Tommy in Wilton
ArboristSite Member
About 3 weeks ago I bought a "muscle saw" on eBay after destroying two cheap $125 chainsaws from Lowes and Home Depot. I was confused and discouraged; They both basically burned up after small short use. I've since learned upon this website that these cheap Poulan and Homelite saws are basically disposable saws from Taiwan.
I've flown 747's over Taiwan, and was amazed; The haze was so bad each time that I couldn't see the ground. That haze was actually pollution. Taiwan today mimics Detroit in 1970: The sky is a different shade of orange every evening!
-For what ever reason, I feel the need to own a saw. I live in a house in Fort Lauderdale with 7 coconut palms, 2 queen palms, a palmetto, and a loquat. My partner owns 39 rental properties, so there are plenty more species of tree that I could come in contact with, including the nefarious "cats claw".
I figured I needed something better, and I was NOT impressed by the Stihl chainsaws that I saw at the big box stores. I own an older Porsche 928S2, which I use as a daily driver. This car amazes me! It is 27 years old, it has 154,000 miles, and I wouldn't hesitate to drive it the 3000 miles to Los Angeles tonight if I had to, since I'm sure it would make it. It is my baby, I work on it every night, and the minute something goes wrong, since I have such a strong knowledge [factory shop manuals from Germany are on a shelf in my garage: I paid $400 for these books 10 years ago] of the car...I fix it my self. I instantly know what is wrong, I never take it to the shop...and basically; There is so much of my blood from my cut knuckles soaked into the metal of that car that is probably now a blood relative!
Need not say, but yours truly is a CAR GUY.
And yet, the notion of finding a BETTER older saw, kind of like my 928S2...instantly came to mind and I started searching. I don't want the biggest saw in the world [I'm dealing with...palmettos!] I want the saw that kicks ass and takes names, but is easy to use and is something that you could lend your mother. The Porsche 928 and the McCulloch 250 for some reason to fit this bill. That 928 in my garage brought home a clothes dryer in its yawning hatchback last fall, when I found one on the cheap at a thrift store, and the only way that I could have gotten it is if I had taken it RIGHT THEN. One of my tenants had called and we had a dead dryer. I solved the problem on the cheap and probably saved $150 because my 928 was so versatile, and I suspect that the new saw [when I get it running; It has a carb adjustment problem] gets worked out, then it will work for me at our various rental properties, and just like me driving the 928 to Publix to pick up a couple of onions...the McCulloch 250 knocking down a traveller palm at one of my properties will see little but deliberate use!
My point: For some reason, some people like odd chainsaws. For the same reason, some people like odd old Porsche cars.
Go figure!
Thoughts-
T
I've flown 747's over Taiwan, and was amazed; The haze was so bad each time that I couldn't see the ground. That haze was actually pollution. Taiwan today mimics Detroit in 1970: The sky is a different shade of orange every evening!
-For what ever reason, I feel the need to own a saw. I live in a house in Fort Lauderdale with 7 coconut palms, 2 queen palms, a palmetto, and a loquat. My partner owns 39 rental properties, so there are plenty more species of tree that I could come in contact with, including the nefarious "cats claw".
I figured I needed something better, and I was NOT impressed by the Stihl chainsaws that I saw at the big box stores. I own an older Porsche 928S2, which I use as a daily driver. This car amazes me! It is 27 years old, it has 154,000 miles, and I wouldn't hesitate to drive it the 3000 miles to Los Angeles tonight if I had to, since I'm sure it would make it. It is my baby, I work on it every night, and the minute something goes wrong, since I have such a strong knowledge [factory shop manuals from Germany are on a shelf in my garage: I paid $400 for these books 10 years ago] of the car...I fix it my self. I instantly know what is wrong, I never take it to the shop...and basically; There is so much of my blood from my cut knuckles soaked into the metal of that car that is probably now a blood relative!
Need not say, but yours truly is a CAR GUY.
And yet, the notion of finding a BETTER older saw, kind of like my 928S2...instantly came to mind and I started searching. I don't want the biggest saw in the world [I'm dealing with...palmettos!] I want the saw that kicks ass and takes names, but is easy to use and is something that you could lend your mother. The Porsche 928 and the McCulloch 250 for some reason to fit this bill. That 928 in my garage brought home a clothes dryer in its yawning hatchback last fall, when I found one on the cheap at a thrift store, and the only way that I could have gotten it is if I had taken it RIGHT THEN. One of my tenants had called and we had a dead dryer. I solved the problem on the cheap and probably saved $150 because my 928 was so versatile, and I suspect that the new saw [when I get it running; It has a carb adjustment problem] gets worked out, then it will work for me at our various rental properties, and just like me driving the 928 to Publix to pick up a couple of onions...the McCulloch 250 knocking down a traveller palm at one of my properties will see little but deliberate use!
My point: For some reason, some people like odd chainsaws. For the same reason, some people like odd old Porsche cars.
Go figure!
Thoughts-
T