Canola oil will work but it will get all over your saw and very few cleaners will break it down. You need to use very harsh solvents to soften it up. On occasion you should be fine though.
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Like stated here and many other threads, any oil will work in a pinch, but none will work quite as well as the intended fluid.
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I use canola oil in my pole saw…
I hope to gawd you meant this:
Rather than throw it away, I once used some very old olive oil in a decorative bottle I acquired from a family friend. It worked quite well in my cheap Harbor Freight electric chainsaw. I just finished a gallon of Mile Master bar & chain oil. My next one: some SAE 30 I have no use for mixed with some Farm & Fleet bar and chain oil from the 80’s. My trees were hit hard by last week’s ice storm in Texas.
On the cordless electric, I bought last fall, I'm using up qts of 20w50, before that was some 40 yr 50w, Thin oil just uses up quicker.
I am about out of bar oil and if ACE is instantly sold out of it before I get there for this afternoons delivery I will be using used Mobil 1 5w-30. I'll have to check the oil level. My Poulan needs a bar oil refill with every gas refill.
Poulan Pro bar and chain oil. I've had a gallon container for several years. Doesn't take a lot for my needs.
Using used engine oil for bar oil is a bad idea. It gets flung off the bar, it ends up in the air and on your clothing. I've seen times after I've had been blocking up wood for an afternoon and showering at night, have oil residue on my legs from saw dust blowing on my legs and bar oil soaking through my work pants.
So what would you do if no bar oil is available?
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Use whatever you got
Correct oil is less messy and many bar/chain oils are biodegradable.... atf/psf/oil are polluters in your drinking water.
If those oils are getting in you water I seriously doubt it's from chainsaws.
Very interesting. What’s his bar and chain life like?
I finally ran out of a gallon of bar oil I had for ages. Pro Select "PREMIUM" made in Shreveport LA. I am using used Mobil 1 5W-30 that has 6000 miles on it. It does not run out quicker than bar oil and the bar is not clogged with sawdust like it was with bar oil. Like bar oil 1 fill up with every fuel fill up. I will use bar oil again when I can find some. Seems like bar oil was $15/gal last month of December 2022. Now it's $25 and up.
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How about that 2 cycle oil? What is it? I don't see any specification on the different brands. I'm guessing one guy makes it and Sthl, Walkmart and others bottle it. Certainly Sthil does not have their own refinery,
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How about that 2 cycle oil? What is it? I don't see any specification on the different brands. I'm guessing one guy makes it and Sthl, Walkmart and others bottle it. Certainly Sthil does not have their own refinery,
There are B&C oil deals out there if you are patient. I burn and have tree service wood delivered via tri-axle, so I'm cutting a lot.
I just bought four gallons of SunJoe for $7.25ea shipped to my door.
Before that, I stocked up on Harvest King when it was on sale at Runnings.
I just bought four gallons of SunJoe for $7.25ea shipped to my door.
Before that, I stocked up on Harvest King when it was on sale at Runnings.
Supertech Bar & Chain oil suites my needs just fine. Cheap and does the job. A gallon lasts me several years.
If anyone has a Rural King near them, I picked up a gallon of cam-2 bar oil a couple of weeks ago for $8.99. It works like anything else I’ve ever used, and it’s almost half the price of everything else available locally
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