One reason I use Aspen

[Rob74]

Used aspen for the first time today & I will not go back to petrol/oil mix.

The smell is just about non existent & I didn't have to get changed to do the school run, not to mention the fact that I can just put the saw in the shed after use & not worry about draining it. That's a win win for me

[GardenKit]

  Rob74 said:

Used aspen for the first time today & I will not go back to petrol/oil mix.

The smell is just about non existent & I didn't have to get changed to do the school run, not to mention the fact that I can just put the saw in the shed after use & not worry about draining it. That's a win win for me

That is really great to read, Rob, you almost certainly won't go back to pump fuel.

Aspen is the future,with pump petrol declining in quality as it is.

[Gray git]

Helped a mate out on Monday and he was running normal petrol with the old Red Sthil oil, I'd forgotten how much it stinks even from 20ft up the tree. So glad I made the change and stuck with it in all my gear.

[GardenKit]

I showed an exhaust port a few weeks ago from a machine run on Aspen.

 

I have now found a picture of another machine of a similar age and usage run on std petrol/oil mix.

It may well be that the oil was of inadequate quality or excessive quantity, but the result is still quite typical on engines using a pump fuel mix and not working flat out.

 

The clean one is of course the one on Aspen FRT.

 

[Richard 1234]

  GardenKit said:

I showed an exhaust port a few weeks ago from a machine run on Aspen.

 

 

 

I have now found a picture of another machine of a similar age and usage run on std petrol/oil mix.

 

It may well be that the oil was of inadequate quality or excessive quantity, but the result is still quite typical on engines using a pump fuel mix and not working flat out.

 

 

 

The clean one is of course the one on Aspen FRT.

 

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What kind of use is the bad one getting?

I'd say not very much for it to be that caked up in oil

[GardenKit]

  Richard 1234 said:

What kind of use is the bad one getting?

I'd say not very much for it to be that caked up in oil

The bad one has in fact had a lot of use, and a lot of fuel through it in its 2 year life. It belongs to a one man band commercial gardener and is in fact a long reach hedge cutter. The deposits are partly from the oil and partly from the fuel itself.

The build ups are particularly common in machines which are seldom used on WOT (wide open throttle) in tasks such as hedge trimming and strimming round lawn edges as the exhaust gas temperature is low and also the gas velocity.

Its the same deposits that block spark arrestors very quickly for the same reasons.

 

I used to see a lot of these, but now that a late percentage of my customers are using Aspen I see nowhere near as many.

[Richard 1234]

It makes me think I should be checking some of my machines out!

Mind you I don't like taking them to bits when they seem OK! Mind you I've swopped to aspen for the hedge cutters now!

[mendiplogs]

  GardenKit said:

The bad one has in fact had a lot of use, and a lot of fuel through it in its 2 year life. It belongs to a one man band commercial gardener and is in fact a long reach hedge cutter. The deposits are partly from the oil and partly from the fuel itself.

The build ups are particularly common in machines which are seldom used on WOT (wide open throttle) in tasks such as hedge trimming and strimming round lawn edges as the exhaust gas temperature is low and also the gas velocity.

Its the same deposits that block spark arrestors very quickly for the same reasons.

 

I used to see a lot of these, but now that a late percentage of my customers are using Aspen I see nowhere near as many.

 

Hi Barrie smells a lot better aspen ❤️❤️ and doesn't take your breath away like petrol thanks Jon

[Aunt Maud]

How much is it in the UK....It's about 17.00 for 5 litres of Aspen 2 here.

[Gerbutt]

I paid just under £19.