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<p class=MsoNormal>Hello Everyone!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I had a great trip to Portland this week. Looked at a lot of
new items to make saw work much better. Check out the article below.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I’m extending the special on the eBook though this
weekend on the download version ($9.99). Check it out on our eStore. You can be
reading it on your computer in just a few minutes after downloading.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>The Pferd Shipping Special ends the 28<sup>th</sup>….
Get to the eStore quick.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Good Sawing,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Tim Ard<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Forest Applications Training, Inc.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Phone: 770.222.2511<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.forestapps.com">http://www.forestapps.com</a>
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<p class=MsoNormal>We have an eStore for items discussed in our programs...
<a href="http://www.forestapps.com/e-book/eStore.htm" target="_blank">eStore</a>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Saw
Chain Rocks!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>By
Tim Ard, Forest Applications Training<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Imagine with me for just a
moment a situation at your work site that happens easily and way too often to chainsaw
operators. You cut through a limb or log near the ground, maybe on a rock or a
paved area, but you miss calculate and you pass through the wood and cut right
into the material below- Dull chain right? Powerfully Dull!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>It happened to me during a training
demonstration in north Georgia a few months back. I put together a great plan
to take down a tree that was most likely on an old home site. The tree had a
boxwood type woody plant growing around it. I began to clean around the tree so
I could begin the notch cut. In the first cuts in the brush, a rock jumped up
and hit my saw chain. Have you ever seen rocks jump? It’s happened to me
a couple times over the past thirty years of saw operation (lie- a hundred
times). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>No the rock didn't jump up
but it did show up in the wrong place and I dulled terribly ever cutter point
on one side of the chain. Immediately I realized the situation wasn't conducive
to completing the tree fall and I had to stop and sharpen before moving on. By
the way, as a trained professional I told the group exactly what the problem
was as I pulled out my sharpening tools from my work vest. "Someone must
have hit something with my chain the other day!" That's always a good way
to substantiate the pause in action and quickly apply blame. I hoped no one saw
the sparks from the rock I had just carved into. Oh, that's comical isn't it?
Maybe now but not then, and how often that happens as we clean up debris with a
saw. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I recently experienced
something right before my eyes and in my own hands that during my career others
have attempted but didn't quite make it come together. That connection being a
rock and a saw chain that's positive and productive to chain saw
applications. Here are the findings that rocked me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I took a small chainsaw and
cut through a six inch log in about four and half seconds. Then I took the saw
and ran the tip into a concrete composite walkway and tried to cut. The time
slowed to over thirty seconds in the next cut (it still cut better than many
chainsaws in the field but it was rocked). I then clamped a device over the end
of the bar, started the saw, ran it up to full speed and pushed the end of the
device against the log for about 5 seconds. Turning off the saw, I removed the
clamshell like device, restarted the saw and returned to cutting four to five
second rounds again. Yeauh, that's what I said! I sharpened the chain in 5
seconds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The new chain is an extended
pitch 3/8 chain much like most of you have on your smaller cc chain saws. The
cutter is completely different though, it sharpens from the top of the cutter
instead of underneath the top. It looks like a short, short cutter but you have
to understand that the tooth length is vertical and not horizontal. Most chains
and onboard sharpening systems that I have tried over the years were or seemed
to be slower cutting and most of all very aggressive when you consider reactive
forces. The use of the tip in plunge cut techniques using the nose of the bar
was virtually impossible. This chain meets ANSI tests and is designed to run on
a multitude of chain saws on the market. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This product will be sold as
an accessory kit to fit your smaller chain saw and will be under $100 (actually
way below $100). The kit includes a guide bar, saw chain and a stone sharpening
device that goes into the bar tip clamshell device. When the chain life is
complete, about a dozen sharpening’s, you only replace or purchase a new
chain and it will come with a new sharpening stone. You simply reuse the
clamshell device for many sharpening’s, like forever. In this process I
think you will also be amazed at the life increase in your guide bar when you
always run sharp chain. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This chain cuts fast, smooth
and bore cuts are very doable. I was overwhelmingly impressed! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>You can take this system to
the woods, around the town, your backyard or even up a tree and you are always
a few seconds away from a sharp-- properly sharpened saw. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>By the way, if your spouse
or significant other has a strong desire for diamonds for their birthday, anniversary
or upcoming special occasion gift- you can have your stone and hit it too, so
to speak. Invest in diamonds and sharpening power at your local Oregon® Saw
Chain and Accessory Retailer. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Find out more about this
great new accessory for your chain saw (maybe Pole Saw?) and diamonds at <a
href="http://www.PowerSharp.com">www.PowerSharp.com</a> . <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Oregon<sup>®</sup>
PowerSharp<sup>®</sup>! It Rocks!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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