Old WoodChip

My haix went exactly the same, hardly worn and spent more time in the rack than on my feet, wasnt used in a work environment must now I'm just pottering. Got in touch with Haix and all they said was return them to germany and we will let you know the cost. I did honestly expect more from a top boot. Never will I buy another Haix. My son had a pair of dewalt work boots and the soles just went the same, only a year old and not abused, dewalt said they were only designed to last 6 months...... really🤯 When I get a boot I expect it to last, or maybe I'm just old and the modern trend is to keep buying new🤔

Here is an update. After repeated attempts to see the can the fuel was in for myself, I was fobbed off so many times I come to the conclusion the container was either contaminated before aspen was tipped into it or just plain lies. It would be very difficult to see fuel separated looking down the filler hole, especially with glasses on that dont focus that close. Yes it looks like a concocted story thought up in an allotment shed out of pure boredom 🤔. Every Aspen 5L I have had has always been 100% perfect & I have converted more that a few into using it, I will never return to pump petrol it's just too much hassle when aspen is left in all my saws for very long periods at a time and always start and run well.

Thanks Axel, yes I agree with you things dont add up. I been using Aspen years and never seen or heard of anything like it with Aspen, I think he is not telling me the whole story and I still havent seen it myself dispite asking to see it several time.

I'm not worried it's not mine I was just curios and wondered if it is oil or water? All I know for sure is he gets it the same place I get mine and all containers are sealed. Last one I had I think was £18.

i'm waiting to see it tipped into a clean glass jar but thats a bit slow appearing so my gut feeling 🤥 is I am not being told the truth here....... we will see & I will update you as soon as. Thanks for the input 🙂

Exactly what happened to my Haix, and in a very short time! I have had these a while but so far was great boots very comfortable until one day! they were fine and a few hours later I took them off and the sole was ok but under that was just crumbling, you couldnt even repair it. Contacted Haix and the message back was post them to germany and you will be sent a price for repair? very open ended that! And knowing a german importer of unrelated products who has since stopped sending to uk because its so much hassle I'm thinking if I had them repaired and have to pay more to get them back I may as well but new. NO WAY I will never buy Haix again, I did try others but same size in Arbotec and they are like a size smaller. Yet again we are all paying for over priced crap and everyone accepts it, sign of the times i'm afraid and also guilty. But Haix will never see my money again. To me a good pair of boots should last a lot longer than a few months, I expect years or they are not fit for purpose (to me) Years ago I had a good pair of chainsaw forestry boots from Michel Richman and they lasted years, and I mean years, no fancy stuff just padded ankle steel toe covered in rubber & the usual chain stop stuff, just good leather made in uk! Them were the days 😇

My brother in law has a 5L can of Aspen2 it's only used in his firewood saw so it lasts a long time. I havent seen it yet so dont shoot the messenger, he said the oil has seperated from the fuel? Straight away I'm thinking has it been tipped out then back into the can and picked up water from another tank, (he said it hasnt been transferred) but that was only my first thought. Until I see it I cant be sure but has anyone noticed oil separation in the cold weather. Personally I havent seen it since the 70s with oils being much better these days. And water in Aspen, no I cant see that either. Thanks in advance

it didnt get that far, yes genuine is the way to go

Back last winter I sent for one of them cheap copies and though for the price it was worth a try (big mistake) So it arrived looking the part, then thought the break handled looked an odd angle, fitted it and soon found there was no way this was going to work. When the break was activated the handle was in the right place for using the saw?, put the break off and it was tight to the handle, no room for you hand!. Head scratching time. Took it to bits, very flimbsy but ok it was cheap.😕 Well the outcome was I had a replacement sent, which was exactly the same, so sent back and had a refund with them saying "must have been a faulty batch" .... it does happen I suppose.😩 So last week I wanted a few bits and it was almost as cheap to get them with a clutch cover as on their own and surely I wont end up with another piece of crap. The package arrived yesterday so last night I went to fit it, this time it came in two part with a small bag of fittings, no problem a two minuet job. Not a chance it was almost the same, not exactly at least you could hold the handle. So I decided to take the original Husqvarna break apart to compare, ok it was much better made and probably why its lasted 30 years, what was noticed was the pin (now this is hard to explain if you havent seen the workings) and it is what the activator part rubs on, it should still work but it was temperamental but all of a sudden it started working 😀 and at that point I thought "cracked it" time to leave it now and call it a night. Today it was on the bench looking nice and new and thought sod it, I will put it on the saw and give it a run. No chance it was exactly as the first, so now im thinking it would have saved money buying a genuine part first as last, and at my age I really should know better but the thought of having it so cheap was just too much. Has anyone else had these working out of the box or needed any work to make it useable? But to be honest it looks the part, just in reality it total crap. If you read this far, thanks for your patients 😇

new is not always best & these days things get updated so fast. They just want you to buy new, I have saws from 1987 and all working fine, they were made to last and do a job. This new stuff is made to do a job but not last...... where will the battery saws be in ten years time? left under the bench all dead

Been running two husqvarnas 254 & 266 since mid - late 1980s plus clearing saw & strimmer all at 50/1. Oregon oil to start with then husqvarna oil and pump petrol. Then changed to Aspen 2 ran it for ages, stripped my saws and all were well lubed and very clean, some times I buy Aspen 4 and mix my own 50/1 with husqvarna oil. I often wonder how long a synthetic oil would last on the shelf compared to a mineral oil (both two stroke oils) but if your using a saw regular that dont come into it, mine are run now to play with nothing more. I enjoy it when I take all my saws out and give them a good run and all are cleaned and put away ready for next time. It's one of the pleasures of being retired and having a heart attack, I just clean up wind blown trees on a mates farm so he has plenty of logs in store.

254 is a great saw, had mine 20 odd years and runs now the same as it did all them years ago. Shame they dont make them the same, its all very well having the fancy carrot to temp you into buying the latest and the up and coming youngsters are lured into a throw away world, inventing the wheel comes to mind. Very happy with my old 254 , nice and simple to service no fancy electronic gadgetry...... except the heatded handles, one has to have a little comfort when we get old :-)

Heart attack stopped play, no more climbing no more carrying wood, but above all a long spell laying in hospital thinking all this chasing money and worrying about bills and if enough work comes in really dont matter. What does matter is family & friends and you really get to know who your friends are for sure. I have never been over weight, drank, smoked but always worked hard & enjoyed doing it. So when your young cram in as much as you can because one day, it will all change. Like it did for a mate of mine last week, he was 41 and died cutting wood for the fire. Enjoy it when you can ;-)

I also know a 70 year old, still goes up a ladder to cut branched and a disaster just waiting to happen. I recently fixed one of his saws that was chucking out oil & petrol, as much as I have tried to educate him that putting straight petrol into the saw then adding oil by guesswork is costing him more in the long run. The plug was so black and choked up it needed a good clean out. Will he change, not as long as I got a hole in my a@@@. Another farmer is so mean he only buys chains at boot sales, if they fit or not they have to be a bargain....Right!! And to lubricate these wonderful bargains he uses old black engine oil, the way he looks at it is; it gets thrown off anyway? Both of these will happily spend all day pulling and swearing at the saw when it either wont start or starts but wont cut. Some people are set in their ways but I gave up trying to explain and not going to offer to fix the saw again, you cant educate those who wont listen.

cant understand someone spending all that money on a top saw then cant afford to use Aspen 2:confused1: It may cost a few pound more but is that not worth the hassle your having with fuel cans and oil. Maybe increase prices to cover the fuel Never use anything but Aspen now but im retired sort of