chain oil and fish

[kev7937]

I'd be very careful if you're working with Aesculus we cleared one that had fallen in a pond and all the fish died.

 

Something called aesculin poisoned the lot in 24 hrs.

[Mark Bolam]

Need to go big and go home

 

 

You sound like my wife.

 

 

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[eggsarascal]

Bio oil, freely available.

You'll never kill a fish by throwing logs at them. I tried thousands of times in my youth with zero success.

 

 

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Had the same problem with moth balls. Threw loads of them and never hit a moth.

[Mesterh]

It needs to be olive oil or you will just kill it.

 

Always buy fresh, local if you can.

[inthewoods]

Yes, I wasn't told down the pub that they love eating fish n sawchips.... but maybe that was a load of Pollocks?

Cheers, steve

 

Feeling a bit codfish are you?!

[peatff]

Yes I know of people who have killed fish with chain oil forming a film over an adjacent pond.

Never heard of them being killed by vibrations though.

 

Smashing the ice on fishponds can damage the fish swim bladder with the vibrations that's why it's advised to have something floating to keep a clear space or put a warm pan on to melt a hole. Any oil on the top can't be good but mineral oil will probably be worse than veg oil.

[Big J]

As someone with a large pond with largish carp (though not many koi) in it, I won't even strim the grass within a metre of the edge. It's hand shears all the way.

 

So to answer your question, completely cover the pond with a tarp to catch all saw chips and zip line any branchwood away. Depending on the set up, there could be £10,000 or more of fish in the pond and it's not worth the risk. Koi can live for over 30 years and I personally know people who regard them as children!

[oldwoodcutter]

This is exactly what we had to do one day last week, a birch above a fishpond, stipulated nothing must go into pond, so I sorted out some full length scaffold boards to take with us and a big tarp.

Worked out just right.

[jose]

Thanks for the replys guys.

 

Its a pig of a job tbh.

 

It may be one i pass up on as i am crazy busy and the last thing i need is a headache of a pond full of big fish croaking it!

 

Cheers for the advise!

 

Jose

[flatyre]

I was on my way to a job yesterday when I realised I had run out of chain oil, twenty miles to the nearest supplier so stopped at Tesco and bought a couple of litres of rapeseed oil, worked a treat, can it be used permanently or will long term use damage/clog the oiler system?