I guess my rationale was to get more saw than I required so that if I go into the hills where there's bigger trees I don't require a bigger saw. The elm trees we have here are a lot denser and harder than the elm lumber I see in the store.
I also have it in the back of my mind to use a bunch of the telephone poles here for building. some of those get to be about 18" around. The local line maintenance company treats our farm as a dumping ground for the poles they replace. They're useless for firewood,
but could still be used for building. But that's something that just came to the front again when the power line company dropped off another dozen of them.
Then there's the fact that the smaller better grade saws are running kinda in the same price range as the used husky or stihl asked about in this thread. Unless I want a small echo or another useless ms170 or something in that range. Seems that if you want something used 50cc to 77cc, it's kinda in the same price range in this area for the good quality saws. Generally seems to fall within a $150 price band unless ported, etc.
The owner of the Husky 365 just got back
to me and it's all original. From the pics,
it looks like it was hardly used.
