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My sister asked tonight. Hahahahahaha..... Uh, no. I learned that lesson long time ago..

I keep a Poulan Wild Thing as a loaner. If an 18" bar will meet the light duty needs of the user, it is a serviceable chainsaw. I usually lend it along with a couple of nylon wedges and an Estwing Camper's axe.

What's the backstory? My chainsaws don't get used by anyone else if avoidable. Sometimes an employee. I like to cut wood and often end up giving some away each fall.

I have been doing pretty well loaning saws, especially my concrete saw. You take it without a blade, and it comes back with one on it.....or buy your own.

I have a little beater husky 141? Anyways its the loaner or god forbid my other two saws took a crap saw. No way anybody is touching one of my good pro saws.

Not much of a story. I'm on my third Stihl. The previous two were destroyed by friends. I love my sister but I learned my lesson. I will gladly run it for her but she isnt getting it.

A wise man.

I'm on my second saw since I bought my house. These are lightly used for yard maintenance, not for commercial firewood production or anything like that. The first one was a MacCoulough. I ran that little saw for 15 years. It never worked real good, but was okay for what I did with it. It finally quit running, and I just couldn't see putting any money into it. I bought a reconditioned Poulan with an 18 inch bar from Sears and I have to say I've been pretty happy with it. Plenty of power for the light work I do with it, and it runs pretty good. I can see it is obviously not designed for the rigors of heavy work, but for occasional use around the yard, it works just fine. If I can get 15 years out of this one, I'll be happy with that.

My son borrowed my saw months ago................

No. My saw was built back in the '60s and isn't safe by today's standards. Its a Homelite made back when Homelite made decent saws. It starts when I pull the cord and cuts what I need it to cut. No, you can't borrow it because its a safety hazard. I wouldn't want to be responsible for you cutting yourself with my saw.

One of my coworkers asked to borrow my midrange Stihl yesterday for his firewood cutting season......he didn't like the look he got back instead! LOL

Loaned my saw to a friend at work in the late 90's for some small tree's around his house. Gave him my safety equipment and a refresher on running one. He came in Monday and said he was taking me to lunch. Took me to my saw shop and ordered me a new one. He got cocky and stepped up to large pines and dropped one on the saw. He made good on the saw which I appreciated.

A few months later, a colleague at work calls and asks to borrow saw. Initially said yes, then told him I'd had a bad experience and wouldn't be loaning it out anymore. Heard a few weeks later from the person he ended up borrowing one from that he used it to dig a stump out and it was beat and abused.

No more loaning saws out for me. If you need the help and it's within my abilities and my time abilities, I'll help. Otherwise you need to buy your own, rent or find someone else to help.

My saws are sharpened, cleaned, gassed and oiled up.........but they are "broken"!

Got a college educated co-worker that wanted to put in an underground electric fence for his wife's mutt. Too cheap to rent a ditch wizard or other such trenching tool and too lazy to use a mattock, he wanted to borrow my chain saw to use it to 'slice' the dirt for the wires. Thinking he wanted it for yard clean up, I unknowingly loaned him a pretty decent Poulan that mom found at yard a few years back.

He destroyed it. I eventually got a new Poulan out of the deal, but had to shame him into making it good.

Ah, the old Poulan ditch witch, famed in song and story.

Knowing the soil content of this here area is mostly rock and clay, I bet he beat the ever living crap out of your poor saw.

I would kick wholesale ass if I loaned out a saw and seen it used like that.

Tell me your co-worker wasn't an engineer....

Almost did come to blows over it. Wound up telling his wife what a cheap, dumbss he was and she finally signed a check.

He was /is a young black programmer, and used the race card on me early on. Said I was trying to take advantage of a 'young brother' and nothing was wrong with the saw.

Yeah other than the fact that the chain was missing and it was locked up, it was in great shape.

You guys have done a real good job reinforcing my belief in not loaning anything.Saws,guns,tools, money and sure wish I would have done a one way loan of the gal I married before I did. Life does come with aw sheeit lessons gauranteed if you get to liberal and make dumb decissions. Magnum Man

Most of the people I know have more saws than I do, which is good, because I have no intention of loaning mine out.



CrowRifle-never heard of the chainsaw/trenching method before . Thanks for the education.

My standard answer is No.
I am suprised at how many people get mad that I told them no, like they are entitled to it.
I use to loan an older saw I had but after it would come back with a dull chain, broken, raw gas in the tank (2 cycles need oil mix) or any number of other issues, I said enough is enough.

Have an ancient 14" Wen electric, nobody wants to borrow it.

Does well for light branch trimming around the yard though.