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  1. woodworkingboy

    Fundamental reasons pro chainsaws are better than less expensive saws?

    It changes with which model as well. I would say that the vast majority of all saws are pretty easy to work on if you are familiar with them. The Husky clamshell designs where the crankcase and cylinder are integrated, can really be a bitch, time consuming even if you know them.
  2. woodworkingboy

    Fundamental reasons pro chainsaws are better than less expensive saws?

    No doubt. Still I find it odd though, to put one weak link in what otherwise appears to be a fairly decent product. A minor thing to fix, but they get you for the cost of the part, and to have you buy a whole new oil pump set just to get the gear is pure exploitation.
  3. woodworkingboy

    Fundamental reasons pro chainsaws are better than less expensive saws?

    Some cheap saws have that plastic worm gear around the drive shaft that propels the oil pump. The threads don't last. They can use a stronger made gear but they don't. Lucky if you can buy just the gear, but sometimes you have to buy the oil pump as well because it's a set. Quite a rip off...
  4. woodworkingboy

    Fundamental reasons pro chainsaws are better than less expensive saws?

    Rental yards do that here. Nice to know someone that works at a rental yard. No bargain getting some of them though, dull like trying to write something with the eraser end of a pencil.
  5. woodworkingboy

    Fundamental reasons pro chainsaws are better than less expensive saws?

    I work on saws. Some of the cheaper ones like Ryobi are decent. Even with reasonable durability though, they are lacking in power. Some of the very cheap ones that I recognize, I explain that their production has a very poor basic premise about wanting to make anything of quality, little to be...
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