Originally Posted By: Jeepster_nut
I've been reading that Stihl HP Ultra is really good oil.
Let's not forget that Stihl, Echo and other brand name oils are manufactured by oil refineries/blenders and mass marketed under a variety of names.
The brand name companies are not quick to reveal who makes their oil simply because the product is likely much less expensive if bought directly from the oil manufacturer.
For normal applications, there probably isn't any leading brand oil out there that will not perform more than adequately in all but the most critical conditions such as racing.
I cut a lot of firewood. Uniformed people might think that a logger uses a chainsaw to more extremes than a firewood cutter. That's more than a little misleading. In this neck of the woods, you seldom hear or see a chainsaw in a logging operation being used. It's all big machines doing the work.
Much of what you see on TV is theatrics to make logging shows interesting. Or, in the case of selective logging, chainsaws will be used. Even with selective logging, the number of cuts to a tree are few. A tree 100 feet long will not be cut more than necessary to lift it out of the bush. Maybe three or four cuts. It's a lager tree of course but the saw is also correspondingly larger as well.
Now let's look at a firewood cutter. A fifty foot tree being bucked into 16" pieces will require around 37 cuts. Now multiply that by the number of trees cut and figure out who's chainsaw is doing more work.
I've been cutting several chords of firewood annually for thirty years or more. I use Jonsereds and Echo chainsaws. My oldest saw, a Jonsereds 630 is 26 years old and still cuts wood like the day I bought it. The only thing that's been changed on the saw is bars, chains and one drive gear. I use and have used nothing but conventional API TC3 oil. Don't discount the quality of regular off the shelf brand name 2T oil. It works very well and it doesn't cost an arm and a leg.
I've been reading that Stihl HP Ultra is really good oil.
Let's not forget that Stihl, Echo and other brand name oils are manufactured by oil refineries/blenders and mass marketed under a variety of names.
The brand name companies are not quick to reveal who makes their oil simply because the product is likely much less expensive if bought directly from the oil manufacturer.
For normal applications, there probably isn't any leading brand oil out there that will not perform more than adequately in all but the most critical conditions such as racing.
I cut a lot of firewood. Uniformed people might think that a logger uses a chainsaw to more extremes than a firewood cutter. That's more than a little misleading. In this neck of the woods, you seldom hear or see a chainsaw in a logging operation being used. It's all big machines doing the work.
Much of what you see on TV is theatrics to make logging shows interesting. Or, in the case of selective logging, chainsaws will be used. Even with selective logging, the number of cuts to a tree are few. A tree 100 feet long will not be cut more than necessary to lift it out of the bush. Maybe three or four cuts. It's a lager tree of course but the saw is also correspondingly larger as well.
Now let's look at a firewood cutter. A fifty foot tree being bucked into 16" pieces will require around 37 cuts. Now multiply that by the number of trees cut and figure out who's chainsaw is doing more work.
I've been cutting several chords of firewood annually for thirty years or more. I use Jonsereds and Echo chainsaws. My oldest saw, a Jonsereds 630 is 26 years old and still cuts wood like the day I bought it. The only thing that's been changed on the saw is bars, chains and one drive gear. I use and have used nothing but conventional API TC3 oil. Don't discount the quality of regular off the shelf brand name 2T oil. It works very well and it doesn't cost an arm and a leg.
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