Husky vs. Stihl

[Bad E]

Go with your best dealer. In my area I the Stihl dealers are as arrogant as the Stihl owners are on here.:greenchainsaw: Thats why I went Husky, and it is a great saw to boot.

 

[Lakeside53]

Go with your best dealer. In my area I the Stihl dealers are as arrogant as the Stihl owners are on here.:greenchainsaw: Thats why I went Husky, and it is a great saw to boot.

Every time I boot a Husky it bites me.

 

[sugarbush]

Go with your best dealer. In my area I the Stihl dealers are as arrogant as the Stihl owners are on here.:greenchainsaw: Thats why I went Husky, and it is a great saw to boot.

Bad-E, your in for some bad press. came hardly wait to see the Incomeing.

 

[Lakeside53]

Stopped in by the local Husky dealer on Monday and he said its not the pro saws its the damn homeowners.. Hes pissed because the box stores sell them and he gets stuck with there warranty work.. The companys dont pay good for that type of repairs..

I hear same that same sentiment all over...

..and I'm willing to bet that much of that is due to lack of knowledgeable sales staff, no demo, no talk though the issues of safety and gas, and....

We sell a lot of new Stihls because the homeowner can't get Home Depot to fix their 2 year old Poulan/xxx/xxx, we won't fix them, and the same is going to happen to Husky if they stay with the box stores. Must be just great to be a Husky or Echo dealer near Lowes and Home Depot, and around here there are 8 of each box stores within 20-30 minutes of driving, then add in Costco, and Sears, and ... but all this is another thread thats been thrashed out before.

Back to the thread - I love my 361, and we have sold a boat load to pros and lumber yards, and they love them... so much they are buying more after beating the daylights out of them for 18 months.

 

[Bad E]

Bad-E, your in for some bad press. came hardly wait to see the Incomeing.

I knew it right up front...but I just can't let you Stihl guys run free.

A buddy of mine owns Stihl and he has that same arrogant attitude, but his Stihl is bigger than my Husky, so I have to let him ride.

 

[Allan.K]

Stihl doen't need the warranty!

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Other saws need the warranty.....

 

[sugarbush]

Stopped in by the local Husky dealer on Monday and he said its not the pro saws its the damn homeowners.. Hes pissed because the box stores sell them and he gets stuck with there warranty work.. The companys dont pay good for that type of repairs..

Refuse to do the warranty work. if evey dealer done that, the box store's may not look so appealing.

 

[04ultra]

Refuse to do the warranty work. if evey dealer done that, the box store's may not look so appealing.

They told me the only thing good about it is the people bringing in there saws buy oil and extra chains ect.

 

[xring]

I am in a business that had a lot of independant sales & service. Big box stores came in took the easy money & provide little or no service. Mfgs expected us to cover service under warr. for $35.00 per hr. We would do it but it alwayes seemed that those machines had very troublesome problems that took quite a while to troubleshoot.

 

[1I'dJak]

i did a lot of juvenile thinning...spacing out 2nd growth stands... its based on production so you give'er... we used husky 266's, 272's 365;s and jonnyred 670's and 2071's with 16 or 18' bars (only saw one guy with a stihl)... some guys had their saws ported and high speed sprockets... lethal with a 16 inch bar...used both stihl and husky... but i found the husky's were tougher, ... the components that is...these saws took alot of abuse, you're constantly falling, smashing your saw, working in the rain and sleet... i found out that some of the stihl components were kinds rinky dink.. i remember we were working in snowy conditions and the throttle linkange on my stihl (it was one of their 60 ish cc models were were testing cuz the local saw shop was curious why all the spacers used husky) kept popping off cuz it was getting gummed with snow...but i think all saws are becoming more platicky and rinky dink anyways..

 

[sugarbush]

i did a lot of juvenile thinning...spacing out 2nd growth stands... its based on production so you give'er... we used husky 266's, 272's 365;s and jonnyred 670's and 2071's with 16 or 18' bars (only saw one guy with a stihl)... some guys had their saws ported and high speed sprockets... lethal with a 16 inch bar...used both stihl and husky... but i found the husky's were tougher, ... the components that is...these saws took alot of abuse, you're constantly falling, smashing your saw, working in the rain and sleet... i found out that some of the stihl components were kinds rinky dink.. i remember we were working in snowy conditions and the throttle linkange on my stihl (it was one of their 60 ish cc models were were testing cuz the local saw shop was curious why all the spacers used husky) kept popping off cuz it was getting gummed with snow...but i think all saws are becoming more platicky and rinky dink anyways..

How do you keep those saw's running in the wet weather.?

 

[clearance]

Yeah, come to think of it Jak, I did juvenile spacing out at Harrison lake in 93-94 and almost everyone ran a 266XP, killer machine. Never saw anyone space with a Stihl. At that time and now the Huskies rev up a lot quicker, way better for that job, crazy job that it is. That is THE test for a saw, if it can live doing that, it is OK.. Stihl do make some very good saws though, no doubt, 034, 460, 020....

 

[babalu87]

They told me the only thing good about it is the people bringing in there saws buy oil and extra chains ect.

Jim Beam is Bourbon.
Jack Daniels is not.

The whiskey bottle's label contains an amazing amount of information to help you separate the good from the ugly. Jack Daniels, for example, says "Tennessee Sour Mash Whiskey," meaning that (by law) the entire Whiskey was made in the state of Tennessee, and that some of the mash used to make one batch is added to the next batch (that's what "sour" means).

Jim Beam's label identifies the bourbon as a Sour Mash Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey. What this means, is that Jim Beam is not blended with other whiskeys, that the mash contains 51% corn, some of the mash from the previous batch is added to the next one, and that the entire product was made within the state of Kentucky. (The label also says "The World's Finest Bourbon")

:greenchainsaw:

Box stores shouldnt sell what they wont service

 

[1I'dJak]

sometimes if it was really wet your saw would just crap out.. not wanna start... but to me it seemed those 266xp's just wouldn't quit... ran a 670 champ (jnosared) and it seemd a lot more fickle in the wet weather...

 

[West Texas]

Well Babalu I'll take my Jack Daniel's Black Label and branch water any time I have time to relax and enjoy. Drank a lot Beam in the Army; but, Jack stands the test of time in my book. How's that for getting a 'wet' angle on Stihl and Husky's?

 

[Lakeside53]

Well Babalu I'll take my Jack Daniel's Black Label and branch water any time I have time to relax and enjoy. Drank a lot Beam in the Army; but, Jack stands the test of time in my book. How's that for getting a 'wet' angle on Stihl and Husky's?

personally, a good single malt scotch does it for me... I can smell the peat smoke rolling down the glens, but I digress...

 

[sawn_penn]

Refuse to do the warranty work. if evey dealer done that, the box store's may not look so appealing.

As long as a dealer can cover their time and parts expenses by billing the distributer/brand, warranty work is probably a good thing.

If a guy buys a product from a box store (and has problems) he'll quickly discover the box store stepping back from any responsibility and sending him to a specialist. That's a customer that you probably wouldn't have seen before.

In my case that warranty dealer (and the Husky team in Australia) did such a shocking job that it lead me to find the Stihl dealer I use now.

Box stores certainly put a lot of product in front of a lot of people. How many times have you been to Home Depot (or Bunnings, the down-under equivalent) and walked out with a product you hadn't thought of when you walked in?

 

[Lakeside53]

As long as a dealer can cover their time and parts expenses by billing the distributer/brand, warranty work is probably a good thing.

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This relates to Stihl only - Anyone know the Husky warranty deal?

Parts - yes. Time, not generally. They don't pay diagnostic time (they assume you'll know it's an impulse line instantly, not a seal or carb etc), and only pay at preset factory times for replacement (which assumes brand new new clean parts at the factory, not broken fasteners etc etc), and, depending on what State you are in, pays some BS shop rate that Stihl invents. WA law doesn't force Stihl to reimburse us at shop rate, so they don't and pays about $20 per hours less. If A "Gold" tech works on they, they are slightly more generous... but you won't get rich (or even be happy) doing box store, or in our case, other dealers sales low end homeowner type saw repairs. In the middle of winter when its slow, maybe, but in the spring when we are buried in repairs, the few "warranty" repairs from the other stores really eat up the profitable shop time. The other problem is: 90% of the problem is fuel related, and now we have to tell the customer - "just because it didn't start and won't run doesn't mean its covered by warranty..".

 

[sawn_penn]

Although that doesn't sound like a great deal, I guess with Stihl everything was sold out of a dealer who should have told the buyer how to operate it, right?

Anyway... weren't you saying that there is very little Stihl warranty work? ( or did that exclude faults with the mechanism that applies pressure to the throttle? )

 

[PWB]

personally, a good single malt scotch does it for me... I can smell the peat smoke rolling down the glens, but I digress...

Working on a bottle of "The Glenlivet" right now.

Three stihls here, no good husky dealers close.
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