The reason this is good fun all around is that it's kind of impossible to take it too seriously, and nobody has any brand image to defend. The more I think about it, the more I think this is a brilliant idea. Like the beater classes in stock cars or whatever. Plus, you can really push things to the limit and not worry about blowing up a $700 saw. In fact, the day won't be complete without a saw or two giving up the ghost.
We folks in the NYCSM are going to do something like this ourselves, and we're going to have two classes. Gonna call them the "Kmart" class and the "Macy's" class. Both classes are capped at 45cc to get some distance from the 50cc class which has a lot of saws that slide in at 49cc. Silly and outrageous mods are encouraged. Going to use 15" wood and make them little saws work their butts off.
Looks like this:
Kmart- This is the Poulan/Wildthing based class. Also open to the Ryobi saws and such. This class must have a plastic crankcase and run 3/8 LP chain. Was considering a price limit, but that would exclude 136/141 Huskys and the lower priced Stihls like the 021 and such.
Macy's- Plastic or metal crankcase and can run any chain. Early 028's, 242's, 346OE. Reason for this class is that we will be having too much fun to stop and it will be interesting to compare the cheap stuff to the better saws in the same wood on the same day.
We also thought of a "Woolworth" class for older small saws that would be reserved for horizontal cylinders only, but hardly anyone has them, so we bagged that idea for now.
