Thread: Storing Chainsaw Fuel Mixes

Not sure what is sold in California, but here in Georgia I use Sta-Bil in any gasoline other than in cars.
It is sold in Wal Mart here, and a 32-oz container is said to stabilize 80-gallons of gasoline for 12-months. I use it in gasoline that is for my chainsaw and lawn-tractor.
Seems to work for me.
Gil

Originally Posted by ticklingmedusa

A small gas powered Husqvarna came into my life. I have kept an electric for years.
Lots of wet weather here presently. How do you store fuel safely ?
Best way of telling if fuel is still okay to use after storage ?
Smart disposal?

OK buy a 4 litre or 1 gallon plastic fuel container, scepter in canada make a good one that has a spout that you can use for pouring the fuel into the saw. These are readily available.

mix only what you will use within about 1 to 2 weeks according to manufacturers instruction.

After 2 weeks put any left over fuel into your lawn mower.

Thats the way I do it. Do not try to store mixed fuel for long periods, and buy fresh fuel as it is required, i.e. the day you want to use it.

And DONT use steel fuel cans, that way to avoid condensation issues in your fuel. Had a chainsaw dealer once tell me that i had seized my saw and it needed to be rebuilt. All it was was water in the fuel from a steel can condensating in autumn months Thankfully this five star f....wit has since sold the business and now happy to use my local dealer again

thanks for the replys

Thankfully this five star f....wit I ll stealing that lol I ve got this great little bottle from bunnings it works a treat but then I only make my mix as I use it. If petrols been in my 5 litre container for a month then I use to spray an burn cane toads.

Originally Posted by Travis Edwards

After 2 weeks put any left over fuel into your lawn mower.

I know you are speaking metaphorically but not everyone has a two stroke mower or even a gas powered mover.
Mix can be burnt in a 4 stroke mower but they can only handle small amounts at any one tankful?
Also my mower runs off a 12V battery, but I do have a whipper snipper

The other way to get rid of it is fill up your petrol powered car with premium and put the old mix in with that. Do it the other way around and you can run into problems.

If you don't have anything that can use the mix then evaporate away the petrol and put the oil in a container and dispose of as waste oil

I only ever have 2-stoke fuel in plastic fuel containers. I then use the same fuel for my 4-stroke mower, 4-stroke snipper, 4-stroke pumps and 2-stoke chainsaws. I've done it this way for years and have not any performance or plug oiling problems. It also ensures my fuel is never too old and I can refuel the chainsaw without being worried I may have the wrong mix.

Originally Posted by BobL

I know you are speaking metaphorically but not everyone has a two stroke mower or even a gas powered mover.
Mix can be burnt in a 4 stroke mower but they can only handle small amounts at any one tankful?
Also my mower runs off a 12V battery, but I do have a whipper snipper

The other way to get rid of it is fill up your petrol powered car with premium and put the old mix in with that. Do it the other way around and you can run into problems.

If you don't have anything that can use the mix then evaporate away the petrol and put the oil in a container and dispose of as waste oil

I was not speaking metaphorically at all bob, my victa with the Briggs and Stratton notices no difference between the 2 stroke or standard unleaded and is my favorite way of disposing of any old fuel. The briggs and strattons are that low tech you could almost run them on kero,(actually some of the fuel the missus has brought home for it recently I reckon had a fair percentage of kero in it, bloody united servos.) I have even run my previous mower on byproducts of alcohol distillation, rather than throw away the methanol which is stilled off first I throw it in the mower. OH and my ryobi whipper snipper will not run on mix more than a week old for some reason.

Originally Posted by Travis Edwards

I was not speaking metaphorically at all bob, my victa with the Briggs and Stratton notices no difference between the 2 stroke or standard unleaded and is my favorite way of disposing of any old fuel. The briggs and strattons are that low tech you could almost run them on kero,(actually some of the fuel the missus has brought home for it recently I reckon had a fair percentage of kero in it, bloody united servos.)

Yeah, gotta love them B&S

I have even run my previous mower on byproducts of alcohol distillation, rather than throw away the methanol which is stilled off first I throw it in the mower.

So do you get a blast when you mow the lawn?

OH and my ryobi whipper snipper will not run on mix more than a week old for some reason.

Interesting about the ryobi, my stihl whipper snipper will run on 1 yr old fuel without a problem.