Value of your collection?

[Rokon]

I'm just starting out. Dollar wise, my wife thinks it's an interesting pile of junk.

 

[a. palmer jr.]

I'm just starting out. Dollar wise, my wife thinks it's an interesting pile of junk.

My wife loves it when I sell one!

 

[oldmanriver]

My wife loves it when I sell one!

Mine hates it when i sell one because she knows that i will more than likly buy two more that i will spend time and fix up with the money i made

 

[ChainsawmanXX]

This thread might be a bad idea???
All your guy's wife's will get on here see how much "your piles of junk" are really worth and try to kill you all off to get the money

luckily.. Im single

 

[ChainsawmanXX]

The value of my collection will go up some once i receive in the mail the chainsaw that i purchased from you last weekend. :msp_biggrin:

Oh wait a minute!..... You didn't add that saw in with your collection total did you!!!??

:hmm3grin2orange::jester:

No I didnt, I still havent taken it out of my sig yet :bang:

 

[oldmanriver]

No I didnt, I still havent taken it out of my sig yet :bang:

Just keep it in your sig. At the rate your adding to your collection you will have another one in there before long :hmm3grin2orange:

 

[thomasjf]

Well

I know how much I paid for them. Bars and chains are expendables, although some present value. But it doesn't matter much until the day comes that I want to sell them all.
Then the value will be dictated by the market, the condition they are in, and other factors. That may be tomorrow or years down the road. Truthfully, I have them for a reason just like my other tools. Cost was justified when I bought them. Some I needed, some I wanted.

Now, don't you feel better, you don't have to worry about having more than at least one of us. HA!

 

[a. palmer jr.]

This thread might be a bad idea???
All your guy's wife's will get on here see how much "your piles of junk" are really worth and try to kill you all off to get the money

luckily.. Im single

My wife's computer illiterate..

 

[merc_man]

priceless

 

[Wood Doctor]

My Conclusion

A firewood (or chainsaw) collection has value to only those who burn firewood. To those who do not, it is worthless, unless they earn their living by cutting wood.

Many people buy chainsaws only whenever trees fall down in the yard or threaten the house. Even then they just call up a service and pay to have it all done. Remember that chainsaws frighten many people, and most cannot even start one of them.

 

[alderman]

My entire collection of running equipment cost me $6,470.82 as near as I can figure.
This doesn't include bars and chains on all of them, but most of them came with a useable bar and chain anyway.

 

[PEKS]

My entire collection of running equipment cost me $6,470.82 as near as I can figure.
This doesn't include bars and chains on all of them, but most of them came with a useable bar and chain anyway.

Alderman,
Could you be abit more exact..:msp_biggrin:

 

[Guido Salvage]

My entire collection of running equipment cost me $6,470.82 as near as I can figure.
This doesn't include bars and chains on all of them, but most of them came with a useable bar and chain anyway.

Is that net present value and have you factored in inflation?

 

[NORMZILLA44]

I have no big problem.
All my saws are 5 miles away from my house

Yeah, good post jacob, and I have wondered that too, and only guessed. Never totaled em up now I will. As far as people being worried about it being a public place and posting. I wouldn't because most people on this site know what saws we have anyway, either by our bragging or the posting with a list of saws below our names. They won't need a dollar amount next to it they already would know what they are worth.

 

[blsnelling]

I've got probably at least $200-300 in mine.

 

[tbow388]

Change

I think I have changed my answer to this thread. I believe I now owe more on my collection than they are worth unless you are a collector.

 

[leeha]

I've got probably at least $200-300 in mine.

Ya, Me too.




Lee

 

[zogger]

Perfect opportunity for you guys living in bunkers and armed with machine guns to chime in about protecting your stuff... :hmm3grin2orange:

I can't imagine with all your antique stuff you don't have an old black powder cannon stashed away....

 

[a. palmer jr.]

Yeah, good post jacob, and I have wondered that too, and only guessed. Never totaled em up now I will. As far as people being worried about it being a public place and posting. I wouldn't because most people on this site know what saws we have anyway, either by our bragging or the posting with a list of saws below our names. They won't need a dollar amount next to it they already would know what they are worth.

A lot of these collector saws we on AS have would be worthless to a thief. A new Wild Thing to them would be more valuable than a nice looking 797 because they mostly are not saw collectors and a Wild Thing would be easier to carry.

My C5 would be another example. I have it in my mind that it is a keeper, along with a Mac 1-40 that I like but people not collecting saws would think they are heavy, worthless old relics. Moneywise they probably aren't worth over $50 but it's not always about the money with us.

 

[a. palmer jr.]

I've got probably at least $200-300 in mine.

I think the question was, what is it worth. I have quite a bit less in mine than what it may be worth because of selling some of the least desirable saws so I can buy some that are a little nicer.