Seriously considering it just waiting on a few details $ to be ironed out, If I can get it around the $1200 mark with 28" B&C most likely the route/hole I will be headed down. Next decision is if trying to save 3% is worth having the wife know how much I am spending she controls the Paypal account or do I just put it on my CC and not tell her.
I saw it, not ready to pull the trigger yet though. Good luck with the sale if it isn't gone yet. so far I'm hearing only good about them from people who have run them.
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I ran a 32" on my 372 most of the time, and I know of a 372 that's run a 32" since new, but everyone has their different opinions on what saw is best suited for bar length X.Well guess the trees have changed a lot since the early 2000's.......When i cut at least 100 truck loads of oak with a 372xp 71cc and a 28 inch bar ? not an issue at all keeping the chain sharp......must be due too climate change.....and lack of water .. to needing a much larger saw ......
agreed .....mine is the 75cc version it wears a 28 inch bar permanently ...i have a 20 inch for it and new chain still new in the box...if a am carrying a saw out even a 372..... it's for large wood ... or it's a much smaller saw..
Could be climate change,Well guess the trees have changed a lot since the early 2000's.......When i cut at least 100 truck loads of oak with a 372xp 71cc and a 28 inch bar ? not an issue at all keeping the chain sharp......must be due too climate change.....and lack of water .. to needing a much larger saw ......
I started mid 70s with a Stihl 041 and 16" B&C switched to the 266xP 16"when they first came out and finally to a 70cc Stihl running a 20" B&C finally quit logging around 2000, figuring 8cord avg 6 days a week makes about 48cords a week and 10 cords to the truck puts me just under 100 load in 2 wks. Now that I am old and retired and cantankerous now I just buy the TOY's that put a smile on my face and dont worry to much about why someone else does the things they do. I wheel a 3rd gen T4R, ride KTM 2strks but that does not stop me from wheelin with Jeeps or running single track with guys on Hondas and Yamaha's.Yessir $1095 plus $15 shipping plus $90 28" B&C plus whatever oil cost to get the extended warranty. puts me just over the $1200 mark.
Wife is as unsure as me she thought their might be like a business PP account or such, As I have said we only used PP a few times over the years and maybe $200 per purchase tops. Seller should know I would think seeing as he must be doing this all the time.
I just did a couple weeks ago. If your credit card is link to you PayPal, they will charge you a fee because it's like a cash advancement. At least mine did.Anyone familiar with PayPal Friends and Family? I told the wifey I needed her to do a PayPal friends and family for $1200 and she said she did not think it possible to go that high. We have only used PP once every year or two so not familiar with their limits and such. She did not even flinch when I mentioned dropping $1200 on a TOY saw so evidently, we have both mellowed with age or she has given up.
Our PP is linked to a bank account, Being the PP Ebay skeptics that we are I always keep just enough in the account to keep it open and then just deposit whatever amount we were going to spend on PP. Always figured that way neither PP nor Ebay sellers could ever access more than what we had transferred into the account, I think I may have also did it this way because I am a cheapskate(COB) and doing it this way PP could not charge me a CC processing fee which was the other option.
Did you use the 3120 as an example or subliminal suggestion?
I was thinking 592XP but if you think I need a 3120 and 28" B&C for firewood I might need to start rethinking my choices again. I do have a Stihl 088 with 42"B&C for stumping on large tree removal jobs, Tipping the scales ready to rock I am thinking probably close to 30-35lbs so never considered it for cutting firewood, from time to time my wife suggests that I am no longer as young as I once was and in this instance I might have to agree with her.
The 044 and the 372 is about the same league.
I have two 371's. I have one with what I call a mild port job, tighter squish, 7 tooth sprocket, and a 20" bar. The other has a bottem end port with about 12 degrees more blow down, Dominator piston, tighter squish, 8 tooth sprocket, 28" bar, and skip chain.
Sounds like a nice set of saws.
