biodegradable bar oil

[marlinspiker]

Ive heard that you can use canola oil in place of bar oil. is this true? is their any other biodegradable oils out there?

many thanks

 

[KyLimbwalker]

Check out the FAQs section of our website (link below). Stacy Borden turned me on to this stuff. We just tapped a 55gal drum this week.

 

[RyanCafferky]

We have been using soybean oil for a few years now with no problems. My favorite part is that when the bar heats up the smell of it reminds me of pancakes cooking. MMMMMMM pancakes....

I'm hungry.

Later.

 

[marlinspiker]

Kylimbwalker-thanks for the info that looks like a cool site. how much did you pay for the 55 gallon drum? i wonder if its available in smaller quantities.

thanks

 

[Rocks_and_Trees]

What about this stuff?

www.Baileysonline.com

 

[tom_otto]

I spent the last two summers working on a trail crew at Mt Rainier National Park, and all we used in our saws for bar lube, was canola. We really didn't have a choice about it, because it's more eco-friendly. It works great.

 

[FlashTreetop1]

Rocks and Trees that cracks me up, the stuff is called"motion lotion." hilarious!

 

[stig]

I import "motion lotion" from Bailey's, it's a great oil.
We just got a pallet this week, and a woman at the Customs office called me to ask, why a logging company would import 100 gallons of Hand lotion?

 

[Eric_E]

KYlimb,

How much for the 55 Gal drum? Shipping?

 

[marlinspiker]

Im going to try using canola oil this week. Ill tell you all how it works out.

 

[Mntreedawg]

Try Bio Buzz.

 

[tophopper]

Bio buzz is good stuff, but at $15 per gallon its hard to justify.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

I used canola oil in my saws for quite a while. It did work well, was cheaper than petro oil, I felt great about the environmental issues and many other reasons.

My saws were drained and put in storage for about three years. Now that I've fired them up I found that the moving parts of the oil pump didn't rotate and the plastic gear stripped. While stripping the saws down I found the canola sludge very hard to clean. since I had oven cleaner on hand that's what I used to soften the sludge. I think that something like Simple Green may work better but it doesn't make sense to buy even more 'stuff' to have under the kitchen sink.

When I was using the saws routinely there was never a problem with the oil pumps. Over the years I've gotten some old saws that had sat around with oil left in the tank and they worked just fine.

I would still use veggie oil because of the environmental issues alone. Now I am aware of a small shortcoming of leaving the veggie oil in the saw though.

Maybe the store bought veggie bar oil has additives that the grocery store version doesn't. I don't know. Maybe I'll have to keep the saws washed down a bit more to keep the gunk from building up but that really is only cosmetic. In fact, the saws don't have that nasty dirty-oil smell with veggie which is a huge plus.