sachsmo
Addicted to ArboristSite
Hope you guys are proud of yourselves, I started trolling this site Thanksgiving weekend. My old Homey 23av was getting pretty tired and I was tired of working on it every time out. So I says to myself, self you have been a good boy this year and deserve a real saw. Sooo I read up on what would be the best bang for my buck. I have a great Stihl dealer,(an old Amish chap) he knows his stuff and the prices are a good 10% under retail. The MS 361 was my choice, but with a spare chain and tax, we were pushing $600 out the door.Sooo I research some more and see that the Husqvarna 359 is a good pro type saw, and with some muffler modding will run with or outrun the 361. I look over the net and find, new E-tech 20" pro bar and 3 chains 439.50 to my door. I'm a genius, order the saw, couple days later a new non-cat muffler, and a new sprocket drum for the old Homey. Come on UPS, well the parts supplier called and said too bad about the Homelite parts they don't carry them anymore. No big deal got the sprocket from Gardner. The Huskey got here Tuesday, all looks good (even got a free hat and teeshirt) Put the bar and chain on and put it under the tree. Now I'm waiting on the muffler, aint even going to put fuel in it till I mod the no-cat and pop the limiters off.
Sooo I'm still reading up on good saws, I says to myself self go over to e-bay,I put a respectable bid in on a MS 260 with a bunch of extra chains (this is 4 days before the Husky got here) ( Hey I've been really good I needs 2 good saws) Let's see a 260 with 16" and the 359 with 20 " I'm set.
All this time reading about the Dolmar 5100, I see Thalls impression sooo I Google up Dolmar find a dealer 7 miles from home I go over there the day after the Husky arrived. That little red devil is sweet and feather lite. We take his personal 5100 out back and he lets me take a couple swipes at a 16" log I go for the biggest knot, That saw screamed right through no problem. This guy is also an Amish and he takes old farm implements and puts steel wheels on them and re-sells them to his clan. Sooo I'm thinking about that old John Deere drill sitting in the barn. You guessed it, we cut a deal on that saw and drill.
Sooo here I sit telling anyone who can get through all this hot air, THANK YOU SAW FREAKS, you have spraed your contagious disease to me. (hope you're happy now) There is one sad sidenote to this, I just got outbid on that MS 260 on ebay. That's OK the nice Amish gent has quoted me a price of $569 for a 7900. I must be nutz
Mo way out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
