I'm pretty picky (to a fault) of what I buy.
I'm on a mission to find a decent Poulan 5200.
I'm on a mission to find a decent Poulan 5200.
If you know how many saws you have you are still a rookie.
Hey Unc. You wanta count my saws, LOLIf you know how many saws you have you are still a rookie.
But Jerry!!!!!Hey Unc. You wanta count my saws, LOL
But Jerry!!!!!
By the time I got done counting......there would be more saws........
It's a fairly affordable hobby, and most often pays for itself.I started with an ms250, ran it for two years, wasn’t happy with the performance for my needs, bought an ms261, fell in love. Started bucking bigger rounds and started researching bigger saws. Spent months reading about the ms400 and 500i. Bought the 500i on Thursday. Holy cow it’s amazing. Found myself holding the ms400 at the hardware store today. What is wrong with me!
I started with an ms250, ran it for two years, wasn’t happy with the performance for my needs, bought an ms261, fell in love. Started bucking bigger rounds and started researching bigger saws. Spent months reading about the ms400 and 500i. Bought the 500i on Thursday. Holy cow it’s amazing. Found myself holding the ms400 at the hardware store today. What is wrong with me!
At one point in time, quite a few years back.200?
This thread convinced me to register, been reading this forum since about 2005 I'm guessing. My story short and sweet, the tree business was the first paying gig I ever had as a kid in pennsylvania, biggest I got was one F800 dump body and a gas V8 powered chipper with 3 man crew, but man did we do some epic jobs. Simple harness and rope with a slip knot is all we knew back then, only Asplundh had booms in those days and those were for line clearing. Anyway a few years later I got into another career path and that was that. Bout 15 years ago I moved to GA on a property that had enough trees and acres to justify a new saw, my first since getting out of the business in 85. At the time the hotness was the MS361 so I jumped on that with a 20" bar and until about 18 months ago never felt the need to upgrade to the 362 or anything else for obvious reasons, but then the 500i broke cover in europe and stirred something in me, still, living where I was I just wasnt going to be doing the cutting to justify it. Fast forward to this year and I just moved across the state onto 42 acres of woods and figured now I can pull the trigger on that 500i. So I sold my mint condition 361 for pretty much what I paid for it 15 years earlier and went on the hunt for a 500i, it took some calling around and being told to wait till fall but I was able to run one down at an outfit called Howard Brothers. I had so much deadfall and removal work here to do I grabbed an extra Tsmura 28"er to go with the 25"er that came stock and of course some extra RM's and RS's. Gotta say every time I run this beast I'm that same 17 year old kid again, it's definitely not work for me, it's actually really fun and mentally therapeutic at the same time, and of course the 500i is a machine...
Well after a few weeks of that nirvana and more reading on this forum I thought damn, the 500i really needs a mini me to keep it company, and I need something small and light that I can grab like, ummm 90% of the time around here on the small and mid size stuff. So back to Howard Bros I went and grabbed a 261CM with 18"er and man I gotta tell you guys, this thing is so sweet and handy and light and non fatiguing to use it's going to relegate the 500i to the big stuff only, or at least when I am feeling the need for speed and want to take her for a spin. Now, the next problem on the horizon, and what I need you guys help in determining, how neatly would a new 400CM with a 20" slot in between the 261 and 500i???
ATVs and chainsaws, is like chocolate and peanut butter.Dude, you sound exactly like me selling it to my wife, the only question that could even be raised is king quad or grizzly.....
my thoughts exactly! That 400cm sure feels great in the hands.This thread convinced me to register, been reading this forum since about 2005 I'm guessing. My story short and sweet, the tree business was the first paying gig I ever had as a kid in pennsylvania, biggest I got was one F800 dump body and a gas V8 powered chipper with 3 man crew, but man did we do some epic jobs. Simple harness and rope with a slip knot is all we knew back then, only Asplundh had booms in those days and those were for line clearing. Anyway a few years later I got into another career path and that was that. Bout 15 years ago I moved to GA on a property that had enough trees and acres to justify a new saw, my first since getting out of the business in 85. At the time the hotness was the MS361 so I jumped on that with a 20" bar and until about 18 months ago never felt the need to upgrade to the 362 or anything else for obvious reasons, but then the 500i broke cover in europe and stirred something in me, still, living where I was I just wasnt going to be doing the cutting to justify it. Fast forward to this year and I just moved across the state onto 42 acres of woods and figured now I can pull the trigger on that 500i. So I sold my mint condition 361 for pretty much what I paid for it 15 years earlier and went on the hunt for a 500i, it took some calling around and being told to wait till fall but I was able to run one down at an outfit called Howard Brothers. I had so much deadfall and removal work here to do I grabbed an extra Tsmura 28"er to go with the 25"er that came stock and of course some extra RM's and RS's. Gotta say every time I run this beast I'm that same 17 year old kid again, it's definitely not work for me, it's actually really fun and mentally therapeutic at the same time, and of course the 500i is a machine...
Well after a few weeks of that nirvana and more reading on this forum I thought damn, the 500i really needs a mini me to keep it company, and I need something small and light that I can grab like, ummm 90% of the time around here on the small and mid size stuff. So back to Howard Bros I went and grabbed a 261CM with 18"er and man I gotta tell you guys, this thing is so sweet and handy and light and non fatiguing to use it's going to relegate the 500i to the big stuff only, or at least when I am feeling the need for speed and want to take her for a spin. Now, the next problem on the horizon, and what I need you guys help in determining, how neatly would a new 400CM with a 20" slot in between the 261 and 500i???
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