Tractor Supply Co.® Bar and Chain Oil, 1 gal.

I gotta go with Oldman, you can get a gallon of bar oil from Tractor Supply cheap, and from what I'm seeing they are springing up all over. I've kind of switched from Lowe's to them for just about everything.

As said, regular oil is lighter and won't stick to the chain and bar as well. I have also heard of the vegetable oil. I saw a show on building log cabins. They used vegetable oil in the chain saws to avoid staining the logs. So, technically, probably any oil will work somewhat. My brother used old oil in his saw. As far as I know, it didn't cause any problems.

Here in NW Montana, LOTS of my logger friends (me included) used the used motor oil in chainsaws (bar oil) with excellent results. The bars and chains were changed out about the same as when regular bar oil was used, so IMO the used oil is just as good. As far as being harmful to the environment, the amount flying off the chain is minimal if the oiler on the saw is adjusted properly. The smoke from the saw motor itself causes more harm.(I believe)

I've used waste cooking oil in my saw also. We raised fox, bobcats, coyotes, and mink for several years, and got quite a few downed cattle, and road-killed deer for feed sometimes, we would freeze the carcass, then cut it into smaller chunks with the chainsaw, then toss them into our meat grinder (powered by a 235 cu.in. chevy engine) The waste cooking oil would not harm the animals.


eeyore

That must be a huge freezer to handle a downed cow.

Bubba,
Yes it's big.......8' X 24' freezer truck box to be exact. We could store 10 tons of frozen feed, we got 3000 chickens every 3 months from the egg farm just down the road, we ground and mixed feeds for several fur-farm/game-farm businesses in the area.
I built the meat grinder with a 235 chevy engine and hydraulic drive, it would "eat" a road-kill deer in about 15 seconds, a cow in about 15 minutes, depending on how fast you could toss it in.
We don't use the freezer anymore for freezing........just dry storage now, it's a terrific root cellar.
I sold the grinder to a fur-farm a few years ago, they're using it just as we were, to custom grind for others.
We got "zoned out" of the game-farm business, so most everything was sold off.


eeyore

I would use and do use only bar oil in my ECHO chainsaw. I would not put any contaminated engine oil from a car or anything else into
my saw. Motor oil from a car engine could contain possible contaminates that could possibly erode or do damage to the interior parts
of that saw, might also void any future warranty claims if it needs repair in the future.

I tried the used oil straight and it was smoking. Literally, it was heating up on the bar ans smoking. So I cut it with bar oil. It seems OK. Then I found some bar oil at AAFES/PX (military department store) at the Tobyhanna Army Depot. They only have it by the quart, but it beat the prices of all the stores I shop at. So I bought all they had, which wasn't much. They were probably glad to get rid of it.

I agree with the majority of you. I won't use used car oil anymore.

Thanks for all the input.

Ciao!