How many people use Aspen?

[scotspine1]

I've decided to switch to Aspen in all my saws from this week on.

 

Finally got sick of breathing in the thick blue acrid smoke when making the last cut on a stump on a calm day - or cross cutting logs in a confined space. dont care about the cost, the customer will be paying for it anyway, also dont care about any long term effects on any of the saws either (thats if there is any, but I can't imagine what there would be, if anything it should be better for your saws than regular unleaded)

 

So thats it.

 

Cheers Aspen.

[geoff]

I switched over a while back,& everything runs fine on it,old & new.

A couple of my smaller saws wanted a bit of carb adjustment but thats it,& I run 10+ saws.

A few lads that contract to me from time to time fill up on my aspen,even though they dont use it exclusively themselves,& no reports of problems from them either.(mainly top handle 200 & 201).

I run echo husky & stihl,and a four stroke honda blower hover mower & strimmer on the relevent aspen.

[scotspine1]

I switched over a while back,& everything runs fine on it,old & new.

A couple of my smaller saws wanted a bit of carb adjustment but thats it,& I run 10+ saws.

A few lads that contract to me from time to time fill up on my aspen,even though they dont use it exclusively themselves,& no reports of problems from them either.(mainly top handle 200 & 201).

I run echo husky & stihl,and a four stroke honda blower hover mower & strimmer on the relevent aspen.

 

good to know, cheers.

[GardenKit]

Two very positive posts there from Scotspine1 and Geoff.

 

I have swapped over a lot of machines to Aspen this week, with only one needing any adjustment, which to be honest, it probably would have needed to stay on petrol anyway.

[agg221]

I switched over a while back,& everything runs fine on it,old & new.

A couple of my smaller saws wanted a bit of carb adjustment but thats it,& I run 10+ saws.

A few lads that contract to me from time to time fill up on my aspen,even though they dont use it exclusively themselves,& no reports of problems from them either.(mainly top handle 200 & 201).

I run echo husky & stihl,and a four stroke honda blower hover mower & strimmer on the relevent aspen.

 

Your old Allen Scythe runs quite happily on it too. I will shortly be trying it out in my 'new' chainsaw of similar vintage...

 

Alec

[Czlowiek Drzewo]

would love to use it but its to expensive.

 

fuels from pertol etc have shown to cause cancer and it also reduces testostorone levels which is really bad and makes you more prone to many of ailments .

[treequip]

would love to use it but its to expensive.

 

fuels from pertol etc have shown to cause cancer and it also reduces testostorone levels which is really bad and makes you more prone to many of ailments .

 

Any documents we can read that up in?

[agg221]

Any documents we can read that up in?

 

Most journals are subscription only, however this is an interesting study in the public domain.

 

http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/145/5/449.full.pdf

 

Notes:

 

1. It's peer reviewed, in a high level journal.

2. The affiliations of the authors are broad, and not to institutions with vested interests.

3. The study group is reasonably large (19,000 people)

4. The study was funded by a group which, so far as I can establish, is not particularly politically motivated.

 

The concentration of benzene is comparable to the lower end of UK unleaded. The exposure levels are based on 8hr days, probably more incidence of exposure but lower peak concentrations (you can't taste the fumes at a petrol station like you can in 2-stroke exhaust). Hard to say what impact this may have.

 

Also worth noting the points in the discussion section relating to skin exposure and mouth-siphoning.

 

Alec

[GardenKit]

Study from 1993, ok its a bit old and very boring, but the last section sums it up well

 

http://publications.lib.chalmers.se/records/fulltext/local_72581.pdf