veg oil as chain oil

[bill]

ive seen people use it before. the last of my chain oil leaked onto my truck floor earlier. what do you recon to using veg oil for about an hours worth of cutting. got a job to do first thing.

[bob]

if you mean veg cooking oil would be not good imo gear oil would be better

[ecolojim]

veg oil in my experience is fine, as long as it's canola (rapeseed oil)

 

it has a very high adherance to metallic surfaces, is incredibly well lubricating and it's kind to nature.

 

i know guys who have been using it continuously for years. i have one saw thats had it in for about 6 months, and you're supposed to use it when cutting by a watercourse anyway.

 

all biodegradable bar oil is is vegetable oil with a stabiliser or tacking agent in, which it just doesnt need anyway

 

make sure you're oiler's turned up to full (mine are never anywhere but full anyway) and you should be just fine!

 

only had experience of canola oil but a lot of the guys over on arboristsite have tried others.

 

i do know people who have claimed to use gear oil and its made a right old mess of the job, dont know why, dont want to, its horrid stuff anyway

 

just my 2 pence. no guarantees implied or given

[nod]

Hi Biill

 

Standard vegetable oill made from rapeseed is just fine. I've used it constantly for about 7 years now with no negative signs at all. The odd bar sprocket has failed requiring a new bar but we run our chains fairly tight anyhows. Costs approximately 70pence per litre & get the thumbs here.

 

Nod

[Aluk]

Where do you get it at 70p a litre?

[Marc]

The co-op i'd imagine

[telhol]

Well it seems cost effective obvious reason for using it but i thought it was a thinner viscousity which can lead to premature bar wear but i think they saving outways the minimal increase in wear.

[Aluk]

I don't think the coop is a likely place, as all I see in supermarkets in the way of rapeseed oil is around £3 a litre for noggins who think it is full of omega-3 fatty acid, and then they use it for frying, which wrecks the molecules.

 

I have a friend who does a lot of chainsaw carving and uses cheapest motor oil at £5.99 for 5 litres, so 70p a litre is still worth getting (if it exists).

 

Just as an aside (read: hijack) anyone who thinks of using rapeseed oil in biofuels to "save the planet" had better think again, it might be veggie, but it produces more nitrogen oxides than mineral oil fuels, and NOs are 296 times worse than CO2 in their effect on the atmosphere, now, must back to my log burner.

[Lee Winger]

vegetable oil is rapeseed/canola

[Aluk]

Your point is?