Jonsered Shocker!

[Dolmar Junkie]

If there was ever a time for Stihl to start selling in a "box" store chain, now would be the time. Every town has a TSC store, and all the farmers and landowners respect Stihl. All they would have to do is sell maybe five or six of the clamshell models, they could still reserve the premium models for the saw shops.

Actually, Stihl does already sell at a big box store, Rural King. If they sold at TSC too they would already be even further ahead of the other guys than they already are.

Orschelen a chain similar to the aforementioned retailers, is the only echo dealer in my area other than big box and they offer the full product line.
Echo could be bought in different colors and names thru the years, , as a subsidiary of the kioritz corp of Japan echo being one of their us brands along with John Deere. I have a JD 70V(tough as nails) that has an identical model in Echo. After their marriage to Shindaiwa along with Kioritz and Echo all becameYamabiko. So don't necessarily let name changes discourage you. It takes money to make money. ..

 

[jacob j.]

If they're going to be the same saws, but with a different name, I don't really see much of a problem- other than brand recognition. They're all manufactured in the same facilities anyway.

It's like when Electrolux housed Partner and Poulan Pro under the same roof- the Partner guys didn't want to buy Poulan and the Poulan guys didn't want to buy Partner, but they were the same machines.

 

[Dub11]

Orschelen a chain similar to the aforementioned retailers, is the only echo dealer in my area other than big box and they offer the full product line.
Echo could be bought in different colors and names thru the years, , as a subsidiary of the kioritz corp of Japan echo being one of their us brands along with John Deere. I have a JD 70V(tough as nails) that has an identical model in Echo. After their marriage to Shindaiwa along with Kioritz and Echo all becameYamabiko. So don't necessarily let name changes discourage you. It takes money to make money. ..

We have Orschelen here too with echo now. And at a long local Stihl dealer just started selling Echo this year and The good parts supply house I got sells Echo and Shindowa side by side.

 

[MG2186]

Guess I better be getting me a 2260 sooner rather than later now

 

[Dolmar Junkie]

We have Orschelen here too with echo now. And at a long local Stihl dealer just started selling Echo this year and The good parts supply house I got sells Echo and Shindowa side by side.

Don't rub it in cause you live in the big city..

 

[Woodbutcher56]

If they're going to be the same saws, but with a different name, I don't really see much of a problem- other than brand recognition. They're all manufactured in the same facilities anyway.

It's like when Electrolux housed Partner and Poulan Pro under the same roof- the Partner guys didn't want to buy Poulan and the Poulan guys didn't want to buy Partner, but they were the same machines.

Being made in the same place MAYBE, Makita took over Dolmar and now several of their models are made in China!

 

[Dolmar Junkie]

Being made in the same place MAYBE, Makita took over Dolmar and now several of their models are made in China!

That is disappointing, hopefully only going to apply to the entry level/ homeowner models, but who knows...

 

[Jon1212]

Right now, Makita and Husky might as well start putting up billboards here that say, "Please buy Stihl and Echo, we really don't need the business." If I was one of the latter two brands, I would start courting Tractor Supply ASAP.

Stihl has already gone this route, and their independent dealers in Utah are dropping them at an accelerated rate. The #1 dealer (Speed's) is really getting annoyed with the ACE Hardware and regional Farm Supply retailer deals. The shop where I work part time, dropped Stihl 18 months ago. They were doing $250,000 in sales.

I wonder if the move to push RedMax is an effort to recapture some of the market lost to Echo?

 

[Sleeper]

I've seen some redmax saw for sale that were just rebranded 346s

Aw... what a waste of a good name... 346XP being turned into a RedMax... I don't think that saw deserves something like that

Stihl has already gone this route, and their independent dealers in Utah are dropping them at an accelerated rate. The #1 dealer (Speed's) is really getting annoyed with the ACE Hardware and regional Farm Supply retailer deals. The shop where I work part time, dropped Stihl 18 months ago. They were doing $250,000 in sales.

I wonder if the move to push RedMax is an effort to recapture some of the market lost to Echo?

Only God knows what's going through the heads of these people on the mother ship... I think it's stupid to kill off Jonsered.

 

[MarcS]

Very disappointing news. If Husky saws weren't so ugly I'd have an easier time excepting this...and it really chaps my ass that Husky never had a decent saw or market share to speak of until they bought Jonsereds back in the early 80's. Maybe a new Stihl will be in my future afterall.

 

[Time's Standing Stihl]

Guess I better be getting me a 2260 sooner rather than later now

Best buy two mike....lol

 

[FergusonTO35]

Wow. The most fervently sought after saw of today being disguised as a Redmax. Might as well have given it one of those weird totally random names applied to Chicom knockoffs. It's official, Husky is completely out of touch with reality.

 

[angelo c]

fully understanding that my area is unique to many of yours. BUT....Redmax here has a tremendous brand awareness in its string trimmers, backpack blowers and hedge trimmers. the darn things are worth it and very reliable for their weight...and you might never, ever bump into a Jonsered "anything" ever. occasionally you might see a husky 460 or 430 or whatever the Lowes offerings are nowadays..... but nobody considers anything but a Stihl a 'Real Chainsaw'....heck most people would rather a MS 290 then ANY Husky or Dolmar or JohnnyRed.
I hate to see a "brand" go by by but marketing is marketing and every company has to pay their "stuffed shirts" to reinvent a perfectly good wheel every so often just to keep them "working"....corporate work is like water boarding.

 

[166]

Being made in the same place MAYBE, Makita took over Dolmar and now several of their models are made in China!

Put together a new Jonsered chainsaw yesterday. Said made in China on the box.

 

[sunfish]

I've seen some redmax saw for sale that were just rebranded 346s

Was 353, not 346. Very similar, but different enough.

 

[sunfish]

I've always preferred Husky over Jred, but still a bummer.

 

[FergusonTO35]

Put together a new Jonsered chainsaw yesterday. Said made in China on the box.

Wow, that sux. What model was it?

 

[sunfish]

I've sorta kinda wanted a 2260 for awhile. But have too many saws anyway.

 

[jacob j.]

I've sorta kinda wanted a 2260 for awhile. But have too many saws anyway.

Slacker.

 

[jake wells]

i sure do remember the old product line that redmax had 4-5 years ago.