I can make that unanimous, I had one of their model 3400 18" saws. Owned it for 3 weeks before it ended up resting peacefully at the bottom of the "Spanish Fork" river where we went to cut wood. I now own a 24" Stihl and I love it. At least that is I loved it the last time I used it. Since moving to the Desert I don't cut much firewood any more and come to think of it I love that to.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Howell Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 6:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Chain saws again! Funny, I know a gent who also had a Poulan chainsaw and I had a Poulan leaf blower at one time and neither of us were impressed or pleased with our purchases. I damn near blew out my shoulder trying to start the blower. I finally gave it away to a shop when I got a new one. I figured they could use the spark plug or something, cause that was about the only thing worth anything on the unit. On Jan 12, 2008, at 7:55 PM, Jewel Blanch wrote: > I used to have a Black & Decker 12 inch electric chain saw that I > used for > firewood and a heck of a good job it did, too, but, everything has a > life, > and, eventually, it gave up the ghost and went to join other retired > tools > in the great workshop in the sky! > I have relied on my petrol-driven Pouland since, but I find it a > flipping > pest as when I put it down and leave it idling, it pops away quietly > until I > lift it to start cutting again, and then 9 times out of 10, it stops. > I have now bought off Trade Me, NZ's answer to EBay, a brand new > Painier 16 > inch bar electric chain saw. > It is made in China, but don't hold that against it. The clutch > cover is > held in place by a simple win-type of handle, and this round handle > has an > outer ring thing which you twist to tighten or loosen the chain. No > more > having to hunt for that pesky socket spanner and small screwdriver! > It looked as though it was capable of causing some real serious > damage, so > yesterday, after assembling it, I took it out to see just what it > could do. > I showed it a tree with a trunk diameter of around 24 inches. It > made very > light work of that joker. Admittedly, I didn't actually bring the tree > down, as I am a little chary of trees falling on me: ]funny that!]: > but I > cut away until the tree was very wobbly, and when I pushed it by > hand, it > made cracking noises. I figure that I would leave the next strong > wind to > complete the job of bringing it down. > > Jewel > > > Scott Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/JAWS/handyman/ Visit the archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ If you would like to join the JAWS Users List, then visit the following address for more information: http://www.jaws-users.com/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links -- BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS ------------------------------------------------------ Teach InfoWest Spam Trap if this mail (ID 150472595) is spam: Spam: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=150472595&m=f4ab4932b88b&c=s Not spam: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=150472595&m=f4ab4932b88b&c=n Forget vote: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=150472595&m=f4ab4932b88b&c=f ------------------------------------------------------ END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS
