Ya never know what's gonna walk in the door

[Patrick62]

In the for what it's worth department:

Gentlemen walked in with a Stihl 460 wearing a 18" bar. He had the chain filed way past the ledger mark.
I fetch a new chain, and set to the task of blowing all the dust off the beast, fit the chain, dress the bar some. He wanders the store for a bit. He comes back around, and I ask, "you have the air filter for this somewhere?" I was going to blow the dust off it, but since there wasn't one.... Puzzled look.

I cleaned the air horn as best as I could, fitted the HD2, he went outside and drop started it. It sounded ok.
I wonder what the piston looked like? and I wasn't gonna go a snooping.... But that old chain was making flour for chips.

 

[homemade]

Some people just don’t care. It’s just a tool to them.

 

[Matt93eg]

Wow. You expect that out of someone that buys a saw at a big box store. Poulan or what not but someone with that saw you would think would be a bit better than that. Reckon not. Shows what I know.

 

[MacAttack]

That's why it's so easy for guys like us to get power equipment so cheap or free and fix it up...

 

[Cycledude]

I am surprised you actually let him leave like that.

 

[Poleman]

No use in arguing with customers like that.... they don’t care, they know it all and their cheaper and will continue to run it until it quits they say it’s not their fault cuz they did everything right.... like the 2 year old gas you dump out of their tank...that’s full of water....

 

[Remle]

He probably bought the 460 because he had already destroyed a couple cheap saws and figured an expensive one would just keep running.

 

[Tom B.]

Things that make you go hmmmmm

 

[LonestarStihl]

Same people that will later be telling everyone how Stihl or Husqvarna, or whatever is such a piece of junk, and they aren’t made like they used to, and they just don’t hold up... you name it

 

[Marley5]

Gotta have idiot's to balance things out.

 

[T-Dozzer]

I know someone exactly like that. Even has a 460.

 

[capetrees]

In the for what it's worth department:

Gentlemen walked in with a Stihl 460 wearing a 18" bar. He had the chain filed way past the ledger mark.
I fetch a new chain, and set to the task of blowing all the dust off the beast, fit the chain, dress the bar some. He wanders the store for a bit. He comes back around, and I ask, "you have the air filter for this somewhere?" I was going to blow the dust off it, but since there wasn't one.... Puzzled look.

I cleaned the air horn as best as I could, fitted the HD2, he went outside and drop started it. It sounded ok.
I wonder what the piston looked like? and I wasn't gonna go a snooping.... But that old chain was making flour for chips.

or maybe he had no clue what he had because maybe he stole it? just came in and asked to have it cleaned up? hmmm...

 

[Old2stroke]

I am amazed at the number of saws that have been brought to me to be fixed and don't have an air filter. Junk chain that's way too loose, bar that hasn't had any maintenance and a carb that needs work I can understand, BUT NOT AIR FILTER????

 

[Bobby Kirbos]

I am amazed at the number of saws that have been brought to me to be fixed and don't have an air filter. Junk chain that's way too loose, bar that hasn't had any maintenance and a carb that needs work I can understand, BUT NOT AIR FILTER????

What's the problem? We breathe the same air and we're fine. Why would the saw be any different?

 

[Natster]

Has anybody figured out how to sequentially sharpen a chain, ending up with a round rope, running through pulleys, with a bit of valve grinding compound, to put the final touches on a chain saw tooth? Right now, it's all in my head, but it is logical.
Nate

 

[Brent Nowell]

Some people just don’t care. It’s just a tool to them.

Yup.

Easy for us to drop our jaw at that kind of neglect, but in the owners mind his passions are elsewhere

 

[67L36Driver]

Run for two plus years without an air filter because it was dirty.

Then it wouldn’t start. 105 psi it pumped.

So I fix it and he don’t come back to get it. [emoji57]

C’list fodder now. [emoji106]

 

[LonestarStihl]

Run for two plus years without an air filter because it was dirty.

Then it wouldn’t start. 105 psi it pumped.

So I fix it and he don’t come back to get it. [emoji57]

C’list fodder now. [emoji106]

Ship it to TX

 

[67L36Driver]

Ship it to TX

I’ve shipped saws on more than one occasion to a C’list response.

 

[lostone]

Maybe the saw was given to him or he borrowed it from a relative/friend, that will probably never see it again.

The guy that does maintenance here brought me a husky 460 with a 3/8-058 bar/chain (hammered hard) setup and said he couldn't get the new chain he bought to fit right .325/.063. I flipped the bar and dressed it out the best I could and ground probably half the cutters away to get it back to a chisel. He also said it wasn't oiling right so I took the wrong threaded clutch cover nut, that only threaded about two turns on, that someone had put on it off and put the right one on that I have spares of. Cleaned up the dust between the bar/chain guide and clutch cover so it would mate up again and dug out about a half a tree worth of powder out of the bar groove and bar oiler hole, greased what was left of the bearings in the bar tip and handed it back to him letting him know the bar needed replaced, I still see him using the saw with the setup the same way it was when I handed it back to him. Like someone said above, it's just a tool to them and some people don't care how they treat their tools.