best chain lube

**rj's barn** · 02-04-2010, 08:02 PM

With all of the petroleum distillates available to us....... the one that escapes me as to which the best brand would be is, chainsaw bar lube. I've had mixed success from one gallon can to the next of several different brands of bar lube and trashed several bars, chains, and oiling systems as a result. Since I use a larger industrial saw, parts are expensive enough to justify spending a little extra on a good quality lubricant to keep my chain and bar from chewing themselves up. I'm half way through the saw mfg brand of bar lube and already chewed up a bar and this is my 2nd chain. Any idears?
RJ

**Ducati996** · 02-05-2010, 10:20 AM

What are you cutting? are you hitting dirt/rock with your cutting?
sounds excessive but im not sure if this is a commerical application you are using it for?

**JohnDeere4300_KY** · 02-05-2010, 11:18 AM

Last year I cut up 16 very large trees with the same chain & bar on my larger saw, and the same on my smaller saw that I use for "cutting off limbs on a tree."..I sharpened my chains A LOT, and will need to buy new chains this season, but both bars are just fine!

I changed my "hydraulic oil" in my tractor early last spring, and saved all the oil... I used the hydraulic oil in both chainsaws for bar oil.. I couldn't tell any difference in wear on the bars or chains than using "thicker bar oil."

That was the first time I used "hydraulic oil", and will this year!

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**rj's barn** · 02-05-2010, 05:59 PM

Duc, I'm cutting Oklahoma post oak for firewood. It's some pretty hard stuff and I'm harvesting old growth timber from around creek beds where anyone with any sense wont take a chainsaw. Then drag em out of the bed with the bota and log em. I keep my bar out of the dirt and prop up my cuts high enough for me to work with. I would say i can get somewere between 15 and 20 ricks of wood before my saw starts trying to cut a circle instead of a line.
I am using a husqvarna 20" 56cc saw that uses just slightly less oil than gas so the system never dries out and I keep my bar tip sprocket greased on every full tank.
I just figured I was using low quality bar lube because it seems to me that a bar should last past one season.

**Ducati996** · 02-05-2010, 08:22 PM

I haven't noticed any improvement with one type of bar oil over the other.....but thats just me....I expect and do, eat chains but not bars....

chain sharpening is the only other thing besides the pitch of the chains I can think of....

Oak is tough when its already dry.....beats up the chain pretty fast...

Oh the joy of chains saws and their up keep

I would like a nice diamond tip chain, with zero maintenance.....asking too much I know

**rj's barn** · 02-05-2010, 09:45 PM

fire department chainsaws have the chain we need. carbide tipped guides and teeth. idunno if 300 is too much for a chain ill never have to replace or not...........
just thinkin.
So bar lube is bar lube regardless of the brand. The problem with the saw may have to do with the hand on the throttle.

**Ducati996** · 02-06-2010, 08:37 AM

well if its avail for $300 and it will last...it will pay for itself by limiting chain replacement, sharpening, while on the job....

**JohnDeere4300_KY** · 02-06-2010, 10:31 AM

Originally Posted by Ducati996

I haven't noticed any improvement with one type of bar oil over the other.....but thats just me....I expect and do, eat chains but not bars....

Oh the joy of chains saws and their up keep

I would like a nice diamond tip chain, with zero maintenance.....asking too much I know

I haven't noticed any difference in bar oil either, and I didn't see any difference in the "used hydraulic oil.".. But I thought I would because it's a lot thinner... I just did a search, and read where a guy on "Homesteading Today" has been using "used hydraulic oil" for 20 years, and he didn't have a problem at all.

A diamond tip chain would be great.. But for the price of a chain, You could buy a nice chainsaw.

... It shows a picture of a chainsaw cutting brick!!!.. The price for 14" chains is from $369.00 to $575.00, and the chains are on sale!

... I would hate to see the price for 20" chains!

Diamond Chainsaw Chains

RJ,... I've searched and can't find any info about bars getting damaged, or anything to help you... I don't think it's the oil your using that's causing bar/chain damage.

...Any kind of oil is better than nothing!

**WilliamBos** · 02-06-2010, 11:30 AM

The biggest thing to remember is changing out the oil seasonally. Summer stuff is way to thick in the winter, and winter too thin for the summer.

I do not run used oil in anything I own, and wont start now. JMHO.

**PaulChristenson** · 02-06-2010, 02:17 PM

Originally Posted by rj's barn

fire department chainsaws have the chain we need. carbide tipped guides and teeth. idunno if 300 is too much for a chain ill never have to replace or not...........
just thinkin.
So bar lube is bar lube regardless of the brand. The problem with the saw may have to do with the hand on the throttle.

Yes...but our FD Ventilation Chainsaws were used rather infrequently...

...make sure you are sitting down when you look at the price sheet...

Rescue Ventilation Chainsaws With Carbide Chain

For miscellaneous work...we used...believe it or not...SEARS...they were local business donations...

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