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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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.

 

[motownbrowne]

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.


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.

I just hate hearing about that 088. I hope you lose sleep over stealing that thing.

Yes, you're gonna spend some serious coin on a big bar for that thing. Left coast supplies has some good deals on long GB bars, which are very good quality. You'll still be looking at over $300 for a 60" bar, though.

 

[MossRoad]

Yes, its nice to have the best of everything. And to each his own. But there's plenty of stories about cheap wines winning tasting contests much to the disdain of wine snobs and cork dorks everywhere.

 

[Oldpath05]

One thing I've noticed with my 550xp is when I store it vertical till the next weekend saw time/playtime/exercise time, with half tank or more of fuel, 2 pulls with choke on, floods right out, gas runs out the muffler, but store the saw level and starts rite up. Now aint that a hummer cant store my saw vertical unless out of gas. I suppose the problem could be that so called auto-tune thing, too me auto-tune is where I hold up the chainsaw towards a satellite and Husqvarna will send a signal from Sweden and tune-up my saw or they might send another signal saying, dont store the chainsaw vertical...........

 

[Oldpath05]

I can see I'm in a lower pay grade, I didn't even know what a Bugatti Veyron was till I google it, 1.5 million$$$$$$$$, OUCH hope it comes with a good warranty....

 

[Oldpath05]

So far from what I read, the Jonsered crowd is awfully quiet and I have two that's 10 years old, guess I'm a crowd of one.

Edit, or we'r all watching the ball game, go Cubs

 

[MossRoad]

I can see I'm in a lower pay grade, I didn't even know what a Bugatti Veyron was till I google it, 1.5 million$$$$$$$$, OUCH hope it comes with a good warranty....

Neat car, eh? :laughing:

Here's one you can get that's slightly used....

 

[TomSeller]

Yes, its nice to have the best of everything. And to each his own. But there's plenty of stories about cheap wines winning tasting contests much to the disdain of wine snobs and cork dorks everywhere.

Drink up, don't waste a drop.

 

[MossRoad]

Drunk up.

 

[Citydude]

Yes, its nice to have the best of everything. And to each his own. But there's plenty of stories about cheap wines winning tasting contests much to the disdain of wine snobs and cork dorks everywhere.

I subscribed to Wine Spectator for a few years. I always looked forward to the ratings of different wines. Costs were included in the ratings. California, with out doubt, has the best wines out there world wide and for a lot less money. Time after time I seen a California wine rated exceptional and under $20.00. Yes, I'm a cork dork

 

[Citydude]

I subscribed to Wine Spectator for a few years. I always looked forward to the ratings of different wines. Costs were included in the ratings. California, with out doubt, has the best wines out there world wide and for a lot less money. Time after time I seen a California wine rated exceptional and under $20.00. Yes, I'm a cork dork

Oh, and I'm a ms362 owner, 20" bar. Fantastic, lightweight pro saw.