Rocosil
ArboristSite Member
Addendum
I just got through talking with a pro logger I know. I asked him if he'd had any problems with E10 in his saws and he said that, so far, he hadn't, but that of late he's had to adjust the idle down on all of them. That made me remember that I had to do the same thing to my saws when I started bucking firewood again a couple of weeks ago.
I told him my tale of woe, and he said he was going to re-tune his saws to let them run a bit richer and that he would be adding Sta-Bil Ethanol Treatment to his mix from now on. He found out about the stuff from a snowmobile dealer who has a bunch of machines with blown heads from E10 sitting on his lot and a 500 gallon fuel tank full of spoiled (separated) E10. My logger friend has been using it in his snowmobile and is satisfied that it is doing the job for him. So, I went out and bought a bottle of it at NAPA. This is not the pink Sta-Bil stabilizer we are all familiar with, but rather dark blue and has "Marine Formula" on the label. The store I went to didn't have it on their shelves, but was keeping it under the counter because the supply wasn't keeping up with demand, and they were doling it out one bottle at a time to known customers.
I just got through talking with a pro logger I know. I asked him if he'd had any problems with E10 in his saws and he said that, so far, he hadn't, but that of late he's had to adjust the idle down on all of them. That made me remember that I had to do the same thing to my saws when I started bucking firewood again a couple of weeks ago.
I told him my tale of woe, and he said he was going to re-tune his saws to let them run a bit richer and that he would be adding Sta-Bil Ethanol Treatment to his mix from now on. He found out about the stuff from a snowmobile dealer who has a bunch of machines with blown heads from E10 sitting on his lot and a 500 gallon fuel tank full of spoiled (separated) E10. My logger friend has been using it in his snowmobile and is satisfied that it is doing the job for him. So, I went out and bought a bottle of it at NAPA. This is not the pink Sta-Bil stabilizer we are all familiar with, but rather dark blue and has "Marine Formula" on the label. The store I went to didn't have it on their shelves, but was keeping it under the counter because the supply wasn't keeping up with demand, and they were doling it out one bottle at a time to known customers.