Do you grease your bar tip or no?

[jmssaws]

I bore most trees so I'm hard on tips, I grease them every couple days or so,got a sugi now that I've cut a mountain of timber with in the last 6 months or so and the tip is still going,the best tips for me so far.
I have a Australia gb cn40 that I'll put through the ringer next and I'll grease it too,if it has a hole,if never looked. Lol

 

[jakethesnake]

Very fine explanation philbert spot on

 

[skidooguy]

I grease my tips if they have a hole. I do not oil my planter chains. Lol. Don't know if that's right or wrong but it's worked for me so far. If you wanted to plug the grease hole the jb weld idea sounds good to me. I drill small holes in sealed bearings and needle grease them all the time and then smear a little ultra black over the hole to keep dirt out and it has tripled the life of grab roll bearings in our beet diggers.

 

[jakethesnake]

I was taught to grease sealed bearings that way also

 

[Dingeryote]

Part of the problem....

Low output bar oilers, restrictive oil passages on OREGON Hippie approved bars.
Centrifugal force, overly tacky bar lube, and production geared towards shaving a penny over every 100 units to every failure.

Gravity is what it is.
Oil follows the rules.

Wimpy nose skins, lets junk get in the way of oil.
Choked down oil passages, reduces oil flow.
Cute little Hippie chick pleasing speedbumps in the driver grooves, puddles oil where it does no good, but makes for good media claims.

Not saying oregon is crap, but they would hold a Rooster in their mouth, while arguing about what is Gay with Liberace.

The bearing support on Oregon Noses, is what the minimum insult expected was projected to be, by a skinny jean wearing Meterosexual tinkerbell, that has never heard a saw running.

There is a reason Stihl, Total, Old Carlton, Windsor,old GB, and even old Oregon stock are held in higher regard.

Ya can't choke the oil down to Hippie pleasing drop per hour levels, without a cost.

 

[fearofpavement]

Part of the problem....

Low output bar oilers, restrictive oil passages on OREGON Hippie approved bars.
Centrifugal force, overly tacky bar lube, and production geared towards shaving a penny over every 100 units to every failure.

Gravity is what it is.
Oil follows the rules.

Wimpy nose skins, lets junk get in the way of oil.
Choked down oil passages, reduces oil flow.
Cute little Hippie chick pleasing speedbumps in the driver grooves, puddles oil where it does no good, but makes for good media claims.

Not saying oregon is crap, but they would hold a Rooster in their mouth, while arguing about what is Gay with Liberace.

The bearing support on Oregon Noses, is what the minimum insult expected was projected to be, by a skinny jean wearing Meterosexual tinkerbell, that has never heard a saw running.

There is a reason Stihl, Total, Old Carlton, Windsor,old GB, and even old Oregon stock are held in higher regard.

Ya can't choke the oil down to Hippie pleasing drop per hour levels, without a cost.

Ya feel better now? Glad we got that sorted out. What kind of bar oil is the best?

 

[Al Smith]

It's been said that grease has a tendency to collect grit which mixed with the grease turns into valve grinding compound .Besides that unless you have a wimpy oiler it's bound to get some lube from the bar oil .

I've wrung one bar tip in my life but that was only after wearing out maybe twenty loops of chain right down to the nubs .I mean not a thing left to sharpen .

 

[so il logger]

My experience pertaining to this topic may as well be wrote off. Firewood cutter's or part time user's continue doing what you have been doing. If it works for you.... then keep on....

 

[DSS]

My experience pertaining to this topic may as well be wrote off. Firewood cutter's or part time user's continue doing what you have been doing. If it works for you.... then keep on....

I grease, and the only tip I ever lost was on a Stihl bar. But I wonder if I'm wasting my time when you cut more in a week than I do in a year.

 

[atv1965]

My only bar tip failure was a Stihl ES bar, I run mostly Cannon bars now and they all have grease holes. So I grease em!

 

[Dingeryote]

Ya feel better now? Glad we got that sorted out. What kind of bar oil is the best?

Nope!
Still plugged up and the prunes ain't working.

Whatever is on sale, and doesn't smell like a Burrito fart.

 

[SawTroll]

I haven't greased a bar nose since 2004 or so, and never had any trouble - assuming the bar oil is doing the lube job well enough.

That doesn't mean there aren't situations where greasing can be advantageous, just that I haven't ran into any obvious ones.

 

[Gypo Logger]

Any grease injected into a tip soon becomes a solution mixed with the barlube due to the heat created by the moving parts and the cutting of wood.
Blown tips aren't caused by lack of grease, they are caused by using the tip too much and lack of proper bar dressing.

 

[wildroamer]

Part of the problem....

Low output bar oilers, restrictive oil passages on OREGON Hippie approved bars.

"Cute little Hippie chick pleasing speedbumps in the driver grooves, puddles oil where it does no good, but makes for good media claims."

"... they would hold a Rooster in their mouth, while arguing about what is Gay with Liberace."

"...by a skinny jean wearing Meterosexual tinkerbell, that has never heard a saw running."

"Ya can't choke the oil down to Hippie pleasing drop per hour levels, without a cost."

Now that is some funny stuff! Thanks for the laugh!

 

[SawTroll]

Btw, Husky has now joined Stihl in making bars without grease holes - with a new "pro" laminated series, called X-force.

 

[Philbert]

Btw, Husky has now joined Stihl in making bars without grease holes - with a new "pro" laminated series, called X-force.

Think it might be the same as the Oregon SpeedCut (Post #59)?

EDIT - tried to Google 'Husqvarna X-force' - looks like they use that name on a range of products.

Philbert

 

[SawTroll]

Think it might be the same as the Oregon SpeedCut (Post #59)?

That was my first thought when I heard of it, but the limited info I have doesn't point that way - at least not clearly. The focus seems to be a bit different.

I'm not sure how they plan to use the X-Force designation, as some of them (the .325 and .325NK ones) are just listed as Pro laminated at this point.....

The new Husky bars aren't listed on the US website yet.

 

[jake wells]

good thing i run GB bars i don't want a bar i can't grease because they don't last in my woods. i grease every sharpening and never had a failure but i use schaeffer extreme pressure high temp synthetic grease though.

 

[jakethesnake]

I never grease and mine last pretty long