We all know that sex sells, but this is truly ridiculous. We ran out of chainsaw oil this weekend, so I popped onto eBay and Amazon to buy some more.
I started scrolling past the first few listings and it was all the usual suspects: Stihl, Oregon, etc. Halfway down the first page, I had to do a double take. There was a product called Sexy Chainsaw Oil.
What? Lo and behold, the branding has a topless woman (the photo has been blurred and censored on eBay and Amazon).
There is actually a company that manufacturers, brands and sells a product called Sexy Chainsaw Oil and I’m not entirely sure who their target demographic is.
Surely it must be highly embarrassing having a huge 25 litre bottle of power tool lubricant sporting a naked woman displayed on a shelf in your garage; not to mention inappropriate if you’re married and have children.
But there clearly must be a market because at time of writing, 301 of these 25 litre bottles had been sold on eBay. And not only must there be a market, they have a full-blown product line of sexy chainsaw lubricants with different girls to help differentiate their product offerings. It’s quite astonishing.
Rather prudishly I purchased an unsexy chainsaw oil from Oregon, sans nudity. The world’s unsexiest chainsaw oil?
Hi, I just wanted to comment on your choice of chainsaw oil.
While the oil itself will certainly do an excellent service it is non-biodegradable mineral oil.
While the bio-oils have some shortcomings on infrequently used chainsaws (gumming) they are deemed suitable for frequently used chainsaws.
Greetings from the continent
Thank you for the comments and feedback Martin. Greatly appreciated. Is there a brand of chainsaw oil you’d recommend?
If you regularly use use your chainsaw (replacing the oil tank content every few months) every decent bio oil should do.
Otherwise, I would use something like the Husqvarna X-Guard bio chain oil. Strangely don’t claim to prevent gumming on their English site they , contrary to their German site.