$1000 chain saw used twice a year for twenty minutes for the next ten years is how much an hour for use? $100 chain saw with the same use is how much a usage.
You high dollar or nothing guys often **** right in your hat. You also justify to a homeowner. Not pro's, not heavy users, homeowner that will barely touch that saw.
I'll say average homeowner doesn't run one for ten hours in ten years.
You're going to look pretty limited in thought process when you question my easy math numbers. Insert 249.47 if that's what it takes to awaken you.
Someone that only uses a chain saw ten hours in ten years don't need no stinking chainsaw. They would be better served to just get someone else to come by with their 20 or 25 year old Stihl chainsaw when they need something cut.
To me buying a tool is like picking a wife. Don't be fooled by the cheap flashy models of either or you are destined to be very disappointed in the long run. Weather you only cut up small limbs every now and again or cut logs for a living when you need it you need it to run and cut.
I've bought two stihl chain saws in my life,........... still have one of them as I traded in the larger 051 on the 044 I still have now. In the time before I bought my first Stihl and up until I finally got smart enough to know there is a difference.
I also owned 2 craftmans which were the biggest piles of **** I ever owned. The only reason I got the second one was because the first one was so much a problem that they finally took it back and sold me a newer larger model at a discount. That one wasn't much better and after messing with it more than cutting with it I finally threw it in the trash.
I had several McCulloch's. You needed 2 or 3 of them if you wanted to get any work done because on any given day only one out of the three was going to start.
Poulan saws were the reason I bought my first Stihl. When I finally gave up on those McCullocks I went in to the place I was buying from at the time and traded in all three of the yellow saws for a poulan 245 I think it was and the guy spoke so highly of that saw I ended up buying a second one at a real good discount. Good thing to because one or the other was in the shop all the time and if I ever wanted to get any work done I bought another one that was supposed to be their professional model and although it did start and run the oiling system never worked like it should and chains and bars were always wearing out. The sad part was it didn't have a manual oiler so you could pump a little extra on the chain every now and then to keep the chain from jumping off the bar.
I had a couple Homelite saws I bought off a guy that was going out of business and they were pretty good saws. They had both manual and a automatic oiling systems and would start most of the time but were slow cutting even with brand new bar and chains on them.
After I got fed up with that poulan **** I went buy another saw place and this guy had several different brands for sale and he had just took on Stihl saws and I left there with a brand new 051. I wanted to try a bow saw so the guy told me if I would try and help him sell a few saws that he would throw in a new bow and chain setup. I told him well hell yeah I would but if this thing turned out like the other **** I had been buying he would have to agree to take the saw back and give me my money back which he also agreed to.
I went back that afternoon to pick up the saw and I bought a couple extra chains for the bow and the bar setup, some bar oil and also some stihl engine oil and a box of saw files. He put the saw in the back of my truck and I left headed for the log pile.
I had a job that was clearing about 5 ac of pine trees that were too small for logs so I called a buddy of mine that was in the pulp wood hauling business and worked out a deal with him to take the wood to the wood yard. I had knocked down about an ac of trees and had them laying on the ground ready to be cut up and hauled off.
When I got there Herman had 3 guys cutting wood up in lengths with those great big ol pouland gear drive saws the pulp wood guys all used. As I pulled up Herman came over to the truck to see what I had bought back this time and as he looked in the back of the truck he said, Yuck!! you bought one of those pumpkin saws and laughed. The laughing didn't last long after I dragged that pumpkin out of the truck and with one pull it came to life and soon after I hit the log pile all three of the guys that were cutting were standing there looking in disbelief. That saw was throwing chips 20' in the air and zipping through that pine like it was hot butter.
I was in saw heaven cause as soon as that saw started up I knew I had a real saw in my hands and after only about 30 minutes of cutting I had cut more wood with this saw than I had cut with all that other bunch of junk the whole time I had them. It finally ran out of gas and as I was walking back to the truck for a fill up and service no body said a word. Finally Herman said, well I guess this means you won't be getting on of those new pouland gear drive saws after all. I just had this big smile on my face and said, NO, probably not.
After 15 years of sawing wood pretty much every day I decided to trade it in for something a little lighter and got almost as much as I paid for it on a trade for this newer 044. The only thing I ever had to fix on either of those two saws was a bar and a handle I had to replace on the 051 when I accidentialy ran over it with a crawler loader one time when a helper left it laying next to a pile of brush he was working around.
An electric saw would maybe be perfect for the op depending on what he trying to do and how often. The only thing you have to worry about is getting power to where you are cutting and or maybe tripping over the cord or cutting it in half and getting electrocuted but other than that, what's the worst that can happen?
