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Country Line bar oil is currently on sale at TSC right now for 2 for $10. Can't get any cheaper than $5/gallon! We use 150 gallons or more per year.

Thanks Kyle -- that's definitely in the plans here. Off road diesel and gas in 100 or 250 gal tanks, direct fuel delivery. Probably a diesel Jerry Can in the near term: our local supermarket has fuel points that give you up to $1/gal discounts, so we can fill fuel tanks + cans + a Jerry can at...

That's my sense of things -- Ethanol isn't that bad, things have been adapted to its near-universal presence in the US. I think it was a red herring the saw shop was throwing out there. I have printed out a list of Kansas & Missouri stations with Ethanol-free gas, though: https://pure-gas.org

Highly, highly suspicious of the first rebuild, given how quick it burned up afterward and all other saws using the same fuel mixes. So the that points to the rebuild as the main variable. Lesson learned on that: get a new saw shop. But we do want to improve the other variables with as hard as...

That's the basic working hypothesis at this point. Their shop may be 20 mins from us, but probably better to go into KC 30-45 mins to a better shop that does dependable work. Completely unimpressed at this point with the quality of repairs. Tractor place in town carries Stihl and can get any...

Thanks for the firsthand experience-based advice. We usually get Echo bar oil from the tractor store for $9.99/jug. Sometimes fill in with TSC Country Tuff or O'Reilly's MasterPro brand if on sale. We keep it warm in the truck so it's of proper viscosity during these cold temps -- something you...

Our saw shop was attributing the 2nd death of the #2 372 to bad gas, particularly with Ethanol. We hadn't been working near ethanol-free gas stations lately, so been using super unleaded + the orange bottle Stihl 2-cycle oil. Probably a deadly combo for it, but it's odd that the other 372 has...

How about Opti? I ran that last winter, says you can do 100:1 mix, but we were doing 50:1 with it (usually 40:1 with the orange bottle Stihl 2-cycle -- got a case of it on a raging deal).

Do they use Ethanol in Oz? Anyone have experience with fuel stabilizers like this one our saw shop carries? https://www.amazon.com/Star-Tron-Enzyme-Fuel-Treatment/dp/B001VMNHX8/ Probably only an issue in the 880, since all the other saws are in constant use, never sit longer than a day or two...

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I thought Raj had that standing order in place -- anything you want to send his way, just chuck it over the northern border wall in his direction. We have 2 Kingpark Chinese knockoffs (take 25:1 mix), a Jonsered CS2255, a Poulan Pro 245, and a 200T sitting in our boneyard. Dunno if they're quite...

Junk 372: No compression. Pistons, carb, main bearing... the whole thing... again.

That's for sure tempting -- a 462, hmmmm.... But we're giving the saw shop one LAST chance to do right behind their work. They sold us the saw new, then rebuilt it completely, we ran it for less than a month, now it's ready to go back in for a full rebuild.

Except our lemon that's been rebuilt once and needs to be rebuilt again 6 months later. The other 372 is still running like a champ, though after 2+ years of good, hard use.

With the way taxes work, it's feasible to feed in new saw purchases and write them off for business expenses. So no need to prop up something that becomes a time & money sinkhole.

We're more in line with what Pete is saying. Most minor repairs on climbing saws (top handle shockmounts, fuel tanks, mufflers, etc.) are done in house. Carb issues or undiagnosable issues go off to the repair shop. I'm off to the shop now to rebuild the shaft in our HT-133 power pruner. No...