Use Vegetable Oil to Replace Chainsaw Bar Oil
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- Chainsaws need a constant supply of oil on the chain to keep it lubricated. The oil constantly drips from an oil reservoir onto the bar where it is sprayed out all over the environment.
The constant spray of oil coming out of a chainsaw isn't good for the user or the environment. To mitigate some of this I decided to try a natural chain saw bar oil instead of using store bought petrochemicals.
The oil I use is simply cooking oil. I use generic brand canola and it works well, is easy to clean, biodegradable, and much better for the environment than the oil sold for chain saw bars.
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Quick and concise! Amazing video
Thank you so much!!!! I was in a bind.
very helpful, the price of bar and chain oil at the Stihl dealer is crazy high
STIHLS ! Already Making a Killing ! Out of SELLING VEGETABLE OIL !
Well, here I was looking for something that would serve as a substitute for the evening; I just fired up a vintage saw I rebuilt and am like a kid___can't wait til morning to try this puppy out 😂
THANKS FOR SHARING YOUR KNOWLEDGE!!
Thank you for posting this. Very useful informationmation. I hope your wife has recovered from the oil spill 😉
I have used vegetable oil too and try to stay away for the ones that solidify when cold. Olive is a good example of one that does solidify. We recently got a freeze dryer and the waste oil from it makes excellent bar oil.
I have no idea how things are in america, but her in germany most people use "organic" bar oil.
It's 97% canola and 3% other stuff to make it more sticky.
So yea, that stuff works.
It only has a tendency to crystallize after longer periods of time,so there can be problems, when you don't use your saw for months or so.
In America we use petroleum oil and it's horrible on the enviorment and out own health! High five chest bump to Germany!
You could just add a little olive oil to make it stickier & another reason to use a natural lubricant is when you're cutting firewood! So you're not burning petroleum oil!!
@@amandanoel143 But if you don't know it clogs up the chainsaw and you basically destroy it :)
I'm a Chainsaw carver and that was very helpful
What type oils use in bar oils
How do you carve a chainsaw ??
Very helpful. Thanks for putting this out.
Every time I go out to cut wood with the chainsaw I smell 'Fried Chicken' cooking. ...weird. 🤔
Like I SMELL ! Fish and Chip Shop ! Oil !
Like ive ! Been using GOOD ! OLD SNAKE ! OIL ! IN MY SAW !
I just use 15/40 mineral engine oil. Cheapest I can find, never any problems over many years.
In a pinch I used extra virgin olive oil- then I used it to make my skin pretty.
I will add to my comment that this happened to my Dolmar 7910. This saw introduces a lot of bar oil into the chain brake parts and around the clutch. Plus, the design of the brake makes it worse for oil to dry up in there like rubber. I don't think these aspects are true of all saws, so some saws might fare better with vegetable oil than others.
Very little difference in life of chain bar, I use them constantly and this works no problem, cheap and available, ideal.
Thanks Dave
In the UK it's called Rapeseed Oil.
Genius! thank you for that.
Perfect, thank you for that info! Worth it to kill an extra chain and bar for my health in the life of the saw, thanks!
Thanks for sharing!
Very helpful thanks
We mostly use burn up car oil (mobile) and it works..
Does Sunflower oil work the same way as vegetable oil)
Thanks
Can any vegetable oil be used?
Thank you
Very Useful! Thank you.
I find it is useful, but it does gum up more if you rarely use your saw.
Shepherd School what about automobile oil? can you use that too?
@@TNGun oil mix 33:1 is ok ?
Problem of veg oils is that they clog the tubes :( mineral is the way.
just wanna point out, canola oil is processed rape seed oil, and yes some vegetable oil has it in it, but there is a difference.
ted rebel use it all up, don't want all that rape seed growing up.
Iv been looking for the answer to this for months thanks so much for the info I have a little chain bar oil left in the tank will it be ok just to top it off this veg oil
But the bigger question. Can you use bar and chain oil for cooking oil.
I Always ! Wondered ! Why ! I was Getting Severe ! Stomach ! Cramps !
Thank you for your info.....
can you use olive oil?
As long as you’re happy being permanently hungry
i wonder how this ages in a saw that isn't used much ?
Thanks! 😊👍🏻
thanks very interesting !
I have used nothing accept used motor oil as my bar oil for 20 years and have never had a problem
Except that is carcinogenic 😃
Except that you pollute the soil and water ressources big time! I also used used motor oil until I realized that I was dumping liters of carcinogenic liquid in the environment! Then I stop using it and switch for vegetable oil.
your comment got a laugh out of me. While mechanically speaking there is nothing wrong with your thinking.... your comment reminded me of an old friend.... one day I walked in and he was pouring 5 qts of very dirty motor oil down the bathroom drain.... I bet you didnt do very well in science class
@@LeChristEstRoil suppose if you Drive a Petrol / Gas Car ! Then that ! Would also Be the Same !
You reckon you could use used motor oil
I’m kinda new to the chainsaw world and was wonder if cooking oil would be better for cold weather cutting
The way I see it it’s just as good but better in winter than summer you’d have to ask Dave
So you can use mustard oil
Did you say Canola oil? The one that is used in the kitchen?
DAVID BLACK yes
That is a good tip. I have an electric chainsaw for home use, nothing spectacular. How about any other cooking oil other than Canola? Thanks for this info.
Any filtered cooking oil will work just fine, it's just that canola is so much cheaper.
@@davidjesse8689 I have used coconut oil in my electric chainsaw for years...6 to be exact. Idk if its recommended or not, but I have yet to have any negative issues.
The temperatures must be consistently high where you live! Doesn't the coconut oil solidify?
Great tip - buying the branded bar and chain lube is just a con
I add a little bit of bacon drippings on my vegetable oil.
Is car oil good for chain saw Super shell
Do not use cooking oil people. Its to thin to reduce friction heat.. you can buy a cheap 5 gallon bucket of hydraulic fluid and a tackifier ( Lucas) and you can make bar oil for a very long while. 30 sae motor oil and 2% tackifier is what most companies make their bar oil from. Hydraulic fluid is made for high heat metal on metal contact, the tackifier is to make the oil sticky and make full rotation of chain.
I searched "Lucas tackifier" and got nothing. I searched Lucas website, still nothing. Are you talking about one of the "Oil stabilizers?
"but it's ... less bad for you" lol
Canola oil (rapeseed) is not a good lubricating oil. It would destroy a car engine. However if you have nothing else it's better than nothing. The cheapest engine oil is fine providing it has a similar viscosity (thickness). My one and only bottle of chain oil ever cost £6 odd for half a liter (half a pint ish). They can go forth and multiply. ( eff off).
It's just for the chain not the engine
It gums up. Badly. Sitting for a month the chain is stuck on the bar. WD-40 required to free it up. Ignorant video not to address gumming up.
Not to mention cooks to your saw.... badly
my understanding is that bar and chain oil has a tackifer additive to make it stick to the bar and not sling off, do you notice a difference between bar and chain oil and canola oil without a tackifier?
I really don't get that argument. The reservoir absorbs engine heat and all the oil currently on the bar gets warm when the saw is in use. Meaning that once the heat soak is complete the oil thins out considerably and all tackiness is gone. You can see this happen as you use the saw if you have any doubts.
I really don't get that argument. The oil reservoir absorbs heat from the engine plus the bar and chain itself get rather warm during use. The bar and chain oil is anything but tacky after being subject to a heat soak.
I'm sure one or more of the many "proprietary additives " are supposedly for that, but it's not perfect. The idea is that, if you're going to be getting ANY sprayed oil on your skin, better it be the vegetable oil, which also happens to cost less
can i use automobile gear oil as a lubricant for my chainsaw?
yes, sae30 motor oil works fine for me
Bar oil is 75wt gear lube@@nickm4055
Is Gear oil use in chain daw
Can you use used cooking oil?
yes, filter it through a towel before, no problem
Is that sunflower oil sir ?
Canola is rapeseed oil. Sunflower, corn or peanut oil will do just as well.
What is ole?
Oil, many people in the southern united states pronounce it almost like "Awl" or "Ool" or "Ohl".
what type of saw is that?
Christian Aycock 18 inch Poulon - from Lowes - not a pro saw by any means
I'm cheap and frugal. I have a cheap electric chain saw that does the job and never fails me . I've been using USED 10-30w synthetic from our cars and notice no difference except for always having this oil around. Somebody please tell my why this is so bad?
Uh bc it's petroleum based and seeps into the ground water not to mention breathing the small particles floating in the air from slinging off the bar.
Also being cheap and frugal caused a guy to kill a family of six by installing a fan blade on backwards causing it to suck in carbon monoxide instead of dispell it. If he had hired a professional he wouldn't have had to kill himself due to facing prison time for six counts of involuntary manslaughter.
Used motor oil contains carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and it is not recommended to even handle without gloves. I’m going to continue using 30wt bar oil but will try to sometimes wear a mask to avoid breathing it.
Not bad we recycled motor oil with a truck of diesel for bar oil
@@cowboywoodard2569 I just used old motor oil to kill Saw Palmettos trees and roots on some vacant lot Florida. Ive got time to let them die a slow death vs having to hire machines to rip them out. Might get some enviornmental hate over this though.
The video never addresses whether this is safe long term for the life of the saw. I've been interchanging vegetable oil, aka soybean oil, and canola oil. My saw sat for months and I just picked it up to discover the chain brake and chain completely seized up with what feels like rubber from the dried vegetable oil (that was what I last used). Not sure if canola dries differently, but I sure hope I can get this mess cleaned up. It's all in between my chain brake and the clutch...yuk!
Same thing happened to me. Haven’t used the saw for a couple months and the chain was seized up. Didn’t realize the vegetable oil would gum up that much. I used isopropyl alcohol to dissolve and loosen things up. Hopefully it doesn’t clog up the oil lines and pump overtime. Thinking of switching to regular oil since I don’t use the saw very often.
I wouldn't let this turn you off to vegetable oils. If I know I won't be using a saw for awhile I plan to drain the veggie oil out and run a bit of gas through the oil line (something that's recommended anyways) and store it dry. I also discovered that a full scabbard helps keep the oil on the chain from drying out. @@Spoderman5000
What kind of oil? LOL the oil your using now is just as bad. Use organic oil if you can afford it :D
Canola oil is what we in Europe call rapeseed oil. It's vegetable oil. All vegetable oil is organic (in the true scientific sense) and cheap, as opposed to petroleum based oil, which is mineral (in the scientific sense) and comparatively expensive.
"Organic" in any other non-science sense is either metaphorical or marketing.
If you care about your health and environment, don't use canola oil. It's very unhealthy.
If you ! Care about tyour Health ! and the Environment ! Then you will NOT ! BE CUTTING DOWN ! TREES ! ANYMORE !!
Now if you use a electric or battery powered saw it's even healthier for you!! And since the electric saws & battery saws for getting much better. There's soon going to be no need for gas powered saws!!
Worried about microscopic droplets of oil, meanwhile loading wood into your lung cancer emitting wood stove?
You might have to HOLD ! Your Breath in ! Too !
Very helpful thank you