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Aha! This is great! Now I 'get it'. I came home last night and heard chainsawing going on. A friend of mine a few doors down was out trimming trees so I went over to chat. A landscaper who was walking down the alley stopped by as well and we all ended up talking chainsaw issues. My...

Could somebody explain again how to file them? A got a friend to show me how to sharpen my chain. His explanation of how to use the round file made sense and he ranted at me to make sure I was doing it straight (ie. on the correct angle) and the same number of strokes on each link. I'm less...

A bit of an update This actually combines several threads. Thought I'd post a thank you for all the help and advice. I used the Makita to trim a 45 foot elm, then later in the week brought the whole thing down (wish help from a friend) piece by piece in a narrow back yard (with wires all...

Been there, done that, got burned. Would run for him, wouldn't run for me. It's unlikely a saw in a pawnshop has been properly mantained. Also stay away from the Poulan 1250. Apparently they've had a bad run of them.

Apparently not enough. I had planned to drive to the west end to a saw shop but I was low on gas so I went over to Canadian Tire to see what they had. Another poster on this thread mentioned Oregon brand chains. Canadian tire didn't stock any 14" chains. They did have an Oregon 16" chain and...

I had a look at the chain last night. One of the cutting teeth is missing completely. Many of the others are bent beyond my ability to straighten. I gonna phone around and find somebody who stocks the right chain. Buying a generic chain (or anything else for that matter) from Canadian tire...

That tied me up in knots.

I'm running oil:gas mixture! Really! Two people who actually know what they're doing looked at my gas and declared it acceptable. I downloaded the Makita manual and checked through their explanation of how to mix gas and once I got through messing around with metric-imperial conversions it...

How much are they? Are they specific to the individual saw? The Makita parts manual lists a filing guide but I have no idea where to buy one.

I finally got a working saw :blob3: - a Makita DCS34. The previous owner showed me how to get it started and gave me a few other tips. It runs like a dream. It starts on the 2nd pull, idles forever and is deathly quiet (until you rev it up). I trimmed a tree with it and on the last cut...

That's entirely possible. That makes sense too. The thing it was attached to seemed loose.

I've been hitting the pawnshops again and found some nice looking Stihls. The girl even let me try one but I couldn't get it to start. On the side there's the ports for gas/oil mixture and chainsaw oil. On the back there's a three-position switch on the lefthand side. It appears to be off...

I'm in perfectly good health. This was originally 4pwr's thread and I kinda kidnapped it (sorry about that). I'm going to leave work early (the pawnshops tend to close at six) and take along some chainsaw gas and chain oila and see if I can get one of the older Stihl's running properly. I...

I hit all the local pawnshops and here's what I came up with. Shop #1 - basically he wanted to get rid of them. I think he'd give me pretty much my choice for CAN $50. The two best looking of a bad lot were: Homelight 35 Homelight 350 - a former Alberta Forest Service saw, I suspect...

Ok, so what about the Stihl MS280? It's the least expensive I can find new.

I've got my eye on a Stihl. If they'll let me try it and make it work (for more than three minutes) I may pick it up. I've got at least six trees need to come down (two locations).

OK, so is there a new Poulan that you would trust? I've already blown up a 2150 (there's considerable debate as to whose fault that was). Canadian Tire stocks the Wild Thing but I've already been warned away from that. The others are getting out of my price range.

That was a combination of two entries - one complaining about cheap Poulans, the other talking about wild things. Both are in this thread .

On another thread, they're saying You may only have accumulated 10 or 20 hours total time when the saw fails from cylinder seizure due to faulty plating. This happened to thousands of their saws in 2004... and a "wild thing" left your hands buzzing from the vibe, carb always vibrating out of...