We must be neighbors, practically. No surprise you need a saw right now after all the wind lately!
I bought the $260 Husky at Family Farm & Home on Plainfield, where they also service them, a few months ago. They matched Lowe's price for me.
I'm a backyard/homeowner-use type as well.
I had an oak with a 16" diameter base fall over. Though the saw isn't the most powerful one around, it made short work of limbing and cutting the tree to 16" lengths.
Use only alcohol free fuel (you can get it at the Mobil station at 10 Mile and Algoma), and buy the good chain/bar oil, not the recycled stuff.
PM me if you want to talk more.
Tony
(Near the high school)
