Russell,
I am not unfamiliar with linseed based, drying oil exterior wood stains. We have used your Wood Tux product on 4 different jobs, 2 PT SYP, 1 ipe', and 1 red mahogany. Just starting out, many years ago, I used Wolman's F&P for two straight years, mainly on PT, a linseed oil based stain. This year we did a cedar job with Armstrong-Clark, a combination of linseed oil and paraffinic oils.
In my experience, it takes much longer to correctly apply a drying oil stain. Contrary to your contention,
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The less material you use the more profitable you will be and that has little to do with the "price" of your materials.
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, the reality is the more sq. footage per hour stained, the more profitable you will be. Material price point agreed, as it is passed on to the customer.
Where the heck is Shane? That guy could spray more paraffinic Baker's Gray Away on fences than your 5 min. / 360 sq. ft. siding contractor. I can't, I'm getting too old!
But I disagree. Paraffinic oil stains are much faster and easier to apply correctly, certainly to softwoods which is the majority of work, than any drying linseed oil stain.