Cheapest chain oil?

[Pete Mctree]

Rapeseed oil from the supermarket here. On the bigger saws running 30" bars plus I use bio-oil, currently from clarkes as the lubtication properties of the pure rape seem insufficient. I do notice more bar wear when I am cutting in the woods, but this is comfortably offset by the reduction in expenditure in oil.

[Pete Mctree]

No worries like I said I am always open to feedback.

I am actually in the process of developing a 100 C/S chain oil that is a bit thinner than our normal spec.

Hopefully this will help people who work in colder parts of the country, also some chainsaw pumps struggle with the thicker oil.

So this may help

Cheers

Jon

 

An additive for rape to increase it's "tackiness" would be a most welcome product

[inthewoods]

An additive for rape to increase it's "tackiness" would be a most welcome product

 

Christ (alah, jehova, Buddha) & I thought I was a tight wad?!

[jamallio96]

Sorry for the derail but I thought it needed saying.

Dinnae fash yerself mate, I haven't been on Arbtalk long, but I've read enough threads to know that if they haven't been at least minorly derailed by the fifth post, then either it's really serious or anybody with a bit of wit and humour is either working or asleep :-P

[jamallio96]

Sounds to me like rape oil is the best ecological and economical choice! Though I don't like the endless blankets of stinky yellow fields needed to produce the stuff...But ah well!

[SteveA]

Sounds to me like rape oil is the best ecological and economical choice! Though I don't like the endless blankets of stinky yellow fields needed to produce the stuff...But ah well!

 

It's a quadruple edged sword:

 

cheap oil seed rape oil in our saws = more oil seed rape fields + even more monoculture crop x billions of angry bees wanting to sting us.

 

....or maybe we should cut down our oldest forests for Palm Oil plantations.

cheers, Steve

[timbernut]

Where do you get it from at £48? I'd much prefer bio oil, and for that price would happily buy it over mineral :-)

 

 

Sorry shoulda said plus vat! I get the Oregon bio from local dealer in Norfolk and the Clark bio tack is about £2 more but free delivery anywhere in UK

We used veg oil from supermarket for a while but apart from increased bar n chain wear it seems to harden onto the saws and be immovable!

[SteveA]

Damn to Arbtalk!!.... distracted me and resulted in my breakfast getting burnt (it was a chocolate croissant) :thumbdown:

 

 

cheers, steve

[timbernut]

Thought it was build up of crap under your side casing😀

[mickdundee]

The manuals for chainsaws in the army tell us to use OEP220 which in English is gearbox oil. A lot thicker than vegetable oil like a lot of you are saying to use. I take it the army are just getting this really wrong (nothing new there).

They would probably say there's not enough call to justify procurement of a specific oil but maybe there's a more suitable oil already in the system.

 

Sorry for the slight derail