Do you grease your bar tip or no?

[so il logger]

Have had problems with oregon bar's blowing the nose apart if i greased them. Haven't greased a bar tip in years...

 

[darkimpulse]

I use white lithium grease as well on the bar sprocket. When sharpening my chain in the field I use it to mark a tooth when I am sharpening the chain. Just a little tiny squeeze between the links.

 

[Brewz]

Exploding tips after greasing?
Sounds like excessive grease.

I always give my Oregon bars a single push from one of the little blue grease guns every couple tanks of fuel.

My Stihl bars dont have the grease hole and they always feel gritty at the end of a days work compared to the Oregon's that get greased.
I keep a small squeeze bottle of motor oil in my saw tool box and add a dribble at the sprocket end every couple of sharpenings on hte Stihl bars, just to make sure they have some oil in them.

I priced the 25" 404 Stihl bar I have at my local Stihl shop and it was $214 so I look after it!

 

[DSS]

I grease. The hole wouldn't be there if they were designed to run dry. But Stihl don't want you greasing, they'd rather sell you another bar or tip.

 

[Coltont]

Have had problems with oregon bar's blowing the nose apart if i greased them. Haven't greased a bar tip in years...

I don't think it makes a difference if you grease them or not. Having the rakers down to far is what kills a bar nose. I've had stihl bars last me 100000 mbf. Couldn't tell you the last time I scattered a stihl nose.

 

[Brewz]

I grease. The hole wouldn't be there if they were designed to run dry. But Stihl don't want you greasing, they'd rather sell you another bar or tip.

Haha, It just hit me

Are Stihl wanting us to buy more bar tips or are the others trying to make us buy grease we dont need?

 

[Dingeryote]

Have had problems with oregon bar's blowing the nose apart if i greased them. Haven't greased a bar tip in years...

Have had them blow a nose in 20" Sassafrass in a clean back cut...brand new.
Have had the damn things blow a nose sprocket on 10" pecker poles.

Greased, or dry, Oregon is trash.

We had better options 10 years ago, when Oregon was trash, but not the only option.

 

[Deets066]

I just spit on it...

Here's your sign...... You've been watching too much porn.

 

[XP_Slinger]

If the bar I'm running has a grease hole I grease at the start of the day. Sometimes I'll give it a pump every other fill up if it feels dry.

 

[Guido Salvage]

I just spit on it...

Proper lubrication is paramount...

 

[wildroamer]

Only if it starts to itch.

 

[CoreyB]

Only if it starts to itch.

I have never noticed any kind of itch with in proper lubricant. Burning! I have noticed burning without the proper amount of lubrication. I err on the side of the more lube the better. Like I said bars are getting too expensive to not keep them lubed up.

 

[Czed]

Used to every time to lazy now I guess never had a tip blow out I run mostly total bars they have been good to me.

 

[Genius]

I used to grease, I may quit though.

I got two Total bars, just for chits and giggles I decided to keep one greased and not grease the other.

It's been about a year and a half since I decided to try this and see the outcome. The one I didn't grease still spins free and the sprocket feels great.
The one I have been greasing feels gritty and is real hard to spin by hand. A few times I had to put a screw driver against a tooth and give it a tap to get the sprocket to spin.


Just from that, it is my feeling that the grease traps chips, dust etc in the tip, whereas running it dry doesn't.

I am going to keep running them and see what tip gives out first.

 

[exSW]

How many head you got exsw

Just a half a dozen or so right now. Untill I get all the fencing and pens done I'm taking it easy. Been through the more cows than infrastructure things a time or two. Hopefully have a full pasture rotation setup so it will be easy to manage in my old age.

 

[angelo c]

I just spit on it...

...and then "polish" it ????

 

[Simondo]

Yup…have a hole , Grease it .

 

[beaglebriar]

Just a half a dozen or so right now. Untill I get all the fencing and pens done I'm taking it easy. Been through the more cows than infrastructure things a time or two. Hopefully have a full pasture rotation setup so it will be easy to manage in my old age.

We used to do rotational grazing on the farm. It works well if set up properly.

 

[beaglebriar]

Oh yeah and...I'm a tip greaser from way back.

 

[concretegrazer]

Nongreaser here.

We used to do rotational grazing on the farm. It works well if set up properly.

It's pretty cool what you can do with just one little wire & a few volts.