Brmorgan
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Business opportunity, running non-epa chainsaws out of Canada plus my own personal use is what I was thinking.
I'll start calling you Capone... To be honest I'm not sure what's going on up here. My local shop still has tons of 372s and 395s kicking around, and they haven't heard anything about discontinuation yet. We're quite often a couple years behind the States as far as some regs go though - for example our TV broadcasting isn't scheduled to go thru the digital switch for two more years. On the other hand, we're usually a bit ahead when the environment is concerned, so who knows. I think a lot of this is smoke and mirrors anyway, it's to the manufacturers' advantage in the short term to propagate rumors of model discontinuation, then everyone who really wants one will feel the need to go out and buy it right away even if they don't really need it.
I'm not terribly concerned though. I was absolutely dreading it when the 4-wheeler manufacturers all switched to four-stroke, but am quite happy with mine anyway. It doesn't have near the top-end speed of my dad's two-stroke, but the raw torque for pulling loads is incomparable. As long as they don't make it illegal to make/sell parts for old non-compliant saws, I don't really care what they do to the new ones as long as they work well.