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If your log is over 24" in diameter I would also suggest using an auxiliary oiler as well. If the oil is as thin and runny as some stihl oil I have seen recently, there is every chance it is all being flung off at the end of the bar and you need to add some more via the auxiliary oil for the second side of the bar otherwise you stand a chance of perhaps overheating it and premature chain wear. I wouldn't use the stihl oil for milling, stick to something thicker which will stay on the bar a bit longer.

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you need a second oiler at the end of the bar, as you wil be losing oil a bit due to the way you are running your saw when milling. RobD, who is the alaskan mill importer, can supply the proper attachment, or you can bodge something like a lawnmower petrol tank with a pipe running down to the bar at the far end of the bar.

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I'm actually not sure that the auxiliary oiler is required. I run a 50 inch bar without it, and only have issues with pitch build up and dry chains once the edge starts to go. I think that best practice is to sharpen a lot, and making sure that that edge is perfect mostly removes the need for the oiler. I used to have one on my 42 inch bar I should stress.

 

And when I say sharpen a lot, I mean every 3 cuts on 40 inch wide by 9ft long material (as a minimum).

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Just received a 5 litre chain oil from Skyland, cheers guys, and inside was some free porn:

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Chainsaw porn. Should make tonights shift go quicker, dreaming of all the toys.....

 

Any the reason I bought some bar oil, was that I'm in the middle of milling this little lot:

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and I'd bought some bar oil from the local garden centre, a 5 litre of stihl, which I opened. It seemed very runny, almost watery, and smelt a bit funny, but I figured this was just how stihl make their oil. Anyway, as the milling is going on, it seems to be getting harder, each cut starts fine (I always manually add a bit of oil to the bar between each cut, figuring that a 36 inch bar on a 395 could do with all the help it can get), but then about 9 inches in, it really drags, and I start to see a few sparks flying out, to which I thought "bugger", but put it down to a nail, having hit a couple earlier on. Odd thing was that the teeth were still fine. Finished up for the day, and was having a good look at the bar, and the links had ground quite a deep grove into the bar, so I'm guessing that the oil was not doing anything, and the sparks were the bar being worn away by the chain.

Having a look at the unused oil, still in the container, and it seemed to have bits in it:

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Is this normal? Do I have to up the flow rate with stihl oil, or is this a duff batch?

 

Cheers, Al.

 

Your welcome! Seeing as Stihl products can't be shipped anymore this is the oil for everyone buying on the Internet :)

 

 

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