Jason, good reviews from 2 of my coworkers and friend. All 3 of them are Very happy with there performance.
@KS Plainsman in regards to Stihl:
I will freely admit to having been a long time Stihl user and fanboy but what they have done corporate
wide is sickening to me.
I have 3 Stihl dealers near me, 1) is 0.9 miles from my house. 2) 1.2 miles 3) 3.7 miles
None of them worth a *s-word as far as Stihl service or parts availability.
But they have plenty of New saws to sell you!
They must have taken their business plan from John Deere, control and saturate.
Squeeze out any small private franchise owners by using corporate policy followed by
"Sorry I have no control over this, it's coming down from above"
*frenching frustrating!!
Ok back to my pizza and beer.
Ah, I see. I admit, until 2 years ago, I used nothing but old McCulloch's and the only reason I bought new Stihl's, was because I wanted to start getting into tree removal's and needed bigger saws. Also, my dealer sounds about like what you mentioned, he never really has a "why" answer on things I ask, just "I'm not real sure", or "that's what my Rep told me".
Like one thing that was stupid to me, when I bought my 461's was, he couldn't get them with a wrap handle bar, even though it was listed on my dealer's portion of the Stihl site. He said "No, my Rep told me they don't have wrap versions of the 461 and neither of us are sure why they are listed on our site I can't even order them with it either". Even though I told him other people can get them, like out west and they were on Ebay as well, but for some reason, they had no answer.
That dealership I bought those from is definitely only interested in selling saws, because any question I have for him, he never seems to know, so I come here to find my answer and then inform him. For instance, he didn't know the difference between full chisel and semi chisel chain, when I bought my saws. He had no idea the difference. No joke.
After that, I bought my 2 660's from somewhere else online and skipped dealing with them the next 2 times.
I figured it was just because selling Stihl equipment is just an extra thing for them. They are more worried about half million dollar tractors and expensive ag equipment.
I guess I didn't realize that was an industry wide mentality. I figured it was just an "out here" thing, since tree work and logging is almost non existent out here.
Thanks for the explanation Sir. I'm admittedly a little out of the loop on alot of things, so I wanted to make sure what I was missing.
So knowing that now, is Husky better about supporting the little guy, or are they the same way?