Bottom line...you poked at Randy and he poked back. Anyone reading this thread can clearly see that you are the only one to approach this in an adversarial manner. Randy sees more volume come across his bench than 95% of us in here, myself included. If he sees a trend he shares, even if its only 3 out of 100 that’s time/money wasted for him and his customers. And you can bet your a$$ that if there were trends in other brands he would share that too. If you wanna call me a fan boy go ahead but you would be wrong. If I thought Randy was wrong in what he posted I would say so. Let’s all remember they’re just effing chainsaws and move on to productive discussion. Maybe ask questions relevant to the bearing failures that are starting to show up.
A little perspective may help. Once asked Randy in a PM why he and others were allowed to bash other members when I could not see what they were doing wrong. His response was. Things go on behind the scenes which you can not see, with no further explanation. After I had paid him to port my 562, he used that saw in a video to show how it cut slower than Stihl, 6100 ported saws. No big deal, use my saws for taking care of my property, clearing trees and producing firewood to heat our home for over 40+ years. Tenths of a second do not disturb me, would rather be cutting, then brushing, splitting and stacking. In that video he commented how he liked how that 562xp performed, two weeks later he is 562 bashing. Once again I asked why all the 5 series bashing, but you still port those inferior saws. Answer, "do it for the money". That did not sit well with me, sorry.
It is no big revelation Mr. Evans does not care for Husqvarna 5 series saw. So, then I see this post describing fault of a 572. Was this a factory sealed unopened box, was saw removed, inspected and air filter reinstalled causing cross thread nut and bolt? He complained about poor quality control, doubt removing air filter and reinstalling is a part of that. Do auto makers remove and reinstall wheels on every auto coming down assembly line? If box was sealed, poor assemble by a human or machine caused that issue.
Take a close look at that review, why would anyone hack that filter apart. Already had knob removed, why not just cut or grind that head off of bolt and remove filter. Maybe for dramatic effect.
I never mentioned butt hurt or swore at him, said it was hard for me to understand that was a high use saw. Stihl saws with high use seem to look much worse than that. I was corrected by several. Stated I did not mean he was a liar, but again I am swore at. So my question was? Who has butt hurt.
Randy is not the only person to have information others are not privileged to. Everyone is entitled to follow the leader's opinions, I have my own. If asking him questions or disagreeing with him is against the rules, carry on, I speak with people that see many more saws come past them.
