You are more than welcome to bid on the dead 200t(s) just like anyone else on ebay. I pay money for my saws too but they in turn, make me money. I don’t really know why else you would own a chainsaw if it was not making you money or heating your house. No need to anthropomorphize a chainsaw. It’s a tool and is as disposable as a pair of gloves. Start thinkin’ different and the tree you are felling might get the saw and you. If you cant afford to lose it over the side of a boat, did you really have any business owing it in the first place?? Funny, the diesel in the trucks tanks is worth more than a 200t.
Oh, my mistake, I read it as you threw them away. Not interested in bidding on a clapped out, worn out saw on ebay. Clapped out worn out free for just shipping, sure, but pay money for it plus shipping? I don't think so.
Yes, saws make you money or make you firewood heat (or prune your trees, etc), I was just commenting on your attitude more than anything else, as in assuming everyone thought that way. Most guys would want their tools to last longer, but I fully understand your point of view as well, it's just a disposable cheap thing you use, and it is like I said, a business deduction for you as well, so you can afford to use them real hard, harder than proly harry homeowner might, "smoking in the cut" and so on.
Actually, I have never bought anything on ebay, don't even have an account, not real interested either. I just thought if they were headed to a dumpster they might be worth a look over to see what was salvageable or not.
I have way more time for sweat equity than I do cashola for purchasing new stuff. I buy real cheap junkers and fix them, that's all, I'm teaching myself to work on various saws now, sort of like..home schooling, to have a shop eventually, something to do soon as I switch from semi retired to..another form of semi retired. When I can't cut the mustard doing this physical farm labor stuff I do now. I just don't get many high end saws to practice on. Hmm..zero to none actually, except for old poulans, which are fun to work on really.