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Auto chain oiler, Walmart oil

Bruce from Can.

Bruce from Can.

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Woodville, Ontario, Canada
My baler has a auto chain oiler that gives the chains all a drink every bale. Resevoir holds about enough oil for 200 bales. I give it Walmarts 10W30 . Might not want to run it in your crankcase , but fine for oiling chains, 50% the cost of oil from equipment dealers. Bruce
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While the debate on which oil is the best goes on and on most of us use what is available and affordable. That Walmart oil will work good to keep your baler chain lubed and it would do a good job in any crankcase that required that standard type of oil. There are only a few refineries in the US and Canada that produce oil and none of them want to produce a class action lawsuit do to the failure of there product.
 
(quoted from post at 08:10:21 07/31/17) While the debate on which oil is the best goes on and on most of us use what is available and affordable. That Walmart oil will work good to keep your baler chain lubed and it would do a good job in any crankcase that required that standard type of oil. There are only a few refineries in the US and Canada that produce oil and none of them want to produce a class action lawsuit do to the failure of there product.
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Not quite true. The refineries will blend in the additives in the desired amounts for each company they bottle for. So if you and I were both selling oil under our own brand names I could elect to add just enough of the required additives to achieve minimum standards while you could elect not only to go over say 10% for better protection but you may chose to put in other optional additives that I don't. Sure I can either sell for less or have a greater profit margin but in the end my customers who wish to get the max usage out of their vehicle/lawn mower/tractor don't get the extended life they would have gotten had they purchased your oil. That info comes from a petro chemical engineer I went to high school with. I'll take his word for it. I was visiting with him just yesterday as he's in the area on vacation.

Rick
 
I was wondering if chain saw bar oil would work in applications like that or is it too thick to use the applicator. I also had a 1972 Kawasaki motorcycle with a chain oiler. Not sure what kind of oil I used at that time, as it was over 40 years ago. I do remember I needed to check to make sure it would shut off or it would drain the reservoir. About a pint if I remember right.
 
I use used motor oil on my 855 NH, that's even what the manual says to use.

Although when I put it away for the year I'll put new/clean chainsaw bar and chain oil on it...maybe not necessary, but it makes me feel better.

What kind of baler is that? Do they want to sell you chain oil?

Fred
 
I think they want you to use new clean oil so that the dirty oil doesn't plug up the lines and the metering system . Some chains a long , some are short , some fast , some slow , and you can adjust the flow rates to different chains . I have always lubed roller chain with old used oil in the past too. Never had a auto lube before , it calls for clean oil, don't want to mess it up, it works good.
 
It is a Kubota baler, formally Knvernlands/Vicon. Kubota bought out the Knvernland hay tools line a year or two ago, same baler, built in the same plant, with new owner, and Kubota name on the side. I don't think they have any interest in selling chain oil. Just want you to use clean oil to keep it working. This baler also has grease able bearing , not the sealed bearings like on the NH and CaseIH balers, that fail and catch fire.
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(quoted from post at 07:34:10 07/31/17) My baler has a auto chain oiler that gives the chains all a drink every bale. Resevoir holds about enough oil for 200 bales. I give it Walmarts 10W30 . Might not want to run it in your crankcase , but fine for oiling chains, 50% the cost of oil from equipment dealers. Bruce
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I saw a report of tests done on all of the major oil brands and they were quite surprised (as I was) to find that Walmart's 'house brand' rated WAY up there! It rated in the top five, as I recall. :shock:
 
mj,
Please post a link to your test results.

I've always wondered how good off brands are.

People at walmart showed me with their hand held
scanners where different products come from.

Good chance the walmart brand stuff come from the
same place they are sitting next too and much
cheaper.

I use cheaper rural king oil, $1.79 in my older
tractors. 10w30 or 10w40 is recommended in my
terramite's hydraulics, 10 gallons. It also
recommended to change it every 300 hours. It seems
to work as well as the brand name oils.

We only have a few oil refinerys in USA, so good
chance it all comes from the same place. Many have
the same ratings.
 
You might want to check out buying oil in a 55 gal drum,I can get top grade diesel engine oil cheaper per qt that way than the cheapest motor oil in qt containers even going to
4 qt containers cuts the price some over 1 qts.
 
Nice

And yeah, I'm fairly paranoid about the bearings in my 30+ year old baler. I check them every now and then with an infrared thermometer, a lot faster than when I used to check them by feel.

Keeping in mind I run old equipment, I'm pretty impressed with your balers chain oilers, not used to seeing that on farm equipment. they were thinking when they built the thing.

Fred
 
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