Chainsaw brands, full time vs. part time.....

[MossRoad]

My heat bill is over $300 a month if I don't burn wood, and that's heated 10 degrease cooler than if I was burning wood. That's not a McDonald's salary.

Over $300 a month in TN? OUCH! Buy some insulation. We get mad if ours hits $200 in northern Indiana without wood. With wood, ours is usually around $45 per month. We have a gas stove, water heater and clothes dryer.

 

[TomSeller]

I buy pro grade Stihls,. I could buy a cheap pair of shoes, but then I'd have to wear them. I don't see the point.

 

[MossRoad]

I buy pro grade Stihls,. I could buy a cheap pair of shoes, but then I'd have to wear them. I don't see the point.

Why aren't you driving a Bugatti Veyron? I don't see the point???

 

[Deere Dude]

My heat bill is over $300 a month if I don't burn wood, and that's heated 10 degrease cooler than if I was burning wood. That's not a McDonald's salary.

I burn wood and I would never heat the house to the higher temperature I do now if I didn't. I just love the ambiance of a fireplace burning in the evening even though it takes effort to keep it fed.

I bought an Echo 60cc 620p with a 3/8" chain and I like how effortlessly it cuts through oak logs. The reason I got that is because I was sick of fighting a 50cc and a 55cc saws through bigger logs. What used to take 1 minute to cut through a log, now takes 17 seconds. If I was strapped for cash I would have just kept what I had and would have been fine with it.

I don't cut really that much wood and didn't need a big hot pro saw but still wanted something with nads. I never considered anything other than the very well known and well reviewed saws and as hard as it is to pull these saws over when they have problems I am not sure I would have even considered a Chinese saw unless there were many many positive reviews about them, even though it looks like they cut fairly good.

 

[DieselnHooters]

Exercise to keep fit, getting out of the house, and getting outdoors, and some fun factor. Hard to figure in a price and all a big win. Like your math !

There is all that but there is still a substantial financial gain to be had in the end whenever you have a plan to improve your woodlot like no highgrading, building solid lopgging roads with ditches, favoring the more valuable climax species ...where I am those would be black cherry, yellow birch , oak and most of all the REAL MAPLE aka sugar maple.

It is win/win in the end.

 

[4570Man]

Why aren't you driving a Bugatti Veyron? I don't see the point???

I can afford a $1000 pro saw and a beat up pickup. A Bugatti Veyron isn't a realistic comparison. Even if I had one I couldn't haul my tractor and firewood.

 

[yomax4]

I have a 35 year old Stihl 034 super that was made in West Germany. Still a go to saw. I could sell it today for more than it was new. I'm not sure what the resale would be on a box store saw after it was used.

 

[newbury]

I bought an ms361 used for $400. Used it for about 4 years and sold it for $500. So, I guess my annual cost was -$25. Not too bad in my book. My Shindaiwa 488, stihl 460, and Stihl 660 would all be easy to sell for as much or more than I paid for them.

Well my annual cost for my 120CC Stihl 088 is down to about $100. Bought used with a 36" bar AND an Alaskan Mark II Chainsaw Mill for $450. But I'm NOT selling it.

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121.6 CC of beauty and power. Purrs like a 7.3L diesel without the exhaust pipes.
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But the "system"cost is going to rise because I HAVE to get a much bigger bar. Heck my 660's run a 42" bar.

 

[Oldpath05]

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2'' chainsaw shootout. Craftsman 5cc,Stihl ms271 Farmboss,Bluemax and Husqvarna 45 rancher - YouTube

Not a bad vid, but wheres the stop watch, to me it looked more like a saw starting contest, and the BlueMax won with one pull at 1:25, just like the guy I work with said, he said his starts everytime, 1-3 pulls, all them other saws took 6+ and when my 550xp gets stubborn, it can take as much as 50 pulls.

 

[TomSeller]

Why aren't you driving a Bugatti Veyron? I don't see the point???

I could buy cheap wine but then I'd have to drink it. I don't see the point.

I have a neighbor that bought a cheap saw and cuts limbs with it when they fall. Then when a tree fell last year he wanted to borrow one of my saws because his saw wasn't up to it. I wish he'd just spend the money and get a good saw. Same with everything else with this guy. He is cheap, really cheap.