MCW
Somebody's talking crap here & it ain't the tree!
200T's have been over $1500 down here for ages, they were over $1200 years ago, for serious use I can tell ya buying 192T's, solos, oleo-macs, echo shyte and hardware store junk is all just a total waste of money though, the tinky toys are always bad news in the bush, skimping on the initial costs never works out, running crap saws is the worse thing to do, the wise operators still cough up the dosh and go with the atrociously priced machine
Hey I agree mate. The 200T's are most certainly the benchmark although if I hadn't have bought that near new 200T off of Brad for a good price I'd probably have gotten a 338XPT which I can land here for about AUD$700. In any pro sense a 200T will pay for itself even if it's worth $10,000 but at the same time I still scratch my head over the Australian (and NZ ) price difference compared to the states. You guys across the ditch are probably getting ripped off even more than we are here