Jonsered Chainsaws

[Real1shepherd]

Bob(Spike60), a longtime Jonsered dealer, preferred the 930/930 Super above all in that series. The loggers I know from the days when those saws were new preferred the 910 in the series. I'd sure jump on a 930 if the price was right but I've never seen one......mostly a Husky iteration at that point with Partner influenced handles.

Kevin

 

[Bob Hedgecutter]

Nice looking saw there Bob!!! You don't find hardly any of those in my neck of the woods either. I have 3-4 910s but no 920/30 series.

The entire 9## family are not an easy find here- Jonsered were a pretty small player in a fairly small field before the 600 and 20## saws arrived and even then they played a fairly minor third fiddle to the two major players.

 

[Bob Hedgecutter]

Bob(Spike60), a longtime Jonsered dealer, preferred the 930/930 Super above all in that series. The loggers I know from the days when those saws were new preferred the 910 in the series. I'd sure jump on a 930 if the price was right but I've never seen one......mostly a Husky iteration at that point with Partner influenced handles.

Kevin

Oh the price was right- for the condition, the fact it came with a nice 24 inch GB bar and near new chain- was well under $250 USD.

 

[Real1shepherd]

The entire 9## family are not an easy find here- Jonsered were a pretty small player in a fairly small field before the 600 and 20## saws arrived and even then they played a fairly minor third fiddle to the two major players.

If Jonsered(s) had any failings, it was in their marketing/dealer network. Their saws should have competed toe to toe with Husky and Stihl. The only extensive dealer network besides Tilton in MN and Scotsco in OR was back east. Robin said back in the day you could drive 20 minutes in any direction and hit a Jonsered(s) dealer in his neck of the woods.

Whatever it took to go national/international like Husky and Stihl....they just didn't do it. Yeah, when they got tied to Husky, you could buy their saws everywhere. But that wasn't the original parent company and a completely different saw through Electrolux Group AB.

Kevin

 

[Bob Hedgecutter]

If Jonsered(s) had any failings, it was in their marketing/dealer network. Their saws should have competed toe to toe with Husky and Stihl. The only extensive dealer network besides Tilton in MN and Scotsco in OR was back east. Robin said back in the day you could drive 20 minutes in any direction and hit a Jonsered(s) dealer in his neck of the woods.

Whatever it took to go national/international like Husky and Stihl....they just didn't do it. Yeah, when they got tied to Husky, you could buy their saws everywhere. But that wasn't the original parent company and a completely different saw through Electrolux Group AB.

Kevin

Just my opinion- but I believe they were happy with home market- Scandinavia and some of Europe was enough, they were not too concerned with the International market.

 

[Cantdog]

True..... there were 6 dealers within a 20 min drive from my place. In the late 70's the big sellers around here for the pro/seasonal cutting crowd were the 621, 52/52E, 521 and 49SP followed by the more expensive 70E and 80.....more or less in that order. By 85 most had closed or were about to, so the 9XX saws were late to the party as there is not much need for an expensive large saw in our forests.

 

[Real1shepherd]

Just my opinion- but I believe they were happy with home market- Scandinavia and some of Europe was enough, they were not too concerned with the International market.

LOL....I was actually going to write that! My feeling is that they were quite happy with the Euro market they had and were probably talked into the NA market. And that's exactly what Electrolux counted on; being able to swoop in and buy all the smaller Swede saw companies up. One year they were all there and then they were gone for the most part. Jonsered(in name) hung in there only because Electrolux knew they were going to merge the name with Husky eventually.

And what Robin said was true; scale was getting smaller and it was unusual except in private timber sales to need much over a 38" bar......even in the PNW. When it was taking 28 logs to make a log truck load, I bailed. You can't make serious money in that kinda scale. Everything changed. What used to be a good living became tree thinning for the National Forest system. Falling became an entry-level job.

The 100cc 910e was late to the party, plus they had casting issues and a lot were sent back. Electrolux looked at the current market and need....and then axed that saw. But carried on with the 920/930/930 Super. Gotta be the rarest 100cc in existence. If I was a better scrounger and traveled the PNW looking for it, I bet I could find a few stuffed into old logger's sheds. But I'm not that social or ambitious these days.......

Kevin