zogger
Tree Freak
The next one down in his list, the husky 350, excellent saws, and he is asking much less than the echo, and might actually be closer in size/weight to what you really need and can get by with. When they were selling those new, proly the best cut for the buck going, any size or make. It's been done already I am sure, but if you decide to offer on it or get it, just ask him to verify pressure/vacuum test for leaks first, and the tune. And those, if they ever need a new top end, can fit a husky 346xp piston and cylinder.
Your poulan..I am still suspicious of that cap and the vent inside. Real suspicious, and if the saw isn't venting correctly, it will run worse than crap and there ain't no tuning it fixed. We've had too many members here who got a pp5020av and had them running and cutting well.
Boxstore saws off the shelf, you can about bet they are shipped lean, too lean. Refurb saws, if some dude sitting on an assembly line with the foreman breathing down his neck to up production on "fixing" can get a saw to pop and run for two seconds..FIXED..next saw. I am sure all these refurbs out there need additional tweaking, I would just assume that if getting one.
Any saw I got, if it don't start and run and be idling well at around 5-6 pulls max, back to what passes for a bench with me. That's why I have multiple saws now, and multiple sizes, redundancy. When I need a saw of such and such a size to cut..."need" is there, I can't be dorking around with it, that's for later when the just in time need passes. I went from a one saw plan (that still works perfect, bought a dinky little husky new and the wrench there tuned it correctly before out the door), then the tornado hit, 6000 lbs of oak in the living room with us..to today, I have shall we say several. Even though I have run saws since 1970, firewood both personal and for people who sold wood, fenceposts, working for the town clearing roads, etc., I learned more the first two years here working on them than all those other years put together.
