Chainsaws

Hillbilly · Jul 13, 2001

My JD dealer sells John Deere tractors,but no JohnDeere chainsaws,he sells Stihl instead.It doesnt seem ethical.I figured a green chainsaw would have to be the best! No?

Anonymous Poster · Jul 13, 2001

Hillbilly,

If you had a choice between Homelite or Stihl for about the same price... which would you buy?

No offense, even NOT at the same price... who makes the better overall chainsaw?

RobS · Jul 13, 2001

NO! I'm a big fan of green tractors, but for a great chain saw you have to go orange. Get a Stihl /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Gomez · Jul 13, 2001

It's deja vu all over again.

Hillbilly · Jul 13, 2001

I have a Stihl and I am not going to change.I was just poking a little fun,I asked the dealer if they carried JD saws via the phone knowing they carried Stihl saws just to hear what he would say and why he didnt carry JD power equipment..I like my tractors green and my chainsaws and brush cutters orange.

Anonymous Poster · Jul 13, 2001

...brush cutters orange...

Hillbilly... I've never seen an orange rotary cutter.../w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

By the way, you have great taste in chainsaws.../w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Bird · Jul 13, 2001

Well, I'm sure you guys are right about the Stihl and Husky saws, but us amateurs . . .. I've got an orange tractor, but a green saw; a Poulan Wood Shark. It hadn't been used in a year and a half, and I even forgot to run the gas out of it the last time, but this week, I got it out, dumped the old gas out, put fresh gas in, fired it up and went at the tree pruning. May not be big enough for serious forestry work, but then neither am I./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Bird

Hillbilly · Jul 13, 2001

By brush cutters,I mean a heavy duty style grass trimmer with a brush blade for the heavy stuff that the string and teflon blades will not handle.

Mine is a Stihl FS 88,if you really want to get serious Stihl has an FS 550 clearing saw.Awesome stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!

happysawer · Oct 3, 2020

I might be some what late with my reply since this thread was in 2001, but I just joined this forum.
So here gos I just bought a STIHL MS211 had a PulanPro. Bought in 2013, just wondering if anyone from this old thread are sill around.

Sawyer Rob · Oct 3, 2020

I'm still "a round", because I never was a square... lol

Anyway, all of my "useful" saws are Husqvarna... I'll probably stick with that brand because Husky saws have been good reliable saws for me.

SR

cqaigy2 · Oct 3, 2020

Sawyer Rob said:
I'm still "a round", because I never was a square... lol

Anyway, all of my "useful" saws are Husqvarna... I'll probably stick with that brand because Husky saws have been good reliable saws for me.

SR

Are you a round filer or square.

i7win7 · Oct 3, 2020

Beaver Blades | Trimmer Parts | MFG Supply

put these on string trimmers to cut small brush flush to ground, no bending over.

happysawer · Oct 3, 2020

Sawyer Rob said:
I'm still "a round", because I never was a square... lol

Anyway, all of my "useful" saws are Husqvarna... I'll probably stick with that brand because Husky saws have been good reliable saws for me.

SR

I went a long way back to 2001 and read some of the threads, a lot of the same questions being asked with good answers.
Was wondering if some of the people who were answering the questions then were today answering the same questions.

Rebeldad1 · Oct 3, 2020

Follow your dream and buy a can of JD green paint. of the two Stihl is a better choice.

sd455dan · Oct 3, 2020

Hillbilly said:
My JD dealer sells John Deere tractors,but no JohnDeere chainsaws,he sells Stihl instead.It doesnt seem ethical.I figured a green chainsaw would have to be the best! No?

Could buy an Older Deere saw:

Early (1960s) JD-branded chainsaws were made by Remington, and were based on some of Remington's most popular models of the day - especially the PL-4 and the MightyMite.

Later JD chainsaws (1970s into the 1980s) were made by Kioritz Corporation in Japan, makers of Echo chainsaws

Still have my JD string trimmer built by ECHO my guess is the saws are well built to

Lots of used ebay "JD" saws

https://www.ebay.com/i/143681711683...8Ck1bQ1Lxg5Pl-Ehw4XHTgNUju-2S8OkaAk8qEALw_wcB

Sawyer Rob · Oct 3, 2020

cqaigy2 said:
Are you a round filer or square.

I'm a NEVER filer...

SR

happysawer · Oct 3, 2020

Hillbilly said:
My JD dealer sells John Deere tractors,but no JohnDeere chainsaws,he sells Stihl instead.It doesnt seem ethical.I figured a green chainsaw would have to be the best! No?

Ask your J.D. dealer if he can get you a John Deere 703JH with the Waratah 622b attachment, then you won't need to carry a chainsaw around anymore.

John_Mc · Oct 7, 2020

i7win7 said:
Beaver Blades | Trimmer Parts | MFG Supply

put these on string trimmers to cut small brush flush to ground, no bending over.

Your typical grass cutting string trimmer will not handle one of those. They simply do not have the power for acceptable performance as a brush or clearing saw. Personally, I stay away of the Beaver blades or other chainsaw tooth type on my brush clearing saws, be cause they rob much more power than cutting with a Maxi blade (one of the types that looks a bit like a circular saw blade).

kenmbz · Oct 8, 2020

I use the Stihl circular saw type blades on my FS110 and they work well on that size brush cutter.
Have an Echo CS490 with 18 and 20" bars and have been happy so far. Cut up about a dozen large ash plus the usual maintenance with no issues.