drilling mud just keeps the bit from sticking and washes away the rock dust else it could get stuck tight as a bulls azz in fly time .

Hyrdafracturing is where they crack the rock formation around the base of a well by intense hydraulic pressure and blow in coarse sand or bauxite to create like a big wick type condition to capture more oil .

They use several methods depending on the type of sub strata rock . I'm certainly no expert on the subject by any means .What info I know comes from my brother who once worked the oil fields around Gillette Wy and Sydney Mont .

[Chisel Tooth]

Yepum duct tape has a lot of uses

[mryb]

Rick you're going to have to try harder to kill this thread.:D

There, was that better? Nothing on here for 2 days...

[Stumper]

Squishey-san, The hydraulic fluid works petty well as barlube but it slingeth profusely forsooth. I used it straight in the power pruner and in othe4 saws when things were below freezing but otherwise found that mixed 50/50 with tackified baroil was a happier solution.

[squisher]

Thanks for the advice Justin.8)

[cory]

I went to the hardware store to pick up a few gal to tide me over till I could get to the tree supply store for some cases. Stihl oil was $19.25 per gal......:O I bought one gal of no name brand for $13.96. I called the tree store, they sell for $8+ per gal. So maybe I should check Walmart, huh?

[sawinredneck]

Yeah, I was at Lowes the other day and running low, the cheapest they had was $8.69 a gallon, the Husky stuff was around $17 a gallon!!

[Cut4fun]

My Lowes was $8 and change for Husky.
Walmart Poulan $7 ,
Sure Tech $7 makes good winter oil, thinner.

[woodworkingboy]

You guys are buying by the gallon? You should be purchasing minimum 4 gallon cans. Isn't it sold that way over there?

[Mr. Sir]

Never saw a 4 gallon can around here. :/: Besides, my guys would end up spilling half of it on the ground. :? But that's not a bad thing, right? It just gets "absorbed" by the environment. :roll:

[Chisel Tooth]

You guys are buying by the gallon? You should be purchasing minimum 4 gallon cans. Isn't it sold that way over there?

I'm not sure about the others but I know you can get Stihl oil from 1 quart up to a 55gal drum.

[Al Smith]

You are being ridiculous again , Sir Mister

[darkstar]

I was way into the 5 gallon thing.
My guys were not, so i told umm to buy their own ber earl.

[okietreedude]

I wish you could buy by the 5 gal can.

[stehansen]

I can get it in a 2.5 gallon can at my local Exxon dealer. The only trouble with it is that it is a tranismission oil base and everytime I take my saw in to be worked on the mechanic will sniff the oil and look at me like I just molested some little girls and ask me am I using transmission oil, don't I know what proper bar oil is? I think the Poulan oil at Wally World is just as cheap anyway.

[sotc]

i can get it in 5 gallon and 55 gallon. i used to buy walmart for 4.88 a gallon, chevron pails were 35 bucks then. more expensive and more of a pain, ill stick to gallons if thats the case

[CurSedVoyce]

I can get case breaks on 1 gals up here. 10 percent. I prefer the gallons. More expensive... But it's just the way I am ;)

[discgolfborist]

We ran sunflower seed bar oil until the local shop stopped carrying it. The only problem was that you would get so hungry running the saw from the smell of "roasted" sunflower seed.