Veg oil in saws

[doobin]

I've said it before, but nobody seemed to take any notice. If you gum a pump up with veg oil, solvents won't work. The secret is to run near boiling water through it. Think about it- the oil has emulsified. Same as boiling chip fat having been poured down a drain then setting and clogging it up.

 

I know, I'm a genius.

[morten]

I've used rapeseed oil, both branded chain oil and cooking oil, for over 15 years and have never cooked a bar tip yet nor noticed advanced chain wear. The only downside, as someone has already mentioned, is the resinous build up of oil and sawdust which occurs round the clutch drum, oil pump, chain brake etc. if this isn't cleaned regularly then it can become corrosive over time. The Stihl bio chain oil is supposed to minimize this to some extent, but I've never tried it.

 

It's hard to believe that folks are still using mineral chain oil considering the negative environmental impact it has being sprayed over soil, flora and water. Not to mention that as a chain saw is running a large proportion of chain oil coming off the chain is vaporized and your just breathing all that in!! + rapeseed oil is cheaper.

 

The Stihl bio chain oil not only contains additives to reduce the tendency to cure, but also contains additives to increase the viscosity, which means you can turn down the oiler and maintain similar lubrication properties. The same is true for most (if not all) other brands of vegetable based ("Bio") chain oils.

[tommytopsoil]

We've supplied a fair bit of this in the past. Some love it, others not so fussed.

Never had any reliability issues, just a few initial complaints of "It's a bit thin" but once the oiler is set right, all seems good.

[Tom Richards]

Alright tommy how much do you charge for 25 ltr? cheers

[Ty Korrigan]

We are interested also.

I used bio chain oil before and it was excellent, my experiment with cooking oil was a failure though.

I want to go over to Aspen and Veg oil and make a point of advertising this to clients. If I can locally source Bio diesel for the chipper then again I'll go for that and make it known to clients.

Ty

[tommytopsoil]

Alright tommy how much do you charge for 25 ltr? cheers

 

Hi Tom, sorry for the delay. We no longer supply this type of chain oil - it is blended by a supplier of ours on behalf of Plantoil and I believe only available through Plantoil themselves now.

 

We are now able to supply Pennine Bio-degradable Chainsaw Oil - I quote -

 

"Manufactured from premium quality, vegetable derived base oils combined with state of the art additive technology.

The products within the range are greater than 90 % biodegradable within 28 days ensuring they meet ASTM D 5864 Pw1 standard."

 

This works out at £74.75 ex VAT and delivery but I am sure we could sort some discount for Arbtalkers.

I am aware that this may not be the cheapest and I can't find the price for a 205 but it would work out cheaper/l and we could then do free delivery also.

[Marsh Monkey]

this is what i use out on the sunny broads

 

SuperTack Bio Chainsaw Oil (25 Litres) | Clark Forest

 

we get it from our local shop at acle, i was using rape oil before that but found that combined with peat it made a black gunky mess that cooked saws, this isnt quite as bad but i still have to clean up my saws once a week to de-gunk them

[Goaty]

I have used only bio oils for 10+ yrs I did use plant oil and have only recently started on supertack from Clarks, The plant oil never degraded in the ten years

 

It's hard to believe that folks are still using mineral chain oil considering the negative environmental impact it has being sprayed over soil, flora and water. Not to mention that as a chain saw is running a large proportion of chain oil coming off the chain is vaporized and your just breathing all that in!! + rapeseed oil is cheaper.

 

Whilst this is my thinking as well, Do you realize that people have been running round in Sumatra hacking orangutans to death and burning massive native forests down to replant with palm oil trees, whilst some is sustainably sourced. Much isn't and no real concrete in use certification scheme exists yet. I know the super tack has 10% palm oil, the plantoil is "mostly" rapeseed.

Most hygiene products, shampoo, shower gels etc have palm oil under its various names in them as well as foods. So the sustainable argument is a bit like the biofuel one. Done responsibly it would be ok.

[tommer9]

been running used chip fat from the back of restaurants and chippies for years, with no problems. The 200s dont always like it, but usually its just a bit of old beefburger blocking up the tank pick up. Given the saving financially, envorinmentally and to my health too, its a no brainer. Its usually free too

[bushtuckaman]

Do the guys using chip fat run it through some sort of filter before using it? Cheers