Although I used to say: Real high performance cars is with carburator. Today I certainly enjoy my Electronic fuel injection, on my car. No hazlles with Choke or anythig, just start and go.
Think it will be the same with chainsaws, sooner or later IMO.
Don´t think it`s that bad a thing.
Correct. It'll take awhile and Stihl is holding true to form with the 038/044/440/441/441M leading the way...
I recall the conversations in the 70's when we started with the TBI/MPI conversation...how they had destroyed the backyard mech, no one will ever be able to fix their own stuff, never get as much HP, yadda, yadda...and here we are today.
However did we survive
Don't like all the emission stuffs, go vote. Didn't vote or voted for someone who was progressive with regards to the enviorment...you have zero reason to complain. As much as I dislike it, it's a good thing. Most industries (and the OPE is no exception) has been stagnate for years. Very little in the way of innovation, new concepts, better, pushing the envolope...unfortunately history has shown most companies do not invest/spend the monies to improve until forced, either by competition or regulation.
Over regulation can be a bad thing, but setting realistic goals, enforcement deadlines, and make the failure to meet those deadlines has a track record of forcing improvements.
I love the old saws, hell I'd give my left nut for the stash of old 038 Mag II's I had in my shed at one point. I refused to move on to the lighter, stronger, lower vibration, better filtration, faster cutting, 044 for several years. Once I was forced into doing so I was like "What the hell was my problem...this thing rocks". Perhaps we'll have fewer of those moments at the beginning and alot more of the "what the hell was I thinking buying a Husky" early on, but give it a short amount of time...
Not many of us would be happy still running old iron that weighted 30 pounds, ran on 30 weight, lived up to the name "two smoker", and vibrated like my ex's umm, electric drink mixer...
Yep these changes were forced on us, but few would/could say that the 361 wasn't an improvement over the 036, nor that the 362 isn't an improvement over the 361.
