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MustangMike
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We used to hunt in the Catskills at a cabin that belonged to one of my Uncle's friends. My Uncle and I did all the wood cutting, with bow saws, for several years till I got my Homelite Super II. I started hunting up there when I was 16, and did not get a chainsaw till I was about 26 or 27. My Uncle always had a wood stove for heat, and never owned a chainsaw! He was old school! We were always dragging (by hand) 4-6" logs to to cabin.

Often, you could not get a vehicle up there in the winter, and we back packed food & water in.

I got married when I was 25, and my FIL was a tree surgeon and he taught me how to use a chainsaw. The company used all Homelite XLs at the time.
 
STIHLTHEDEERE

STIHLTHEDEERE

This is Koty
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We used to hunt in the Catskills at a cabin that belonged to one of my Uncle's friends. My Uncle and I did all the wood cutting, with bow saws, for several years till I got my Homelite Super II. I started hunting up there when I was 16, and did not get a chainsaw till I was about 26 or 27. My Uncle always had a wood stove for heat, and never owned a chainsaw! He was old school! We were always dragging (by hand) 4-6" logs to to cabin.

Often, you could not get a vehicle up there in the winter, and we back packed food & water in.

I got married when I was 25, and my FIL was a tree surgeon and he taught me how to use a chainsaw. The company used all Homelite XLs at the time.
And then, and only then, you got an 044 and life as you know it, was changed forever..............:D
 
Big_Wood

Big_Wood

westcoast dweller
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Dec 11, 2012
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Canuckistan
man you guys got it rough. i started cutting wood with a husky 32 at 6 years old, quickly upgraded to about 3 266's, 1 272, 5-6 288's and probably upwards to 15 2100's by age 8 :D ran those aquiring more of the same models til about 12-13 i guess and bought my first brand new saw. was my 372 and i still got it. then by 15-16 i guess i bought my first 3120 cause i wanted the biggest saw. ever since then my interest has dwindled. still like saws but i'm not into collecting a bunch of shelf queens. i now own one of ever size cc and a few others kicking for sale. been cutting wood religiously since 96 and that was the same year i started working on saws. more into using a nice running saw then collecting a bunch of them that just collect dust on a shelf.

edit: almost forgot to mention the pile of stihls aquired through the years. at one point i owned nearly 10 044's. people here are just having their CAD kick off. i've been there and done that many times already in my life. seems i aquire a bunch then realize all i need is this many, then one day something spikes my interest again only to end up aquiring a bunch more again. it's a vicious cycle and i'm trying to control it better now. anything i really don't need is gonna get sent down the road for now on. this site does not help at all LOL
 

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