[kpaul]

Your opinion on the best Chainsaw for the money?
Thanks

 

[bja105]

The only chainsaw I have used is my Stihl Farm Boss. I had to replace the main bearing last year, after abusing it for 5 years.
It starts easily, runs well, cuts big trees. It hasn't cut my leg off, yet. Give me time, though.
I use it at our farm to cut fire wood, make shooting lanes for deer stands.
I'm no lumberjack. I'm good at pinching the bar in the tree.

 

[HVAC2B]

stihl,is the only saw IMHO

 

[jpsmith1cm]

stihl,is the only saw IMHO

Ditto.

I only have a little Stihl, but I will put it against most larger saws. It is a serious cutting machine.

 

[mikesands]

Husqvarna,

 

[drk]

Husqvarna used to be the best but they have gone down hill with there mass production so they can sell to all the home centers. Stihl was almost as good then, but have clearly taken the lead in most power tools.

 

[4jime]

Stihl is the best I have seen...

 

[Rhinohead]

For what use? farm & home tool stihl. pro timber= husqy

 

[maxpower]

Yep. Stihl. Its only a 17 or 18 inch cut but it rips through any tree. I wouldn't be affraid to line it up against some of the bigger saws.

 

[Rhinohead]

is that max power from rhinoforum .net?

 

[rabram]

Stihl, grew up with Homelite's. Saw the the light wouldn't go back .

 

[mo-flo]

my family were in logging business,stihl is what they used.....i liked the log skidder when i helped for a little while.....kind of like driving a tank,but better....timberjack is what brands he had.

 

[RoBoTeq]

I have only really used chainsaws for residential rough in work and occasional yard work so maybe not the best source. Because of how abusive I am to chainsaws, I buy the least expensive and just run it into the ground. The only one I steer clear of is Poulan...pronounced "pull-en" cause that's what you gotta do to get um started and to keep em running.

 

[edward301]

Hate to say Homelite, I have tried many, use Stihl several times. As hard
as I am on chainsaws the cheapest is the way I go now. I am very hard
on them, use them at renthouses, our ranch, my home 2.5 acres.

I seem to get 4 to 5 years out of them, then they are just flat worn out.

My last one a Stihl, something in the engine broke, but it was a good
4 to 5 years.

 

[slapdash]

I used a Stihl MS 250 to clear a builing lot for a cabin, cut a ton of pine and maple. Always worked well.

 

[Catpower]

I think the best chain saw is one that someone else is operating

 

[coolerfixer]

In the fire dept I was in, Stihl was the one we wrote our spec for. Talk about abusing a tool! Sawing through any kind of roofing to ice coated wood to felling trees in wildland fires, those things stand up. Oh, we carried Farm Bosses by Stihl. Nothing else held up. All the loggers around here use Stihl as well.

 

[dec]

I have only really used chainsaws for residential rough in work and occasional yard work so maybe not the best source. .

Boy that brings back memories. I used to use a McCullach for residental rough in's. I used a 12"or 14" bar which probably wasn't all that smart being it dulled the chain a lot faster.

I carried 2-3 extra chains and had a 12 volt electric sharpener I could hook to the truck battery if I needed to sharpen a chain out in the field.

Boy that thing would run rings around a recip saw as far as cutting register holes and running up on the roof cutting jack holes.

Once they started using more partical board over plywood, I pretty much gave up on the chain saw being the glue in the partical board would dull chains fast. Funny how it would spark cutting through the glue.

Use to get some *****ing from contractors on the smoke and noise but two of us could rough in all the holes for everything in less then 10 minutes with 1 guy marking them and one guy on the chain saw

As far as McCulloch's I think they were a piece of junk but I still have it after 30 some years, ok so it hasn't been started in the last 20. OH ya and the last time I looked at it , some how it lost one of the caps for the oil or gas ..... don't remember which it was.

Ok so someone lost the cap I'm the boss so I won't take the blame for that, as many employees in here say

I guess I better make a note to look at that one of these days to see if I can find something to replace that cap ...... its pretty useless with out it.

If I were to ever get a chainsaw again ..... I would get a Stihl ......... REPUTATION and a good one

Oh and ROBO, thanks for bringing back the memories

 

[RoBoTeq]

Boy that brings back memories. I used to use a McCullach for residental rough in's. I used a 12"or 14" bar which probably wasn't all that smart being it dulled the chain a lot faster.

I carried 2-3 extra chains and had a 12 volt electric sharpener I could hook to the truck battery if I needed to sharpen a chain out in the field.

Boy that thing would run rings around a recip saw as far as cutting register holes and running up on the roof cutting jack holes.

Once they started using more partical board over plywood, I pretty much gave up on the chain saw being the glue in the partical board would dull chains fast. Funny how it would spark cutting through the glue.

Use to get some *****ing from contractors on the smoke and noise but two of us could rough in all the holes for everything in less then 10 minutes with 1 guy marking them and one guy on the chain saw

As far as McCulloch's I think they were a piece of junk but I still have it after 30 some years, ok so it hasn't been started in the last 20. OH ya and the last time I looked at it , some how it lost one of the caps for the oil or gas ..... don't remember which it was.

Ok so someone lost the cap I'm the boss so I won't take the blame for that, as many employees in here say

I guess I better make a note to look at that one of these days to see if I can find something to replace that cap ...... its pretty useless with out it.

If I were to ever get a chainsaw again ..... I would get a Stihl ......... REPUTATION and a good one

Oh and ROBO, thanks for bringing back the memories

My memories are exactly the same. Ahhhh, the good ole days.

 

[maxpower]

is that max power from rhinoforum .net?

you mean someone stole my screen name?