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There must be a d i l d o attached to the end of 'em.

LOL

Husqvarna makes vibrating butt plugs?

Those are reciprocating saws you're thinking of.

Well, I have a personal Stihl 029, 036, 044 and 660. And I maintain a work fleet of 6x 362C's (not a big fan), 3x 440's, 4x 460's, and my current work felling saw is a 500ir with a bunch of West Coast Saw custom mods. In the past I've also run 034, 038mag, 056 an 090 and an 090G. Bar lengths from 20-36". I'm a wildland firefighter and C Faller/FAL1 so I run a saw quite a bit in rough conditions and rough country, often felling large and complex hazard trees. We do lots of fuels reduction work when not on fires so I would say conservatively I'm running a saw around 75-100 days a year. I have also done hazard tree felling professionally outside of agency employment. About the only folks that cut more than me are pro fallers employed in logging industry and arborists but that's a different game. You could say I'm a Stihl fan.
The pro grade Husky saws are fine too, just a different feel. The 500i with the west coast mods is a beast in a lightweight package and quickly becoming my favorite, only around 20 tanks through it so far so we'll see how it holds up over time. The only thing I have noticed so far is it heats up quickly when doing a lot of brushing where the saw isn't under much of a load, noticeably quicker than carbureted saws. I want to add a high flow air filter and see if that helps it cool more efficiently.
All this to say, there is no other brand of saw I would choose for professional work where lives depend on performance. They are tools, they require maintenance and upkeep. If the company needs to scale with their current volume of sales then I understand that, while I feel for the folks that have been laid off. The battery powered Stihl's are more impressive than I expected them to be. They have no place in my work and while I am generally against anything electric especially for environmental propaganda reasoning, our recreation folks have a couple of them for campground maintenance and they work well in that regard.

Oh Goody!!!!!

Finally a chainsaw thread!!!!

I got tired of the cheap saws
I went and purchased what I thought was a good saw a Poulan wild cat I burned it up in a couple months
Then I purchased a Husky High end Electric saw and burned it up on my very first soft wood China berry live tree.

So I did some home work and picked up a Stihl MS311 Rancher Grade saw and I love it.
Then I needed a small trim saw so I went back the my Stihl dealer and picked up an MS 194T Top handle Pro Grade saw.

Once I figured the learning curve on operating them they have been flawless saws.

I use the MS 194T the most because of how light it is and for it's size how big of a beast it is with the 14" Bar on it.

When I have stuff over about 10"--12" diameter I get the MS311 out and I have (2) Bars for it an 18" and a 25" it is a real beast for me and does the cutting fast for me.

Maybe I screwed up buying Stihl but unless things change I will never buy anything but Stihl's from now on if I need another saw but With what I have I do not think that I will ever need more than I have already.

I did pick up a Ryobi hand trimmer but I do not consider that a chainsaw with an 8" Bar it is a garden trimmer for very small stuff.

When I was falling steady, most if not all of my falling partners ran Stihl saws, 066 magnums usually, I burned a couple of them out, great saw. I always seemed to go back to Husqvarna's, I don't ever remember burning one of them up, 288, always started in the winter, great saw, otherwise it was/is a 394-395.

I currently am running as a backup saw...461 Stihl, but it never gets used because I have a 395 that I use almost everyday, it has cut around 7-800 cords of wood since I bought it new, a bad azz saw. Husqvarna parts interchangeability is better than Stihl imo.

Says on the tag my 395 was made in Brazil lol

Burning up (wearing out) in a year... Loggers and mill folk comments.

I believe you... but that seem really odd... Most of 2022... both stores I use were pretty much bare shelf on anything Pro... or ever strong Homeowner.

I have stihls and two dewalts. Gas better for serious sawing. Battery lot more convenient for those occasional small jobs. In defense of their 30% goal, I suspect that is in line with market. Many consumers buying a saw won't be cutting a lot and just want something convenient instead of frustration of trying to start one that has been sitting for two years with old gas.

A friend bought me a husky 395xp last year for Christmas. Real friends are so much better than FB friends. The saw's name is Donald, cause he's big and orange and powerful. What does any of this have to do with stihl laying off a bunch of people? Pretty much nuttin.

Bidenomics @ work

Happened before, at a college, in front of people

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/northwestern-university-p_n_830423

A 24 hour campfire requires a lot of firewood.

Fantastic!

And zero reading.

RIF

There is a 288 Frankensaw for sale locally.
Over 100cc as configured, can test run.

Just can't justify it, I need another saw like....and when I buy one it needs to be
a nice light 50cc or less. But.....that 288/100 sounds fun!