The endless debate - Husky or Stihl?? Why??

thumbtrap · Dec 28, 2002

I have a Pullin and pullin and pullin and pullin and pullin and pullin saw that I just can't keep running. I'm thinking about painting it orange and leaving it out next to where I kept the mower someone stole last summer.

That's my only reccomendation - don't buy a Pullin and pullin and pullin.

thumbtrap · Jan 7, 2003

Arrrrgh. I broke down (actually my Poulan did) and I bought a Stihl. I had it for less than a week, and today, I come home and someone broke down the door to my mudroom, and stole my Stihl, leaving the Poulan and a mess of ammo/reloading supplies. (While that stuff cost me a lot - it has a poor dollar to pound resale value). The Poulan was literally on the floor next to it and they left it alone.

Arrrggggh.

BigDave · Jan 7, 2003

Sorry to hear the bad news. Kind of adding insult to injury that they took the Stihl and left the Poulan behind.

Anonymous Poster · Jan 7, 2003

At least you'll finally get something out of those homeowners premiums, after all.

wroughtn_harv · Jan 8, 2003

Times are getting harder evidently. The thieves are leaving the malls where they can knock off purses and SUVs for where they can steal tools.

A bud just had his seamless gutter machine trailer stolen. Four days later a trucker called wanting to know if he was missing a trailer because there was one with his telephone number on it that had been sitting where the truckers park their rigs while home. They didn't mess with the fifteen thousand dollar machine. They didn't grab the thousand pounds or so of aluminum material. But he did lose his six hundred dollar chop saw and over a thousand dollars worth of ladders.

Tomorrow I go put in some pipe fence and a cable across the drive of a local cabinet shop. I'm also going to fix the walk in door where getting in will be a chore. They just lost over twenty thousand dollars worth of tools last weekend in a break out. (they think the thieves hid in the shop until everyone left and then cleaned out the place that evening)

At the cafe everyone knows someone who's been ripped off in the last couple of weeks.

Inside my shop I have a large steel room where all the easy to pawn stuff goes. The only thing harder on the heart than the loss is knowing the price it will go for on the market.

I not only won't buy if there is the smallest suspicion of something being hot. I usually will call and give my suspicions to the cops.

Of course folks who buy hot stuff ain't much smarter than the thief. The thief now knows who has the item when they're short of cash and need something that will sell quick. And that person has cash too. Doo to whom doo is due in spades.

SPIKER · Apr 30, 2004

Just wanted to BUMP this up as I was looking for saws in a different post. and this one came up.

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Buckcreek · May 2, 2004

Ive had a man cutting some trees for me and he had 3 diffrent stihls, i have a craftsman. He sharpened my craftsman for me and tried it out on some tree tops, and said he didnt see how i cut with it . He told me to try his stihl out, and it was like daylight and dark, no vibration like the craftsman. I think the craftsman is a poulan , because my brotherinlaw has a poulan and thier almost identical.

Bird · May 2, 2004

( I think the craftsman is a poulan )

Probably so; I know they used to be anyway.

( He sharpened my craftsman for me and tried it out on some tree tops, and said he didnt see how i cut with it )

I've owned two Poulans and one of my brothers had a Stihl. Now I know that the Stihl is a great saw, and my brother's Stihl was a larger saw than my Poulan, so the darned thing was too heavy for an old man like me. I much preferred the Poulans and couldn't have asked for anything to cut better. Your statement that he "sharpened" your Craftsman makes me wonder a bit. You know different chains are made a little differently and have to be sharpened differently. I had a dealer "sharpen" a chain once and it was as bad or worse than when I took it to him. Then I found an older man who was second generation in the sharpening business; chain saws, knives, pizza cutters, scissors, mower blades, and anything else with an edge on it. He showed me what the dealer did wrong, sharpened that same chain, and it would cut through oak like a hot knife through butter.

BillyP · May 2, 2004

That Craftsman was built by Electrolux Home Products, in DeQueen AR. They built 1.6 million gas chainsaws last year (world's largest chainsaw plant). That doesn't include gas/electric trimmers, electric chainsaws. hedge trimmers and so on.