O.C.G.D. Thread, part two

[Burnham]

Good looking rope.

 

[flushcut]

Right on keep us posted please.

 

[Bodean]

I bought another Husqvarna 536LIXP top handle lithium...

I love the concept... no pull cord and no gas.

What's everyone's favorite alternative bar lubricant? Crisco?

 

[lxskllr]

I use canola in the winter; ~$4/G at walmart. I like the way it flows at low(ish) temps. I've heard you should run regular oil every so often to keep the works clean, so that's what I do when it's warm, and I think the tackifiers are more important in hot temps.

 

[SeanKroll]

Canola, don't leave it sit for a while. regular use seems to be fine. All SPs saws ran canola for years. We used 36" bars and down, commonly.


Some people mix canola and dino.

 

[Cobleskill]

I thought I remembered reading canola gelled up in cold weather. Never used it myself.

 

[cory]

It is interesting to think about all the 100's of thousands of gallons of bar oil that has been sprayed harmlessly, apparently, across the landscape over the years. Not on water though.

 

[SeanKroll]

Why do you say harmlessly, apparently?

 

[lxskllr]

I thought I remembered reading canola gelled up in cold weather. Never used it myself.

I've used it at 25F, and it was starting to cloud at that point, but still flowed fine.

 

[Bodean]

If bar oil was phytotoxic... we would see it in the trees we trim...

I just want something less expensive and more eco even... canola seems cool... it get down to about 48 degrees here ince in awhile...

 

[cory]

Sean I'm not aware of any ill effects to the environment, except perhaps watercourses, from bar oil spraying around. "The solution to pollution is dilution"

Please edify me if I'm mistaken

 

[Bodean]

Dilution is not the solution to pollution...

 

[MasterBlaster]

But short of stopping it, that's the best thing to do.

 

[cory]

Dilution is not the solution to pollution...

If you think about it, it really is.

But I'm listening.

 

[Bodean]

Pollution. Is the wrong shit in the wrong place. Be responsible. If you can't, make politic law to entice people to do the right thing...

Do you think your best friends great grand kids have a good earth to inherit?

I have a 9 yrs old and I shudder at his world when he's (God willing) 70 yrs old...

 

[MasterBlaster]

I shudder at the future for the children, but it ain't from pollution.

That's way down on the list.

 

[SeanKroll]

Suppose you use gallon of oil on a job. Suppose you used a mist sprayer to spray the same gallon of oil around the yard. Would you simply prefer not to have oil sprayed around the yard, one way or another? Does that just make sense?

The exhaust fumes from saws float away and lose concentration. Imagine what it is like to run saws in a regular sized closed-up room.

It's easy to ignore pollution.

Cars mostly have no visible smoke cloud, anymore.
One could say that apparently, there is no effect from car exhaust.


No free lunch.

 

[cory]

Suppose you use gallon of oil on a job. Suppose you used a mist sprayer to spray the same gallon of oil around the yard. Would you simply prefer not to have oil sprayed around the yard, one way or another?

I don't think I've ever used a full gallon on any 1 day job. Anyway, presumably a lot of that oil is stuck to the saw chips rather than sprayed around the yard. Question remains- have you ever seen or been made aware of any harmful effects of bar oil being used on a property, excluding body-of-water possible issues. I'm eager to learn of any issues, I've never seen any direct or indirect or otherwise issues.

And regarding dilution- of course straight purity is a nice thing but if something contains pollutants at such a low, diluted level so as to be essentially undetectable and harmless, then there you go, s'all good.

 

[flushcut]

It's not hard to go thru a gallon of bar oil cutting firewood.

 

[Bodean]

Why not spray something beneficial like... recycled poop proteins that add nitrogen....

 

[SeanKroll]

Micro-plastics can't be seen by my eyes.

Where is the free lunch?

 

[Ryan]

My friction saver arrived today all the way from the UK and instantly became the nicest piece of gear I have. Now I just have to get past the mental hurdle of not having my lifeline around the tree. Thanks again Highscale.

 

[pantheraba]

 

[Jonny]

Beauty! Think of it as an extension of your climbing line that could support you, me, and Roseanne all at once.

I spy some 8mm Ultratech too, that stuff worked great on any 1/2” 16 strand.

 

[SeanKroll]

I picked up a BR800, just got a light use so far. You can definitely feel the twist in your body.

Might try out the drenaLine with the Akimbo tomorrow, on a new project. It's pretty boldly colored. Good contrast.