Life in the temperate zone...

He told me he does some on Saturdays. My guess is that he loves the work but doesn't want hundreds of them. That would kind of take the love out of tinkering.
 
FedEx guy came with the 201 followed shortly by the UPS guy with the 7910 just as I finished clearing a path through the snow for them to reach the porch.

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My baby is back with her Cancer of Mediocrity cured... :LOL:

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Poleman carb, XD filter, modded oil pump, ported and polished, tachometer, full wrap bar (not shown) and all shiny orange and black... :D

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Gotta love the spike bumper on the 7910.. twin dogs are quite the space age looking touch... :)

Special thanks to my wife for not strangling me in my sleep!
 
No, no, no.... that's what they make Poulan saws for. Too much of it to clean off the saw, just keep using it until it burns up... it's going to, anyway. ;)
 
JeffGu said:
FedEx guy came with the 201 followed shortly by the UPS guy with the 7910 just as I finished clearing a path through the snow for them to reach the porch.

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My baby is back with her Cancer of Mediocrity cured... :LOL:

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Poleman carb, XD filter, modded oil pump, ported and polished, tachometer, full wrap bar (not shown) and all shiny orange and black... :D

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Gotta love the spike bumper on the 7910.. twin dogs are quite the space age looking touch... :)

Special thanks to my wife for not strangling me in my sleep!
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Looks like the 7910 should have wheels.
 
Decided to go with a 24" Sugimara Light & Tough bar, and a 32" Total Super bar for the Dolmar. Hope to have the bars & chains here in a couple or days.
 
Makes it a lot easier to tune the saw and see what it's really doing. But, it also tells you how many hours are on the saw. Neither one is essential information, but can be useful.
 
I'm not terribly brand loyal about too many things. I usually find the goofy rants about chainsaw brands to be a little out of sync with reality, sometimes. All of these major companies making professional grade saws seem to be quite capable of manufacturing a great product... and the occasional lemon or bad idea thrown in there. A few brands manage to float to the top, a few to the bottom, of the working man's favorites list. When I get my hands on these saws, they seem to be damn close to each other on build quality, price, performance and reliability... as long as we're comparing apples to apples. Here's four brands/models of 50cc, 60cc and 80cc class professional level saws... they come up pretty close on paper, too. Echo doesn't list HP ratings on their site, and prices were just MSRP listed price or what I could find quickly online. Obviously, that can vary quite a bit, but at least the prices shown should be in the ballpark of what you can expect to pay.

My point of this little comparison is only to show that on paper, they're fairly evenly matched. You can argue personal preferences all day, I certainly have mine, but when you consider that any brand of saw is subject to a bad one slipping past the quality control folks, these saws are all on a par with each other in many regards. Some will hold up better in the hands of people who beat the crap out of their stuff, others will perform better on a windy day or the second Tuesday of each week... but of these saws that I have personally used or owned, I found them all to be great saws. I liked some better than others, but it was almost nitpicking... if you dropped any of these saws off on my front porch, I'd kiss you full on the lips and add you to my friends list on Facebook.

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JeffGu said:
I'm not terribly brand loyal about too many things. I usually find the goofy rants about chainsaw brands to be a little out of sync with reality, sometimes. All of these major companies making professional grade saws seem to be quite capable of manufacturing a great product... and the occasional lemon or bad idea thrown in there. A few brands manage to float to the top, a few to the bottom, of the working man's favorites list. When I get my hands on these saws, they seem to be damn close to each other on build quality, price, performance and reliability... as long as we're comparing apples to apples. Here's four brands/models of 50cc, 60cc and 80cc class professional level saws... they come up pretty close on paper, too. Echo doesn't list HP ratings on their site, and prices were just MSRP listed price or what I could find quickly online. Obviously, that can vary quite a bit, but at least the prices shown should be in the ballpark of what you can expect to pay.

My point of this little comparison is only to show that on paper, they're fairly evenly matched. You can argue personal preferences all day, I certainly have mine, but when you consider that any brand of saw is subject to a bad one slipping past the quality control folks, these saws are all on a par with each other in many regards. Some will hold up better in the hands of people who beat the crap out of their stuff, others will perform better on a windy day or the second Tuesday of each week... but of these saws that I have personally used or owned, I found them all to be great saws. I liked some better than others, but it was almost nitpicking... if you dropped any of these saws off on my front porch, I'd kiss you full on the lips and add you to my friends list on Facebook.

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Add them to your friends list on Facebook Jeff? That's gettin pretty serious.
 
JeffGu said:
the second Tuesday of each week..
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I don't know about you fellers in Ner-brass-ker, but here on the east coast we only have ONE Tuesday every week.

JeffGu said:
if you dropped any of these saws off on my front porch, I'd kiss you full on the lips
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Remind me to NEVER EVER leave a saw sitting on Gu's porch. I've seen his picture, and it really didn't do much for me.

Aside from those 2 issues, your point is quite valid. I'm strongly brand loyal, but I'm always amazed at the guys who will go to fists to "prove" their Chevy is better than his Ford. There is a reason they each sold 500,000 pickups last year, and that is they're both pretty similar.
 
Jeff said:
...here on the east coast we only have ONE Tuesday every week...
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Well, you east coast guys can't handle two. It's all for the best. However, I do remember taking a straight truck loaded with specialty freight (some kind of medical equipment) out east back around '87 and I took a friend along who wanted to stop in Connecticut and do some drinkin'... only bar we spotted off the highway was a strip joint, and I gotta tell ya'... you got some really lax laws out there for strip joints. Very strict "no touchy girls" laws, but opening beer bottles with... well, let's just say that stuff wouldn't fly around here.
 
Bars and chains for the Dolmar came today... got the 24-inch Sugihara mounted up, and will try it out before mounting the 32-inch Total Super bar. Snow stopped long enough to snap a couple of pictures, but more is on the way for tonight.

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:D
 
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