Hey Tommy, send that NE Yankee there a big old
wheelbarrow to haul his ballacks around in will you? They must be as big as bowling balls, and see, he is getting crankey from all the extra work.
Me oh my... I never had such trouble with a 361. The 1123 line, they tend to pool when they get hot. Then they are hard to start. My old Macs, man they were tempramental beasts. But the 361s? Cold starting, 3, maybe 4 pulls on full choke with no decomp, rumble, flip lever up one, pull once or twice, then off they go. Hot starting, one pull. I dunno how many times I have started my pair of 361s. A few thousand times? I can remember them flooding about three times total. Only one time was it an issue, and I had to let it set for 5 minutes. So forking what. I have a tree service myself, and I always carry one or a pair of 361s with me.
All this talk about crappy saws for being hard starting. Man, try an old Mac 380. Now that saw's a bear to start. Or my dad's larger Homelite. Might take 20 pulls on that thing. Never had to pull on a saw 200 times myself. At about 50 my arm gives out and I have to switch to the other one. At 100 I would toss the saw in the lake here. Never had to toss a saw in the lake though.