Sunrise Guy
Addicted to ArboristSite
This is a serious question about a serious problem: Does anyone out there know if anyone is making electric starters for light saws like the 192T and/or heavier saws like the MS-460? After over twenty years in the biz, I am probably going to have to bail if I need to keep yanking the damn cords. The left bursa under my left scapula has collapsed and my ribs are separating from my sternum due to the forces applied to these areas each time I have to start up my saws. I wake up in true agony most nights and I can't keep enduring this crap. While I have been laughing it off for years, at 58 the pain has gotten too old to keep that up. My hot tub helps, but not to the point of great relief, anymore. I found an article in an old Popular Science magazine from 1966 (Popular Science - Google Books) that featured a saw with an electric starter. It was going for about $270, back then, which would be like $1800, today, according to an online converter. Money is no object, within reason, as it's either find electric starters or quit my active involvement with the biz. I climb for my company.