Mine’s a Stihl that I bought off FBM or CL, I don’t recall. It was running when I bought it, but I suspect that even though I ran it out of fuel and have only used ethanol free fuel in it, the carb is crudded up just from lack of use.
I really need to get it sorted before hurricane season starts. -D > On Mar 2, 2023, at 8:51 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > One of the guys in the snowmobile club fought a Poulan Pro for years. It'd > run sometimes but it had no balls. They're garbage commodity saws. > > I've got a Husky 445 which is the top of their homeowner saws. I've been > thinking about upgrading to a 450 which is the bottom of the pro line but as > you step into pro saws the weight increases quickly. > > I like that my 445 has secondary air injection which means no smoke when it's > running. I've had it for 15-16 years now. I did finally upgrade to a > semi-chisel chain instead of a safety chain. It cuts a lot faster... > > -Curt > > On Wednesday, March 1, 2023 at 10:51:22 PM EST, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > > > > The one I have is a poulon pro or whatever they are called from Lowes. > It was not the bottom model but the next step up I believe. It ran and > cut pretty good for a while, but last year when I needed it I could not > get the thing to start. > > On 3/1/2023 9:48 PM, Jim Cathey wrote: >> My house came with a Wards or Sears saw, probably made by Jonsered. >> I fought it for a couple of years, it was basically scared of wood. You >> could >> get it started, rev it all you wanted, but show it a log and it would die >> before >> cutting one chip. Voodoo mystery BS for sure. You could go through all the >> same motions with your back to the log and the saw roared just fine. Same >> hold, same pitch/roll/yaw, etc. Pivot carefully to the wood, changing >> nothing >> about the position of the saw, and plopppp. >> >> Maddening. Once in awhile it would cut, but often not. >> >> I drove off and bought the Stihl 036, one down from their top model and kind >> of expensive at a time when I could ill afford it, and never looked back. >> It's >> an absolute beast, and with a fresh chain (and sometimes bar, 'cause once >> you tweak one it's never the same again) it'll chew through logs at a rate >> that >> is hard to believe. >> >> -- Jim >> > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
