Support Group: Owners of Abused chainsaws

[vamtjewboy]

you've seen the bumper stickers:

Yes this is my pickup truck. No, you can't borrow it!

It's time for a new bumper sticker:

Yes, this is my chainsaw. No, you can't borrow it!

Never again is a neighbor of mine going to use any of my chainsaws. The guy is nice enough, but obviously doesn't know shyt about running a chainsaw. He fried my bar and chain on my little 334T and dulled my 345's 24" chain to such a useless state that i could not cut my finger with it even if i wanted to. you should see the chunks out of the cutters! he must have cut into dirt and rocks and ran both saws to the point of dullness where they won't cut into the softest of wood...shyt, they wouldn't even slice into a loaf of warm bread the way i got them back. the 334t bar smokes as soon as it starts up...sprocket is completely blown.

thanks for listening to my Psst off rant. I have made friends with my chainsaws again and have promised never to let anyone abuse them again...never, ever again! i feel like they need therapy now to overcome their trauma.

PS. He used a gallon of my mix and didn't refill it, too!

feel free to borrowed chainsaw rant/vent if u'd like. we'll feel ur pain...think of it as a support group for owners of abused chainsaws.

 

[GASoline71]

The only way I "loan out" my saws... is if I go with them. I will be more than happy to cut stuff up or fall a tree... usually for free or for beer...

...but I won't let anybody borrow my saws.

Gary

 

[Cedarkerf]

+1

 

[Lakeside53]

+2

 

[04ultra]

+ 3






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[Lakeside53]

Hmmm.. I thought you just bought a bunch of crappy saws to lend out?opcorn:

 

[B_Turner]

+4

Well, I might lend a saw to my brother who has been a certified arborist for maybe 20 yrs. He lent me his beemer motorcycle once for a year when he was on a sailing trip, so I guess fair is fair. Although I drove the carp out of that bike for a year and he and I are both lucky he got it back in one piece.

Edit: My BIL was over a couple of months ago wanting to help out around the property and he wanted to run a saw a little. I got out my old 026 for him to cut some big old junipers. He has been a construction contractor for maybe 30 years and has spent a fair amount of time using saws, and he didn't even know what the chain brake was! I showed him how to use it and he was amazed that he never knew what they were. Scary.

 

[04ultra]

Hmmm.. I thought you just bought a bunch of crappy saws to lend out?opcorn:

OOP's almost forgot about the wildthingy and the PP295......





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[windthrown]

Hmmm.. I thought you just bought a bunch of crappy saws to lend out?opcorn:

I do that. I have a 230/023 hybrid that I 'loan out.' It is a beater with a nicked bar that is pertty bad a chain that is 80% used up. That thing has a super-glued flywheel and a dented oil pump. All my barely working parts go on it, except the brake parts are all good. I tuned it so it runs rich and smokes a tad. If they kill it, I will not be sorry. I will have more parts for the 021-250 family. Hey, maybe it is time for me to list it on Ebay as a "Great running, lightly used Professional chainsaw!" I mean, its a Stihl...

But touch my 361, and you die!!!!!

 

[Lakeside53]

a superglued flywheel? yikes....

I guess you lend it you your future mother-in-law?:jester:

 

[windthrown]

a superglued flywheel? yikes....

I guess you lend it you your future mother-in-law?:jester:

Yah, I broke a fin off the flywheel, and super-glued it back together. It actually has been that way for several months now. Seems to work. I mean, its a STIHL!!! I have a 'spare' flywheel with a half sheared key notch in case that fails... its also has the shortie coil wire and coil that came on the 210 Ebay Saw From Hell too. And the broken orange handle that I J-B welded (I think that was a trick I learned from a post of your's a while back on AS).

And she is my future ex-mother-in-law. Yah, she can borrow it... opcorn:

 

[belgian]

Hmmm.. I thought you just bought a bunch of crappy saws to lend out?opcorn:

I have a husky 42 that runs great and use for that purpose now. I was tired of finding excuses, I guess.

But anyone that comes near "mine", will get shot on site

 

[Gumnuts]

+ 6 or more
No one respects a saw like the owner.
Have a really good friend who works in a tree crew.They treat em like shyt.I know the boss would kick sphinkter boy ,if he only knew.
His own saws are'nt treated that much better.i cringe everytime i see him throw his saw in the ute." R it'll be alright ,it's a Stihl - from 5 feet away !!! he'll then quote the saw that took a nose dive off a tower and landed embedded half way in to the ground.Pulled it out .wiped the dirt off it ,an she started first pull- hey ,they last forever." Sort of a brovardo thing.
That's why he's got me to chase up parts for him- I really like the guy
( not that way !!!! ) he's slowly (5years now ) learning it can be quite expensive to m%$uck his money makers.

When I was just getting to know him and well before I saw his blatant disregard for saws I LENT him one to do a job on the side .Told him to clean and sharpen before returning.Came back ,like from a pig pit an chain scrap metal
We had a lot of saws getting knocked off ,from differant crews in my area.
My saws lived in either my bedroom or the back-bedroom for a coupla years.
I think my own miss treatment of saws is also from ignorance .
I used to use standard ,now i use premium>an many other things I did'nt know before I came on this site
& 1 nearly finished

:chainsawguy: :love1:

 

[slowp]

I've had guys offering to loan me their saws! I decline because I'm afraid of breaking their saws. Their saws have more power, and weight than I need. I loaned my neighbor Old Sparkless (032)but got it back before she replaced the sawgas by filling up the saw tank at the gas station. I'd loan out Old Sparkless but only after a lecture on saw mix and bar oil, but Fluffy (440)would only be loaned to folks who I know would take proper care of him.

 

[PES+]

Fluffy????

 

[reachtreeservi]

I couldn't loan out a saw. Even to family and friends. The cheapest saw I own is around $500.00 .
Now if I loan one out, and it comes back smoked and broke, then that relationship is going to be strained to the breaking point.

It's cheaper and much less potential for hurt or harm, to just go cut whatever they want cut, for free. I'd hate to blow a good relationship out for a few sawbucks.

 

[RiverRat2]

+1 !!!!!

The only way I "loan out" my saws... is if I go with them. I will be more than happy to cut stuff up or fall a tree... usually for free or for beer...

...but I won't let anybody borrow my saws.

Gary

 

[Al Smith]

...but I won't let anybody borrow my saws.

Gary

I follow that rule with one exception and he is a pro treeman.On rare occasions his 084 may take a fit and he calls for one of the big Macs to come to the rescue.Doesn't happen very often.

 

[hornett22]

amen Gary.

The only way I "loan out" my saws... is if I go with them. I will be more than happy to cut stuff up or fall a tree... usually for free or for beer...

...but I won't let anybody borrow my saws.

Gary

i figure there is a reason they don't have their own.

 

[hornett22]

actually i have one friend that i would lend any of my saws to.

they guy i posted the 441 and 660 for.he takes care of his stuff and if it broke while he was using it,it would be fixed or he would replace it.

he is the only one i know that is like this.everyone else gets a blunt and direct "NO!"