For any arbitrary reason. Doesn't have to be objectively the best. Might be some antique you wouldn't think of doing real work with, but it looks cool.
Mine's my echo 2511t. I love that little saw. It was bought as a toy I basically had to invent reasons to purchase. Told myself I could use it for climbing, even though the few times a year I climb, my cs400 would have been sufficient, Told myself it could be a truck saw, even though I've spent 30 years in the field without a chainsaw...
I use that thing *all the time*. A couple of the jobs I've been working on lately would be torture without a chainsaw. Starts easily, cuts great for it's size, weighs almost nothing, and has a compact shape. I can hang it from my pistol belt, have 375ml liquor bottles filled with fuel and bar oil in each hip pocket, and can go anywhere. Yesterday I was clearing vines for stakeout, dropping small trees, flattening stumps to make a good place for setting benchmarks for the contractor, and making tall stakes out of branches. I'll soon be using it to semi-freehand rip some boards for horse stalls, and I think it'll work fine. It's my Swiss Army knife saw. Doesn't necessarily do anything best cause of it's size, but it's size allows to be be used for almost anything. One of my best forestry purchases I've made.
Mine's my echo 2511t. I love that little saw. It was bought as a toy I basically had to invent reasons to purchase. Told myself I could use it for climbing, even though the few times a year I climb, my cs400 would have been sufficient, Told myself it could be a truck saw, even though I've spent 30 years in the field without a chainsaw...
I use that thing *all the time*. A couple of the jobs I've been working on lately would be torture without a chainsaw. Starts easily, cuts great for it's size, weighs almost nothing, and has a compact shape. I can hang it from my pistol belt, have 375ml liquor bottles filled with fuel and bar oil in each hip pocket, and can go anywhere. Yesterday I was clearing vines for stakeout, dropping small trees, flattening stumps to make a good place for setting benchmarks for the contractor, and making tall stakes out of branches. I'll soon be using it to semi-freehand rip some boards for horse stalls, and I think it'll work fine. It's my Swiss Army knife saw. Doesn't necessarily do anything best cause of it's size, but it's size allows to be be used for almost anything. One of my best forestry purchases I've made.
(tough times). I want another though.
