there 372's aren't bad but they get smoked by a simonized 372. it all depends who does the work too. Don is the best one in there. sadly, he doesn't work there anymore
at least for now. that is a walkers muffler but a rare one. i've seen them do that for firewood guys on the 3 series but it was a while back. they only do the 266 deflector ports on the 3 series now.
You think Donny was better than Don senior? They have built the fastest saws I have ever ran by far. When Don Senior was at the wheel; in '95, back in my tree spacing/thinning days, they build me a 266/272 top and that thing was insanely fast. Unbelievable! They definitely went all out on that one. We set it up with a new 16" narrow Windsor bar. On my 266 50mm & my 262 Walkerized I would always run full house and $hit hook it to the max and drop the rakers 5 times. Big mistake! That thing was sucking me im and spitting me out. At that time I had a big native (BFI) working for me by the name of Roy. It was a small job for Malispina college on the back side of Nanaimo,A cake walk in comperission to the Westside of the Island. Just as I decided I was going to get my 262, Roy was crossing the bottom of my strip with his little 026..lol and I yelled to him " Hey Roy!...you can use my new saw if you like".
Of course he took me up on it and the big man came back safe and managed to shorten the teeth for me.
Donny and the ol' man were asking me in a nonchalant way, did I happen to try the saw. I told them the story and they laughed hard. Donny said we didn't want to say much when we sold it to you, we were waiting to see what you were going to say. The range on that thing was unbelievable, I took it to "scream" once
Never to venture there again.
I believe they built that one together.
Now a days they are just guaranteed. The orders still come in and the saws go out and stay out. I still like the way they build the 372; responsive & fast. Fast on the limbs and still enough in the softwoods.
What you get here you lose there and what you lose there you get here. I will always take a saw that has chain speed & response and is Smooth coming on and off the trigger than one that has torque but fails in other areas for me when it comes to softwood Falling.
I haven't had them port anything since 2008. Tried lots of their 390 though.