[Dale Wiley]

We generally fill all riding or mounted equipment from the fuel tank in the foreman's truck. If it goes into the mowers or other equipment, then it does not get 2 cycle oil in it.

If the fuel goes into a container, our standard procedure is that it gets 2 cycle oil in it. That gets dumped into the 2 cycle equipment, small engine 4 strokes. If the mower needs fuel in the field, it gets the 2 stroke mix, the generator, anything else. I only have about 4 pieces of 2 stroke, everything else is larger and 4 stroke.

Synthetic 2 cycle oil is far superior to normal base 2 cycle oil. At 50:1 ratio, the 4 strokes never notice it. It costs more, but I really don't care if it prevents a 2 stroke engine failure. Easily checked as the color tells you everything.

My policy is if you blatantly do something to ruin a piece of equipment such as wrong gas or running without oil then I am taking half the cost out of your check.

Blatently means you have a training program problem. Taking the cost of a repair or ANY cost out of an employees check without a signed pre authorization is a violation of most state labor laws.

Your guys need to be trained to call you anytime there is a problem NO MATTER HOW SMALL, so you can be in on the solution to protect yourself.

Not in my company they better not. I set up the training and operations systems to protect the company. The employees know what they can do or not do, and my foreman get's the call before I do.

If the employees are trained to operate in a system, there will be a level of issues or situation's they should be empowered to deal with before calling the foreman or myself. My foreman has dealt with most situations very well, and left me free to do the project management, sales, business planning and minor admin chores.