boutselis
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husqvarna 61 rancher and 034
I am pretty green because even though I have been cutting down trees for money for 20 years it isn't my real business. Around where I live there isn't a lot of husqvarna floating around. Its all stihl. Every dealer. The couple of places that sold huskies stayed in business for a very short time. I like saws and I buy some and clean/ fix them up and sell them sometimes. So when I got a chance to buy a 026, ms260 pro, ms360 pro and this 61 rancher for a total of $400 I took it. At the time I had no real idea what the rancher was. I didn't know husqvarna had the great idea of putting the cc's right in the model or that they even had a date on them. 2 things that stihl doesn't do. I only took the husqvarna because it was part of a package and thought it was going to be the first thing I got rid of.
That was until I used it. I don't know if it has had any work done to it but I'll take this rancher over the 360 pro any day. I sold the 360. This rancher is real quick and very powerful for its size. Even though its from 1985 It seems perfect. Its a damn good saw. well worth the $100 I spent on it.
The other one I'll never get rid of is my 034 (apart now for cab work. no pictures) but thats because its very ugly and I would never get what its really worth. Its too ugly for pictures anyway. Its a good saw also as long as you don't look at it.
I am pretty green because even though I have been cutting down trees for money for 20 years it isn't my real business. Around where I live there isn't a lot of husqvarna floating around. Its all stihl. Every dealer. The couple of places that sold huskies stayed in business for a very short time. I like saws and I buy some and clean/ fix them up and sell them sometimes. So when I got a chance to buy a 026, ms260 pro, ms360 pro and this 61 rancher for a total of $400 I took it. At the time I had no real idea what the rancher was. I didn't know husqvarna had the great idea of putting the cc's right in the model or that they even had a date on them. 2 things that stihl doesn't do. I only took the husqvarna because it was part of a package and thought it was going to be the first thing I got rid of.
That was until I used it. I don't know if it has had any work done to it but I'll take this rancher over the 360 pro any day. I sold the 360. This rancher is real quick and very powerful for its size. Even though its from 1985 It seems perfect. Its a damn good saw. well worth the $100 I spent on it.
The other one I'll never get rid of is my 034 (apart now for cab work. no pictures) but thats because its very ugly and I would never get what its really worth. Its too ugly for pictures anyway. Its a good saw also as long as you don't look at it.