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Florida We had a super week training with Florida Water Management District near New Port Richey and then at an open house and demonstration at Amsler’s in Brooksville, FL on Saturday January 15th. This is about the 15th year of being associated with Amsler’s Open House. Thank you Tim, Charlene, Theresa and Tammy for letting us take part! It was great seeing all our old and some new friends…. There were 35 or more attending the demo and some great BBQ prepared by Jason and Theresa. The Amsler's are organizing a three day hands on session for later this Spring. If you are interested in taking part let them know or send a message to us at info@forestapps.com with your interest and someone will be back to you with details. The workshop will be held in the Brooksville, FL area and cost around $450 per person. The group size will be limited to 12 participants. TOH Did you see the latest episode of Ask This Old House on Chain Sharpening and Safety? If you have seen the show let us know… place TOH in the subject and send to info@forestapps.com The products shown on the TOH segment are the Elvex® Tectra Helmet as part of the ProGuard System and the Prolar material Saw Chaps. You can find out more at www.Elvex.com . The sharpening device kit is from Oregon® Cutting Systems and is called the PowerSharp. You can find more on it at www.powersharp.com and our ForestApps website. Winter Schedule We still have training dates open in February. If you are considering a chain saw safety program for this year it would be a great time to start before schedules fill up. Contact Laura@forestapps.com for more information. Calendar- The new listing of events will be going up on our website calendar in the next few days. It's going to be a busy year of training travel and we are looking forward to seeing you at an event close to your place... Click Events from our website homepage. ForestApps eBook - Many of you are probably picking up an eBook reader from under the tree this year. Make sure to fill your library with a version of the "The Complete Guide to Chainsaw Safety and Directional Felling". Its available from Barnes and Noble and our website eStore for download. See the links on our homepage.... eStore - If you need TruFuel, sharpening tools or PPE items for yourself, crews or upcoming training, visit our endorsed products links and our eStore. Thank you for your patronage! eStore Good Sawing! Tim	Available at your local dealer or at the ForestApps eStore! Ask This Old House with Tim Airing Now across the Nation. Check your local TV listings... Episode 913
This Week's Article... Old Gas… By Tim Ard, Forest Applications Training, Inc. Questions keep coming up on fuel related issues by email and during training presentations. The issues involving gasoline and gasoline with ethanol are on everyone’s topic list and most have experienced some form of negative from it. Shops are full of equipment that have been stored several months with ethanol fuel in the tank or operators are pouring in fuel from their gas can not thinking about how “dead” the old fuel is and how much moisture has collected while sitting around. With 10% or more ethanol fuel being the norm now at the station pump, it is affecting us more this year than ever. In years past the stations were here and there with ethanol fuel, now just about every station is selling only ethanol-enriched fuel. Luckily the 15% and more ratios are not in place yet or we would really be feeling the effects. I’ve mentioned before how ethanol fuels, of more than about 12%, will not adjust in your small equipment, especially two-cycle chainsaws and trimmers. It collects moisture that works to separate the oil in your mixture and when it sits around, erodes fuel lines, aluminum/magnesium parts in your carburetor and engine crankcase. It also causes the combustion process to detonate when it looses volatility, pounding on your internal engine parts of piston, rod and bearings and it leans out the carburetor adjustments. Even in its in-between stages it causes over speeding concerns too that can end in seizure of your piston and cylinder. You need to seek fuel without ethanol. If not, use some type of stabilizer or enzyme formula that will help to deal with some of these problems. Be careful however, that you read directions carefully and mix everything as it’s meant to be or you can create other problems. I feel one of the greatest and easiest ways to deal with the two-cycle fuel issue is to use a premixed fuel such as TruSouth Oil’s 50Fuel or TruFuel products. I have a saw that was used during our train the trainer workshop the middle of last April (2010). I put the saw up in the shop with a tank half full of 50Fuel. I took it to Florida to use at the Amsler’s Saw Safety Day. I was a little concerned that it wouldn’t start so I made sure I loaded a working backup. I was a little skeptical to say the least. I decided for my confidence to put 50Fuel on the spot, to start the saw for the first time at the demo in Brooksville in front of the crowd. I remind you this saw has been sitting with 50Fuel in the tank for over 8 months without ever being started. I pulled the rope on the saw three times. It started and ran like it has always! TruSouth Oil’s 50Fuel is an awesome product! I highly recommend you use it as many companies and individual saw operators are today. You will find you can afford it! Good Sawing! © Copyright 2015 Forest Applications Training, Inc.	Sign up for our ChainPoint eNewsletter www.ForestApps.com ForestApps Blog Twitter - @ForestApps Facebook - Forest Applications or Tim Ard Contact us - info@forestapps.com Ph 770.543.9862

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January 12, 2015

Florida
We had a super week training with Florida Water Management District near New Port Richey and then at an open house and demonstration at Amsler’s in Brooksville, FL on Saturday January 15th. This is about the 15th year of being associated with Amsler’s Open House. Thank you Tim, Charlene, Theresa and Tammy for letting us take part! It was great seeing all our old and some new friends…. There were 35 or more attending the demo and some great BBQ prepared by Jason and Theresa.

The Amsler's are organizing a three day hands on session for later this Spring. If you are interested in taking part let them know or send a message to us at info@forestapps.com with your interest and someone will be back to you with details. The workshop will be held in the Brooksville, FL area and cost around $450 per person. The group size will be limited to 12 participants.

TOH
Did you see the latest episode of Ask This Old House on Chain Sharpening and Safety? If you have seen the show let us know… place TOH in the subject and send to info@forestapps.com

The products shown on the TOH segment are the Elvex® Tectra Helmet as part of the ProGuard System and the Prolar material Saw Chaps. You can find out more at www.Elvex.com . The sharpening device kit is from Oregon® Cutting Systems and is called the PowerSharp. You can find more on it at www.powersharp.com and our ForestApps website.

Winter Schedule
We still have training dates open in February. If you are considering a chain saw safety program for this year it would be a great time to start before schedules fill up. Contact Laura@forestapps.com for more information.

Calendar- The new listing of events will be going up on our website calendar in the next few days. It's going to be a busy year of training travel and we are looking forward to seeing you at an event close to your place... Click Events from our website homepage.

ForestApps eBook - Many of you are probably picking up an eBook reader from under the tree this year. Make sure to fill your library with a version of the "The Complete Guide to Chainsaw Safety and Directional Felling". Its available from Barnes and Noble and our website eStore for download. See the links on our homepage....

eStore - If you need TruFuel, sharpening tools or PPE items for yourself, crews or upcoming training, visit our endorsed products links and our eStore. Thank you for your patronage! eStore

Good Sawing!

Tim

Available at your local dealer or at the ForestApps eStore!

TOH1

Ask This Old House with Tim

Airing Now across the Nation. Check your local TV listings... Episode 913

Amsler's Safety Day

This Week's Article...

Old Gas…
By Tim Ard, Forest Applications Training, Inc.

Questions keep coming up on fuel related issues by email and during training presentations. The issues involving gasoline and gasoline with ethanol are on everyone’s topic list and most have experienced some form of negative from it.

Shops are full of equipment that have been stored several months with ethanol fuel in the tank or operators are pouring in fuel from their gas can not thinking about how “dead” the old fuel is and how much moisture has collected while sitting around.

With 10% or more ethanol fuel being the norm now at the station pump, it is affecting us more this year than ever. In years past the stations were here and there with ethanol fuel, now just about every station is selling only ethanol-enriched fuel. Luckily the 15% and more ratios are not in place yet or we would really be feeling the effects.
I’ve mentioned before how ethanol fuels, of more than about 12%, will not adjust in your small equipment, especially two-cycle chainsaws and trimmers. It collects moisture that works to separate the oil in your mixture and when it sits around, erodes fuel lines, aluminum/magnesium parts in your carburetor and engine crankcase. It also causes the combustion process to detonate when it looses volatility, pounding on your internal engine parts of piston, rod and bearings and it leans out the carburetor adjustments. Even in its in-between stages it causes over speeding concerns too that can end in seizure of your piston and cylinder.

You need to seek fuel without ethanol. If not, use some type of stabilizer or enzyme formula that will help to deal with some of these problems. Be careful however, that you read directions carefully and mix everything as it’s meant to be or you can create other problems. I feel one of the greatest and easiest ways to deal with the two-cycle fuel issue is to use a premixed fuel such as TruSouth Oil’s 50Fuel or TruFuel products.

I have a saw that was used during our train the trainer workshop the middle of last April (2010). I put the saw up in the shop with a tank half full of 50Fuel. I took it to Florida to use at the Amsler’s Saw Safety Day. I was a little concerned that it wouldn’t start so I made sure I loaded a working backup. I was a little skeptical to say the least.

I decided for my confidence to put 50Fuel on the spot, to start the saw for the first time at the demo in Brooksville in front of the crowd. I remind you this saw has been sitting with 50Fuel in the tank for over 8 months without ever being started.

I pulled the rope on the saw three times. It started and ran like it has always! TruSouth Oil’s 50Fuel is an awesome product! I highly recommend you use it as many companies and individual saw operators are today. You will find you can afford it!

Good Sawing!

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