Low temp bar oil

[timberlinetree]

Is there some way to thin out  reg bar/chain oil?  Have a lot of the regular stuff and if I buy some winter time oil (my luck) it will start getting unusually warm and muddy. 

[David-L]

What you don't use save for next year. I have never thinned out summer oil and always buy oil in the case. This year it was Tasco and seems to be good oil, winter and summer.

                                     David l

[Brleclaire]

Just add some fuel. Doesn't take much. Mixes better if done when oil is warm

[chevytaHOE5674]

Cut the bar oil with a little diesel fuel and it will flow just fine.

[Woodboogah]

If I have summer oil I cut it with used motor oil, good way to get rid of it and have never had a problem.

[Ed_K]

I put some offroad fuel into some 30# husky oil and it didn't mix.Bought 2 cases of 10#,it'll still be good next winter.Today I don't think 10# will flow good either  ;D.

[nk14zp]

I mix a cap full of saw gas with mine.

[luvmexfood]

Sunday while it was in the 30's. I had about a pint of 15/40 motor oil in a jug. Added that to about a third of a gallon of Poulan bar oil. Shook and turned the jug upside down so the heaver oil would come down into the thinner oil.

Used some yesterday. Shook a little and it was still mixed. It's around 9 here today. Will look at it and see if it is thinner than straight Poulan oil.

[barbender]

I took someone's advice on here a long time ago and started cutting summer oil with some #1 diesel in the winter. It works good, and fuel is cheaper than bar oil (not much). You have to shake it up pretty good, like someone said, get it warm. Don't fill your jug up all the way either, so you can really slosh it around. One benefit of this method is you can make a custom blend depending on temperature ;) I'd say start with about 20% fuel, add more if needed. Or maybe, if you were here in Northern MN today (-30° this am) you could go 20% bar oil ;D

[SliverPicker]

3oz of diesel or paint thinner or kerosene to a gallon of oil.  Works good.

[plasticweld]

If I have summer oil I cut it with used motor oil, good way to get rid of it and have never had a problem.

I do the same thing, two birds one stone

[clww]

Along the same spirit of this topic, how do you keep your bar oil warm enough so that it pours? It's been so cold here for the last three weeks, it's been like pouring molasses uphill getting it out of the jug. If I leave it in the cab of the truck, in an hour I've lost all the heat. If I keep it in the skidder or the excavator cab, they're always somewhere else when it's time to fill the saw up.

[ABTS]

I would always cut it with atf half and half . always worked real well.

[JDeere]

Along the same spirit of this topic, how do you keep your bar oil warm enough so that it pours? It's been so cold here for the last three weeks, it's been like pouring molasses uphill getting it out of the jug. If I leave it in the cab of the truck, in an hour I've lost all the heat. If I keep it in the skidder or the excavator cab, they're always somewhere else when it's time to fill the saw up.

Are you sure you are using winter oil? We work in -20*F weather and don't have a problem.

[clww]

I know it's not winter-weight oil. It's Stihl "Platinum" in a silver jug. The boss always states, "We've only used one kind of oil, no matter what time of year". :

[barbender]

If it so thick that it won't pour, you are going to take out the drive gear for your oiler. You should thin it out enough that it will pour in the temps you are working in ;)

[timberlinetree]

Thanks for all of your secret recipes to thin out summer bar oil . I tried What and it worked real well but the smell brought back memories of trans problems(maybe I need aroma therapy :D). For the same reason I didnt try diesel. I got inside information that the girls at the bank were talking about me smelling up the place with diesel when I went in(rubber line on the 353 went fuel everywhere).
Maybe I should say something about their perfumes ;D. This weekend when I'm out I will just pick some low temp bar oil. Thanks for all your help.

[m wood]

If I have summer oil I cut it with used motor oil, good way to get rid of it and have never had a problem.
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Woodboogah...I am so glad to hear I am not the only one doing this.  Guys I work with think I'm crazy :D. Which may be true but beside the point.
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[jdament]

When it's real cold like it has been I use straight 15/40 used oil in my harvestor for bar chain oil and it works fine.

[OHaraTree]

Run hydraulic fluid if you can score it on the cheap. I can get all I want for $3 a gallon. It works.

[barbender]

I like hydraulic fluid too, actually any oil of the right weight. I don't like used motor oil though, it's too nasty messy. It seems to end up on everything.