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Posted by on October 22, 2006, 1:18 pm
wrote:
>On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:39:23 -0400, "Charlie Bress"
>
>>My son is planning to get a chainsaw. He wants gas powered. He and
the D-I-L
>>are getting serious about a house with a lightly wooded lot. Since
she works
>>at good old Home Depot she can get an employee discount. (don't
bother
>>bashing HD, she knows, but a buck is a buck).
>>
>>He is looking at the HD products. There is Echo, Poulan and
Homelite. I told
>>him to look at Stihl. It is too many $$ for a them for home use.
>>
>>How good is the Echo? It is priced higher than the other two. Is it
worth
>>the difference? Are the other too just to cheap?
>>
>>Opinions are solicited. Owner/user opinions will be worth more than
the off
>>the cuff complaints and bitches that abound on this NG.
>>
>>Charlie
>>
>
>
>I had a Poulan for 30 years but it finally wore out a couple months
>ago. It was just a little one with a 14" blade and I cut down a lot
>of large trees with it. When I went to look for a replacement I
>didn't like the balance of the new Poulans. The only one that had
>decent balance was the ECHO. I believe it's a CS-130, or whatever it
>is Home Depot sells for around $200. I used it to cut down one tree.
>The chain jumped off the bar 3 times and the change tangs that run in
>the bar got damaged and I had to file them to keep them from sticking
>in the bar. In the 30 years I had the Poulan the chain only came off
>maybe twice. In the 4 hours I used the Echo it came off the three
>times. In looking at the bar and chain on the ECHO they are clearly
>lighter duty items then on my old Poulan, practically like a cheap
>toy. The bar is thin and the chain is also very thin. I thought the
>ECHO was a good saw based on looking at what I could on the Internet
>before I bought it but I'm not at all impressed. Plus the automatic
>oiler has already stopped working and there is no manual oiler so
I'll
>have to pull it apart to see what's wrong with it and probably
already
>need to buy a new bar and chain. It's a piece of crap.
Sorry for all your trouble. Maybe you just got a lemon Echo or the
chain saw was too small for your job. We have used Echos for 18 years
to prune every one of our coffee trees every year. Perhaps coffee
trees are softer wood or have a smaller diameter, but Echo works well
for us.
I have no connection to Echo, promise.
aloha,
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