Just got a phonecall from my dad...

[Paragon Builder]

Of course this site has messed with my perception of normalcy. And my father called me on it a couple months ago. I'm sending out an ms460 to Mastermind and I told my dad I was excited to have him try it when I get it back. He said he had NO interest in a hopped up saw. His work just fine.
Note that my dad is 71 but uses chainsaws quite often. He burns about 12-15 cord a year.
A few weeks ago he said his little echo cs360 was having restart issues. So I took it home and while I had it I gutted the cat and trimmed the limiters and retuned it. I think he had fun out of gas cuz I found nothing wrong with it.
Anyways when I gave it to him I told hon to try it and he made one cut with it and said Wow, what did you do to the chain?
I said just a fresh edge on it, enjoy!
That was a couple weeks ago.
Today he calls me and says I just had to tell you that whatever you did to my saw really made it a joy to use. I've been cutting 12" maple all day with it and I feel like I'm cutting with my 261! This thing really rips! What the heck did you do to it?
Lol! Maybe he will try the 460 when I get it back after all!!!

 

[Duane(Pa)]

Double like!! If you are like me you might have pizzed him off a time or two? Nice way to show your a good son these days....

 

[Paragon Builder]

Double like!! If you are like me you might have pizzed him off a time or two? Nice way to show your a good son these days....

Never[emoji12]

 

[Rx7man]

People who don't like ported saws are people who've never run ported saws..

Sometimes you don't do it because you need more power, but because you can pack a lighter saw and get the same work done.. my 65's were slow torquey saws until I started messing with them.. they were seriously boring to run.. not anymore

 

[MustangMike]

I'm also sending Randy a ms 460. I am very impressed with the 044 he recently did for me with that "new recipe". It has exceeded my expectations, you would think it was a hybrid!

 

[Sagetown]

Hmmph! I'm 71. Wish my son had a 460 to send to Randy, so I could try it out.

 

[marne]

Proves, that performance gains from gutting are not a placebo-effect.
Dad-dyno proved.

Cheers

 

[drf255]

That's great!

Validates your efforts.