I limb with an 070 pretty often and I am 71. I hope to be cutting another twenty years we will see. Thanks
What is your favorite chainsaw of all time?
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Ummmmm... maybe it's just me.. but wasn't the OP's question actually "one saw for the rest of your life"?
A lot of answers seem to be more answering "favourite saw (s)".. Not "one saw for the rest of your life?"
Truly, that answer would really depend on your age. My answer 20 years ago would, obviously, different than my answer now.
How about .. "what was your favourite saw 20 years ago" .. What's your favourite saw now.., or,... Which of your collection would you keep, if you could keep only one?"
While I've got the keyboard out and the time to type, lemme tell you about the one saw that I was glad to get rid of.. One night, at work ( I worked in a bar at the time), a customer walks up to me at the door, and asks me if I wanted to buy a chainsaw.. What an 'effin random thing to be asked!! He said his credit card had been declined, and he wanted another couple of beers.. He said the chainsaw could be mine for the whopping sum of $20.00 ( CDN) .. Maybe, I said.. let's see it! Truly, I don't remember what even brand it was. He calls me outside the door, and damn if he doesn't fire it up in the parking lot.. LMFAO. Security lost their minds , and I told him I'd take it, just to get him to shut it off. So, $20.00 later, I've got a chain saw in my trunk, and he's got enough cash for 3 more beers.
Well, the saw ran fine.. mostly.. but it was hit and miss. It'd start, and run like a champ, and then, it was a crap shoot on whether or not it would re-start. It was frustration on a scale I'd never experienced. I eventually figured out that it was probably bad crank seals. At that time, I didn't know how to diagnose that. They may leak a bit, and still start cold, but you can't count on enough vacuum to draw enough mixture through the carb for proper atomization to start when hot.
In front of my suburban house, there was a tree that we called the "magic tree". If you left something under it, it would usually disappear by the next day.. Finally .. one day.. The 'effin thing started, worked, and then refused to re-start.. I threw it under the magic tree, and then went inside. From my living room couch, I could see the magic tree. I cracked a cold one, and sat back and watched..
It wasn't even 20 minutes later, when someone pulled up in a pick up truck, and stopped just a few feet past the magic tree. He got out, and did the classic .. look right .. look left.. look around a bit more.. and then ran over .. grabbed the saw, tossed it in the back of the pick up.. he ran back to the cab, jumped in and then left like his ass was on fire.. I was sitting on my couch, watching leave with what he thought was the score of the decade. I was almost pissing myself..
I figured .. "Karma is a bitch".. He thought that he was stealing a saw left out by a home owner by mistake.. He thought that he was the winner.. LOL.
In my mind.. I wondered how much aggravation that that saw had cost him.
Saw I'd say was the last saw for me ever? .. One thing..
Saw I'd say was ever the saw that I'm so 'effin glad I got rid of? Another thing entirely!!
A lot of answers seem to be more answering "favourite saw (s)".. Not "one saw for the rest of your life?"
Truly, that answer would really depend on your age. My answer 20 years ago would, obviously, different than my answer now.
How about .. "what was your favourite saw 20 years ago" .. What's your favourite saw now.., or,... Which of your collection would you keep, if you could keep only one?"
While I've got the keyboard out and the time to type, lemme tell you about the one saw that I was glad to get rid of.. One night, at work ( I worked in a bar at the time), a customer walks up to me at the door, and asks me if I wanted to buy a chainsaw.. What an 'effin random thing to be asked!! He said his credit card had been declined, and he wanted another couple of beers.. He said the chainsaw could be mine for the whopping sum of $20.00 ( CDN) .. Maybe, I said.. let's see it! Truly, I don't remember what even brand it was. He calls me outside the door, and damn if he doesn't fire it up in the parking lot.. LMFAO. Security lost their minds , and I told him I'd take it, just to get him to shut it off. So, $20.00 later, I've got a chain saw in my trunk, and he's got enough cash for 3 more beers.
Well, the saw ran fine.. mostly.. but it was hit and miss. It'd start, and run like a champ, and then, it was a crap shoot on whether or not it would re-start. It was frustration on a scale I'd never experienced. I eventually figured out that it was probably bad crank seals. At that time, I didn't know how to diagnose that. They may leak a bit, and still start cold, but you can't count on enough vacuum to draw enough mixture through the carb for proper atomization to start when hot.
In front of my suburban house, there was a tree that we called the "magic tree". If you left something under it, it would usually disappear by the next day.. Finally .. one day.. The 'effin thing started, worked, and then refused to re-start.. I threw it under the magic tree, and then went inside. From my living room couch, I could see the magic tree. I cracked a cold one, and sat back and watched..
It wasn't even 20 minutes later, when someone pulled up in a pick up truck, and stopped just a few feet past the magic tree. He got out, and did the classic .. look right .. look left.. look around a bit more.. and then ran over .. grabbed the saw, tossed it in the back of the pick up.. he ran back to the cab, jumped in and then left like his ass was on fire.. I was sitting on my couch, watching leave with what he thought was the score of the decade. I was almost pissing myself..
I figured .. "Karma is a bitch".. He thought that he was stealing a saw left out by a home owner by mistake.. He thought that he was the winner.. LOL.
In my mind.. I wondered how much aggravation that that saw had cost him.
Saw I'd say was the last saw for me ever? .. One thing..
Saw I'd say was ever the saw that I'm so 'effin glad I got rid of? Another thing entirely!!
camel2019
ArboristSite Guru
Probably the big pioneer 620’s and idk why.
Close second would be Stihl 08s
Close second would be Stihl 08s
Stihl MS 260
My 372xp- ported of course
At my age I'd probably keep my Husqvarna 353.
372XPW Ported with 75cc top end
nice- forgot mines a xpw too, just don't need the heat very often around here
EchoShindaiwaMakitaDolmar
ArboristSite Operative
A 150cc, truly fuel injected, 16lb, modern pro saw from Dolkita or Echo, in McCulloch yellow. It would of course handle like a 50cc pro saw.
Husky77
ArboristSite Operative
266xp, 254xp and now 550xpg, fantastic light saw that does all I ask of her. The old you get the more you appreciate lightness & durability and of course easy starting. I like the old saws but they make us oldies suffer 
Surprisingly I only read one vote for the Husky 262xp. Maybe because they didn't sell as many as the 266se? Anyway, I bought my 262 new in 1994, replacing some similar sized Jred whose model I don't recall, but it was gutless. I have cut with that 262 every year since and the only thing I've done to it was replace the piston because I was an idiot and buried the muffler in a shaving pile while cutting 30" sugar maple rounds. In each of the intervening years, that saw cut more than 10 cords of wood and supplied the heat for our house. Reliable, easy to work on, light, and perfect for the size trees in our area (22" and under).
372xpg. CJ
With the 7-10 you continue to enjoy the power and the sound for hours after putting the saw away...
TooTall120
New Member
My Dolmar 120si, bought new in 1993
dave ensign
Trapshooter
49sp!
I agree I like my 700 with a 28” bar
jackdaripper
ArboristSite Lurker
044 for the win. I sold mine and bought a new old stock one. Now I don't want to run it, so I'm saving up for another one to actually use haha.
