Would have been funny to watch you stihl guys bash my magnesium cased homeowner poulans, if this would have happened to one of them. Instead of making up reasons why a $500 homeowner saw cant hang with the smaller $150-$350 homeowner saws of other brands. I know for a fact with my bad stihl dealers in town, I will never own a new one. Might buy a used one someday just to see what all the fuss was about, then again. I dont need pro saws as a homeowner and it seems that even the stihl fans here (75%) of AS members, Dont care for stihls homeowner models. Well there is alot of us homeowners out there. I understand the guys saying :censored: me once shame on you, :censored: me twice shame on me. I felt the same way, just being talked to by the stihl salesman gave me the bad taste. Bloated ego type salesman. But my point was, if this had been a poulan or another type do you think it would have been defended for 8 pages by 75% of the AS. Naw they would be to busy bashing, saying pullon and etc. Most of the post for hard starting saws here, that I have noticed is coming from stihl homeowners having troubles with starting their homeowner Pull-stihls. It would have been nice if ALL stihl dealers were as knowledgeable as the ones I read on here from WA and VA. Maybe things would have been different. But instead, I ran into the higher % of the bad dealer out there too. Heres some gas have fun.