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Cutting your own Wood for smoking...

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  • Darby_Crenshaw
    Darby_Crenshaw Posts: 2,657
    edited November 2015
    Yeah, it's something people do. Just saying, RRP said he was told bar oil *is* vegetable oil. But it isn't, typically

    But yeah some people do use it


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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    Depends on where you're buying it.  In some places in Europe they mandate triglycerides (vegetable oil) for chain oil. In the US they're mostly petroleum based oils.  Canola oil works well.  There are obviously viscosity issues based on the season and vegetable oil costs about twice as much.  Not a big deal unless you're a lumberjack and the vegetable oil costs are eating in to your wild flowers pressing hobby.  Chain oil needs to be "sticky".  Summer oil can be too viscous in the winter.  You can reduce the viscosity of vegetable oil with a miscable organic solvent that evaporates. 
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  • Darby_Crenshaw
    Darby_Crenshaw Posts: 2,657
    sigh

    i don't think rrp is buying his oil in europe. If he's (rrp, again) grabbing good old bar/chain oil off the shelf, it's typically petroleum based (with other stuff: mineral oil and proprietary stuff)

    if he's grabbing something that's eco-friendly, it may be veggie, sure. It will say 'non-toxic' though. 

    And i'm a thousand percent sure that if he is buying something marked 'veggie oil', then it's likely  veggie oil that he's using, but he didn't imply that


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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    That was my implication.
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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    Also I implied using canola oil.  Google it.  As an amateur lumberjack, as least as it goes with occasional chain sawing and pressing of wild flowers, i have observed my saw sprays no small amount of oil.
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  • Carolina Q
    Carolina Q Posts: 14,831
    Darby_Crenshaw said:
    Would imagine the amount of oil on any wood is infinitesimal. But some folks love to have something to worry about. ;)
    Yeah, this. 

    I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    Maybe it's my saw but I had to throw a bunch of smoke wood into the fire pit because it stunk like 1971 Chevrolet Vega when I burned it in the egg.  To be fair, I was using engine oil to lube the chain and I was cutting every 2 inches on the logs.
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  • DMW
    DMW Posts: 13,836
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 34,580
    if i was using my chainsaw to scallop potatoes or carve a turkey, then maybe canola...... =)  mine doesnt spray much oil at all, just used it notching posts on my new woodshed and didnt see any oil on the wood
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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    Mine sprays like a mofo and leaves visible oil on the wood.  Some saws go through a tank of oil per tank of gas.  I'm just recounting my own personal experience.  

    No good smoke wood supplier uses petroleum oil on their saws.  Why would you use Match light when you have a purer alternative?

    From Fruita Wood:


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  • Thatgrimguy
    Thatgrimguy Posts: 4,738
    This is why I chainsaw the big stuff, then split and use a sawzaw to reduce them to chunks. No oil, no gas.
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