Yeah, I've thought about it. We have a good Dolmar/Makita dealer outside of town, and no decent Stihl or Husky dealers, so it should be an easy conversion, but it isn't.
One guy who I'm buddies with goes to trade shows, and gets the Stihl dealers to give him a good price on saws, which he brings home and sells to firewood hacks. Then, he goes to the local Stihl dealer, and has him order a couple Husky 390's (The dealer can order Husky, but doesn't stock or advertise that he does this). He trades a couple in ever year or so, and gets 2 new ones.
3/8 .050 on every saw, and hand files, whether the logs are dirty or clean.
Him and his dad make an OK living though, so I guess it works. Cut and skid 2-3 loads of logs by early afternoon, 5 days a week.
