lurking
I think we all lurked before signing up, some longer than others obviously.
I heard about this site around late '01 early '02 from a guy on gunbroker who did chainsaw reviews. I remember he said he bought them, ran them for X number of hours, then did a complete teardown. I never saw any of his reviews or know for whom he did them, but I remember him always saying whenever chainsaws came up that Stihl had much better marketing strategies than they did products. He, on one occasion, cited this site as an example of 'supposed experts swallowing a marketing ploy'. As this ran contrary to my beliefs I visited here often to hear what I wanted to hear, and that was that Stihl made the best saws on the market, and always had. I finally decided to sign up here in the first part of 04 due to gunbroker forums being overrun by loudmouth fools that I could no longer stand to read.
At that time I was also beginning to take a break from guns, and political issues surrounding them, and it was great to come home after a long days climbing trees and talk with men who knew exactly what I had been doing all day, because they were doing it too.
anyhow, I didn't mean to hijack the thread. :taped:
Welcome to the site.
-Ralph
