SawTroll
Information Collector
I was wondering when you wanted me to ship it, I knew I didn't talk you out of one LOL.
Personally if I was in a situation I'd even take a stihl over having nothing at all.
So I guess any vintage would be better than no vintage, but I really like the 3.. series, but I'm not picky.
There are some basic improvements with most 3-series saws over most 2-series ones - but that doesn't keep many of the 2-series ones from being very nice saws. Then the "series" numbers have been used more than one time, and that messes up the "picture", unless you know exactly which saws we are referring to.
The "misfits" are the 2- and 3-series saws from the 1970s and of course the recent Poulan built homeowner 2-series saws (that are crap). The ones from the 1970s were very good saws of their time, just a different "generation" of saws (despite production time overlapped - 285, 298, 2100 and 2101 really belongs to that 2-series, despite most of them were made later).