What oil is best? and what ratio?

[CR500]

Have you ran any yet?

Grabbing something to eat and then the 7900 should be ready to go cut.

The 661 was running the the Original

 

[wildroamer]

I'm going to switch to 40:1 also. Same little bottle, I'll just fill my little tank to 0.8 gal.

 

[junkman]

The no spill jill cans are marked 1 gal and 1.25 gal , 4 oz per 1 gal 32 to 1 at the 1.25 gal mark 4 oz is 40 to 1

 

[CR500]

Grabbing something to eat and then the 7900 should be ready to go cut.

The 661 was running the the Original

had to adjust the dolmar a little, Lost my tach sadly

Anyways she ran good with a faint 4 stroke in the cut, Kind of how I like to have her run with out a tach.

Pulled the plug after a tank and it was obviously a little rich still but the saw performed flawlessly. The smell was pretty good and had smoke only on a cold start....

Will pull muffler later maybe.

 

[jmssaws]

had to adjust the dolmar a little, Lost my tach sadly

Anyways she ran good with a faint 4 stroke in the cut, Kind of how I like to have her run with out a tach.

Pulled the plug after a tank and it was obviously a little rich still but the saw performed flawlessly. The smell was pretty good and had smoke only on a cold start....

Will pull muffler later maybe.

4stroking in the cut is extremely fat.

Benol at 40:1?

 

[huskihl]

had to adjust the dolmar a little, Lost my tach sadly

Anyways she ran good with a faint 4 stroke in the cut, Kind of how I like to have her run with out a tach.

Pulled the plug after a tank and it was obviously a little rich still but the saw performed flawlessly. The smell was pretty good and had smoke only on a cold start....

Will pull muffler later maybe.

With the 7900 limited coil, richen the h up. Then hold it wide open and lean out the h til it quits climbing. That's the limited coil kicking in at 13,500. I then richen mine a bit about 1/8 turn

 

[CR500]

The saw was clear under a good normal load, while limbing it was slightly 4 stroking.

I mixed at 50:1

 

[CR500]

Was cutting soft wood if that means anything. I have to buy a tach.... when I had it tached I was at 13,250 last year at 32:1 K2

 

[jmssaws]

The smell of benol is fantastic.

 

[Windthrown]

My Stihl dealer always pushes the Optimix oil they sale. I'm not using that either.
While I'm sure Amsoil is a decent oil, I just don't believe it's the holy grail they claim.

I would agree on this, and at those PRICES! Holy shirt Batman. I never buy premix or bar oil at a chainsaw shop.

I just picked up 3 gallons of bar oil at Wal Mart. $5.40 per gallon for 'virgin' Canola oil.

 

[jmssaws]

17$ is more than I give for most saws.

32$ for 6 gallons is what I give.

 

[Windthrown]

nah dude that sht will permanently fck up yer bar n stuff.

can only use stihl ultra premium super duper grey bottle stuff! It's special owl n stuff. My dealer has it on sale for 17.49 American dollars a gallon!

But that grey stuff is not bio-degradable! You need to spend MORE on the green bottle Stihl BioPlus bar oil which is $19.47 a gallon DSP:

Made from a vegetable oil base, STIHL BioPlus™ oil is the environmentally conscious way to keep your bar and chain lubricated. This bar and chain oil offers excellent flow characteristics, even at low temperatures, while remaining less harmful to humans and the environment when compared to traditional oils. BioPlus™ oil is also highly biodegradable, degrading by 93.8% in only 21 days, as rated by the Coordinating European Council. It’s the ideal balance of preservation and performance for green-minded users.

My Wally World canola oil is 100% biodegradable and completely harmless. It goes good on salads and for cooking french fries. The dog also likes my leaky Stihl oil flippy caps (please spill some oil, please spill some oil, please spill some oil!). Some varnish has actually built up using the Canola on the bars (that may be from using used canola french fryer oil though). Comes off with a swipe of a rag with some solvent on it. That only seems to come from bar heat though and the oil tanks and chains are clean. Its thinner than regular bar oil but I never run out even with my oily-matic settings on high.

BTW, best I can do here for regular bar oil is $9.99 a gallon. Its a rip off around these parts.

 

[jmssaws]

Oil for you environmental tree killers. Lol

Makes perfect sense.

 

[jmssaws]

My blade only gets synthetic blade oil

 

[Windthrown]

Oil for you environmental tree killers. Lol

Makes perfect sense.

Ah yes, the contradictions in life. My environment here includes a well though, and my clothes, and my cat and dog and the nephew's kids. So I much prefer canola bar oil. It is also about half the price of regular bar oil.

I also have to drop more dead pines snags here because of beetle kill (due to global warming). If I left these snags standing they would go up like torches during fire season. I process the pine into firewood and use it to heat my house in my wood stove here. So I reduce my need for burning dirty coal energy and I save money to boot (about $150 a month), and thus I am saving the planet even more than Bernie Sanders is. Also dropping and replanting Doug firs is one of the fastest, if not the fastest way to get/sequester more CO2 out of the atmosphere.

 

[jmssaws]

On a good week I cut a couple hundred trees.
I have planted lots too though

 

[CR500]

at 50:1 the cylinder looked fine. You could see a film!!!

 

[jmssaws]

at 50:1 the cylinder looked fine. You could see a film!!!

I thought you might like it.
I've ran it for years and nothing lubes like it.

 

[wildroamer]

Global warming, and cooling, has been going on since this planet was born. And will continue to do so.

 

[jmssaws]

I don't think us loggers are making any difference.