[Vwdiesel] Tradeoffs and Cheap Lube (long)

[James Hansen]

So What are their opinions of synthetic? Tried any taste tests?
Never had a bear eat a gas can, but one did eat the tailight off the trailer
we lived in up there. And yeah, a few jugs of delo had some tooth marks in
them, and lost a seat off the cat once.  Friend had a restaurant just out of
Dawson City, the griz would do anything to get at the canola oil. Anything.
Through walls, drums, you name it.  Only annoying little black bears that
you cuff out of the way where i live, but I spent many summers elsewhere
mining in the Yukon in Griz country. No cuffin them.
I would suspect the canola oil spray from the bar was on your clothes and
acted as an attractant to a degree, hence the gas tank, et al.
They hang streamers from the windows in Minnesota?  Seems to help.
-James

> -----Original Message-----
> From: vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com [mailto:vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com]On
> Behalf Of Harmon Seaver
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 11:34 PM
> To: VW-Diesel List
> Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Tradeoffs and Cheap Lube (long)
>
>
>    I don't know what kind of bears you got up there, but in
> Minnesota the bears
> will eat your regular commercial bar oil, no problem. Also any
> cans or jugs of
> engine oil sitting around, and even eat the hydraulic hoses off a
> skidder or
> cat. When I was logging, I learned early on that I couldn't leave
> my gas and oil
> jugs out on the job (I used to use two plastic gallon jugs, one
> for fuel, one
> for bar oil, tied together so they were easy to carry) or I'd
> come to work to
> find them full of bear tooth holes. One time I broke down with my
> crawler way
> out in the woods, walked back, then road my Kawasaki dirt bike
> back with the
> part I needed, so had to leave the bike there. Came back the next
> day to find a
> bear had tried to eat the bike's plastic gas tank.
>     A guy I knew had a bear break in his cabin to get the food, so he quit
> leaving food, even canned food in there when he was gone for
> awhile. So a bear
> broke in and ate the grease trap off the sink. Heck, for that
> matter, not too
> far away from us a bear grabbed a 14yr.old boy out camping with a
> couple of his
> buddies and ate him.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 10:46:14PM -0600, James Hansen wrote:
> > Except in winterm, or in bear country.  It gets too stiff in
> winter.  Also,
> > canola oil smells like food to a bear.  Not being into spraying
> food smell
> > about while running a noisy engine wearing earmuffs and
> completely tuning
> > out except for what I'm doing...  mebbe in the bush country,
> the bottle of
> > juice from the friendly neighborhood Stihl dealer is still best.
> >
> > -James (not a bear food kinda guy)
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com
> [mailto:vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com]On
> > > Behalf Of Harmon Seaver
> > > Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 9:07 PM
> > > To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
> > > Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Tradeoffs and Cheap Lube (long)
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 06:13:33PM -0700, Shawn Wright wrote:
> > > >
> > > > In a pinch, some of this could be used a chainsaw bar oil... I
> > > still can't find my jug of
> > > > chain oil, and the used oil jugs were handy, and well, I was in
> > > a rush, so...
> > > >
> > > > Really, it can't be *that* much worse for the environment than
> > > new chain oil can
> > > > it?...
> > > >
> > >
> > >    The best chainsaw bar oil is canola.
> > >
> > >
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