Aaron":3te4g3bm said:
Nothing wrong with a Jonsered. Most lumberjacks in Canada use a Husqvarna, which is identical to the Jonsered. Stihls are usually reserved for limbing and small jobs. Any saw works when you only cutting a few trees a week with it. Cut a few thousand cords each year and Husky's rise to the top.
Have the emission lockouts taken out after you buy it. Carb performance will be much better.
The hardest thing on a saw is poor gas with a lot of water in it. We mix up gas in small amounts so that it gets replaced often.
Aaron I agree.
Funny how someone asks about a new XXXX and is it any good and sudenly there are a whole bunch of folks that (tractors as an example) are colour blind. If it is not green it is schitte! If it is not red it will never be on my ground! If it is not blue then you are taking a chance. And so on.
I left the military in 1997 and stayed out for a few years before re-upping to get back in the game. For one full year I worked for a company called Focus Surveys. My job was working in the mountains - cutting seismic lines.
I used three chainsaws - and old Husky 6200 with a 99 cc motor and a 4 foot bar, a Husky 257 (I think) with a smaller motor and a 32 inch bar and a Jonsered that was given to me brand new - do not remember the model number but it was a little one - the bar was about 28 inches long.
I have heard a lot of people talk about the saw of choice. I used all of mine - rain, sleet, snow, minus 40 plus and in hot weather. Sometimes standing on muskeg, sometimes standing in creeks and sometimes up to my butt (literally) in snow for hours on end. None of them let me down. And I worked daily in the bush - cutting anything from giants to willows and following a laser. I lived outside of Fairview and spent up to 75 days at a time in the bush, living in camps.
I also used the company saws once in a while. They were usually crap when I got them. But I worked on them and tuned them and they all worked fine once I got them going. They were Huskys, Poulans, Stihls and even a couple of funny blue coloured ones - do not remember their name. Old and beat up with no chain brakes on them. But I got them working well.
Generally speaking it is the operator that is the problem.
Buy a saw and look after it I will give the nod to any Husky, any Jonsered, any Stihl and even Poulan.
Far as I am concerned it is personal preferential choice and anyone who is ready to run one down has never spent days on end bent over a saw.
So - pick your poison and look after it. Mix the fuel right and lube the saw on a regular basis. Keep the chain tight and sharp. They pretty much all work well.
And wear the chainsaw pants - saved my leg one day - I never knew how fast it could happen, and I learned real quick that the pants work like a charm!
These companies did not get to be as big as they are today by selling saws that do not work or do not cut - most folks seem to forget that.
Best to all
Bez
