What is the third best brand after Husky and Stihl ?

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You may want to look on a world scale and not just in the US.

For total volume here are worldwide number - for 2009. Could not find 2010. (this is cars, trucks, buses, etc) Now for any of them the car number was over 90% of totals. 2010 numbers for North America would have been better for sure.

Note: there are a lot of well know cars (super performance or very expensive versions that do not even make this list).

Toyota 7,234,439
General Motors 6,459,053
Volkswagen 6,067,208
Ford 4,685,394
Hyundai Kia 4,645,776
PSA 3,042,311
Honda 3,012,637
Nissan 2,744,562
Fiat 2,460,222
Suzuki 2,387,537
Renault 2,296,009
Daimler AG 1,447,953
Chana Automobile 1,425,777
BMW 1,258,417
Mazda 984,520
Chrysler 959,070
Mitsubishi 802,463
Beijing Automotive 684,534
Tata 672,045
Dongfeng Motor 663,262
FAW 650,275
Chery 508,567
Fuji 491,352
BYD 427,732
SAIC 347,598
Anhui Jianghuai 336,979
Geely 330,275
Isuzu 316,335
Brilliance 314,189
AvtoVAZ 294,737
Great Wall 226,560
Mahindra 223,065
Shangdong Kaima 169,023
Proton 152,965
China National 120,930
Volvo 105,873
Chongqing Lifan 104,434
Fujian Motor Industry Group 103,171
Kuozui 93,303
Shannxi Auto 79,026
Porsche 75,637
Ziyang Nanjun 72,470
GAZ 69,591
Navistar 65,364
Guangzhou Auto 62,990
Paccar 58,918
Chenzhou Ji'ao 51,008
Qingling Motor 50,120
Hebei Zhongxing 48,173
Ashok Leyland 47,694
 
Just Stihl and Husky spend the major bucks to market their saws. As far as nationally recognized branding it prolly would have to be Echo.
Since Jonsered is nothing more than a red husky I would say the two most under recognized saws and under appreciated saw brands are Dolmar and Efco.
Based on how we've used our saws the last couple of years the efco's are one fine saw.
 
For total volume here are worldwide number - for 2009. Could not find 2010. (this is cars, trucks, buses, etc) Now for any of them the car number was over 90% of totals. 2010 numbers for North America would have been better for sure.

Note: there are a lot of well know cars (super performance or very expensive versions that do not even make this list).

Toyota 7,234,439
General Motors 6,459,053
Volkswagen 6,067,208
Ford 4,685,394
Hyundai Kia 4,645,776
PSA 3,042,311
Honda 3,012,637
Nissan 2,744,562
Fiat 2,460,222
Suzuki 2,387,537
Renault 2,296,009
Daimler AG 1,447,953
Chana Automobile 1,425,777
BMW 1,258,417
Mazda 984,520
Chrysler 959,070
Mitsubishi 802,463
Beijing Automotive 684,534
Tata 672,045
Dongfeng Motor 663,262
FAW 650,275
Chery 508,567
Fuji 491,352
BYD 427,732
SAIC 347,598
Anhui Jianghuai 336,979
Geely 330,275
Isuzu 316,335
Brilliance 314,189
AvtoVAZ 294,737
Great Wall 226,560
Mahindra 223,065
Shangdong Kaima 169,023
Proton 152,965
China National 120,930
Volvo 105,873
Chongqing Lifan 104,434
Fujian Motor Industry Group 103,171
Kuozui 93,303
Shannxi Auto 79,026
Porsche 75,637
Ziyang Nanjun 72,470
GAZ 69,591
Navistar 65,364
Guangzhou Auto 62,990
Paccar 58,918
Chenzhou Ji'ao 51,008
Qingling Motor 50,120
Hebei Zhongxing 48,173
Ashok Leyland 47,694

Way distant and far off subject of chainsaws.
 
Btw, I wouldn't trade my 911 for all the Toyotas and one Lexus I got rid of. My "normal" car now is older Buick Regal..less expensive to buy (used) and it stays away from shop. I fix it myself. ..... and cos something sells the most numbers is it better? Should we all run new homeowners saws? Or used real pro built that is rewarding to own?
 
Stihl and Husky may be the most popularly known, but they aint the best.



OK, I'll put Stihl in the top 3...but never Husky, at least not the new ones. Old ones, yes. Or Echo, every time I encounter one of them I gain a newer, lower opinion of them...

To me, Jonsered and Makita are in there with Stihl. Jonsered always have been a great saw to me, and Dolmar-Makitas are great, shame about the limited range.
 
One of our regional small farm chains, they own three or four locations, full service farm stores and sell both Husky and Stihl, won a trip to Sweden to tour a Husky factory, I talked to the owner after his trip and was shocked that the workers don't really know what brand of saw they will built until they come in, one day it may be Huskies the next Jonsered. I was kind of surprised to hear it. With knowing that, I'd buy whatever was the cheaper of the two colors, red or orange wouldn't make any difference to me.lol I don't see why they don't consolidate the brands, drop the Jonsered saw name and spend additional monies focused on one brand if there is just minor differences in handle position. Dosen't make sense to have two organizations, sales teams, marketing all that overhead. Say it would allow the united brand to pass on a savings of 25.00-50.00 a saw to the dealer, it would be a big deal.
 
Stihl and Husky may be the most popularly known, but they aint the best.



OK, I'll put Stihl in the top 3...but never Husky, at least not the new ones. Old ones, yes. Or Echo, every time I encounter one of them I gain a newer, lower opinion of them...

To me, Jonsered and Makita are in there with Stihl. Jonsered always have been a great saw to me, and Dolmar-Makitas are great, shame about the limited range.
have you looked at a serial tag on a jonsered lately???????? just wondering if you know how they read.......
 
have you looked at a serial tag on a jonsered lately???????? just wondering if you know how they read.......
Yup. Husky also parent Redmax now too.

But right now the Jonsered are still Swedish built with good build quality and quality components. Husky are getting too big for themselves, churning out more and more Chinese made stuff with low quality components. Big box store cancer has set in.
 
I have owned & used Huskies,Stihls,Jonsereds,Poulons, over the years and recently bought a Dolmar. I never had a minutes trouble with any of them. I am a big time metal detector hobbyist and always enjoy trying different brands & models of detectors and the same goes for chainsaws. If I was told that I could get any 4 free saws I wanted I would get these and in this order
1) Dolmar
2)Jonsered
3)Husky
4)Stihl

I'm liking the Dolmar more each time I use it.
 
I don't know this guy, but he's obviously got a good thinker on top of his neck.
Woodie...nice to see you back posting and cheerleading for your brand...in a honesty they need all the help they can get. Nothing against jonsered...but like you were here last...they are pretty far down the list as far as favorites are concerned ;).
take care
 
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