We've had several trees die from the drought the last two or three years and they need cut down and cut up sooner or later. For the last ten years or so I have had an Echo CS-305 and love it (I have a messed up right shoulder and it's 7.5 lb weight is really nice). I've cut down and up a few trees (some of which were way out of it's size range but it did them) and cut up a LOT of limbs that fell with it. It's been great. With all we have to cut up now I didn't want to put all the work on my baby and some of them are a little too big for the Echo anyway.
I was watching the refurbished chainsaw place for a sale on the Husqvarna 435, but the Poulan Pro 4218A popped up for a very short time for $74.99 total to my house. I don't know if the price was a mistake or what but a few days later it showed up on the brown truck and looked new. I bought it knowing that it would probably be out of tune and it was. It was so far out of tune that it wouldn't hardly run and was probably the reason it had been returned, but after a good tuning it runs like a top, starts perfect and cuts good. It now has a Oregon 91VXL062G chain with the factory for a spare.
Money was a major object but I still wonder what or if I would have gained quality wise holding out for the Husqvarna 435. I would have for sure had a little less weight.
I was watching the refurbished chainsaw place for a sale on the Husqvarna 435, but the Poulan Pro 4218A popped up for a very short time for $74.99 total to my house. I don't know if the price was a mistake or what but a few days later it showed up on the brown truck and looked new. I bought it knowing that it would probably be out of tune and it was. It was so far out of tune that it wouldn't hardly run and was probably the reason it had been returned, but after a good tuning it runs like a top, starts perfect and cuts good. It now has a Oregon 91VXL062G chain with the factory for a spare.
Money was a major object but I still wonder what or if I would have gained quality wise holding out for the Husqvarna 435. I would have for sure had a little less weight.