sawinredneck
Treehouser
It seems to be getting worse every year, people getting dumber, and tighter!
I had an old Husky show up last summer, wouldn't start, I played with this and that, then pulled the muffler, rings were melted into the piston! It's hard to do a compression test by feel on a 30ish cc saw!!
Two weeks ago a quasi regular showed up again, Craftsman 38cc, 14", fancy auto bar chain adjust, and strato charged. He couldn't get it to run, I spent 20min adjusting the carb, these cheap saws are uber finicky! It ran decent enough, and he went home happy. A week latter, it's back. I spent the better part of a day trying to adjust the damn carb, just chased my tail! I can get it to start, but it wont run! I spray carb cleaner anywhere near the damn thing it thinks it's a rocket! But the owner thinks I need to fix it? Yeah, he priced a new one at Sears for $179 for Christ sake! What are they thinking trying to rip him off like that?
He showed back up today, brought three saws, this was, well, I'm at a loss for words! I'll take pics tomorrow! One is a Homelite Super 2, that is probably about as old as I am (that's the good one, mind you!), a Poulan, green, 36cc, with the old school toggle switch, and most of the rear handle broken off! The final winner is another Polaun, yellow, seems to be a newer 38cc? with the fancy side chain adjustment that looks like it's been left at the bottom of a grease pit for a few months.
Is this what it's come to? I remember the old mantra that people that "didn't do tree work" would go to Walmart and buy a chainsaw, use it once or twice, then set it in the garage and let it rot. Then the next time they needed to use it, and it wouldn't run, from abuse, they would just go buy another one and move on! When did it come to people expecting these things to run forever? And how the Hell did I become the savior of this crap?
i don't mind helping someone out, and maybe I'm just too damn nice, but this is just getting stupid!
I had an old Husky show up last summer, wouldn't start, I played with this and that, then pulled the muffler, rings were melted into the piston! It's hard to do a compression test by feel on a 30ish cc saw!!
Two weeks ago a quasi regular showed up again, Craftsman 38cc, 14", fancy auto bar chain adjust, and strato charged. He couldn't get it to run, I spent 20min adjusting the carb, these cheap saws are uber finicky! It ran decent enough, and he went home happy. A week latter, it's back. I spent the better part of a day trying to adjust the damn carb, just chased my tail! I can get it to start, but it wont run! I spray carb cleaner anywhere near the damn thing it thinks it's a rocket! But the owner thinks I need to fix it? Yeah, he priced a new one at Sears for $179 for Christ sake! What are they thinking trying to rip him off like that?
He showed back up today, brought three saws, this was, well, I'm at a loss for words! I'll take pics tomorrow! One is a Homelite Super 2, that is probably about as old as I am (that's the good one, mind you!), a Poulan, green, 36cc, with the old school toggle switch, and most of the rear handle broken off! The final winner is another Polaun, yellow, seems to be a newer 38cc? with the fancy side chain adjustment that looks like it's been left at the bottom of a grease pit for a few months.
Is this what it's come to? I remember the old mantra that people that "didn't do tree work" would go to Walmart and buy a chainsaw, use it once or twice, then set it in the garage and let it rot. Then the next time they needed to use it, and it wouldn't run, from abuse, they would just go buy another one and move on! When did it come to people expecting these things to run forever? And how the Hell did I become the savior of this crap?
i don't mind helping someone out, and maybe I'm just too damn nice, but this is just getting stupid!