Nostalgia and memory bias for old saws and old loggers

[Thumper88]

I run in a lot of different circles, and I’m in several Facebook groups as well. I often hear old timers laminate long on the saws if the past. How fantastic they were, how easy to work on and tune, and just as often how this new computer stuff is junk, can’t be worked on in the field etc. I’ve owned and run some older saws, including 2 that seem to carry heaps of praise from retired or older production fallers. The 288XP and the 064/066. They both are decent saws, but you can tell that for production work they have been left behind, at least to me. My 462 is lighter and faster with anything smaller than a 32” bar. Parts are getting harder to find, and those old saws had problems of their own even when they were current models. Is it just me, or do most people seem to only remember the good times and forget how older saws needed much more maintenance and attention to run at production levels?

 

[Boomhower]

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[blades]

Just like cars- new does run better and more efficiently but when they go down there is the devil to pay. The old iron there mostly was away to band aid things for a bit now days you are SOL for the most part. Back in the day out on the farm my kit consisted of a couple monkey wrenches couple adj.crescent wrenches phillips and flat screw drive channel locks baling wire and old style electrical tape that was enough to either keep going or get back to equipment shed for better repair 98% of the time. Now it's cell phone time and likely several days or longer before production can resume.