Used chainsaws online?

[Woodsman]

I was thinking of the Farmmac F660VW 90cc 92cc...

FARMMAC F660VW 90cc 92cc 24/25 28 36 42 inch Gas Chainsaw U.S. STOCK | NEOTEC CHAINSAW

About this item【92cc Professional Chainsaw】 - FARMMAC gas chain saw power head F660VW All parts compatible with Stihl MS660 G660 and Neotec NS892. Efficient 92cc full crank & excellent 2-cycle stroke air-cooled engine has better working...

neotecworld.com

 

[Coupe]

Which ever way you go there is a risk. I have brought them on line
and had no problems at all but also depends on the age of the
saw a lot.
If the saw has been used regularly I would say you should be pretty
right unless it's been mistreated. On the other hand if it
has sat in a shed and not been run for a number of years hard diaphragms.
If you can see them and give them a test run always the best but if you
cannot it's a risk you would have to take. I have brought them from auction
houses sometimes and the auctioneer was real go by saying he would refund money
if it was shot and some of them were. Peoples way of loading there junk on to someone else.

 

[ammoaddict]

I was thinking of the Farmmac F660VW 90cc 92cc...

FARMMAC F660VW 90cc 92cc 24/25 28 36 42 inch Gas Chainsaw U.S. STOCK | NEOTEC CHAINSAW

About this item【92cc Professional Chainsaw】 - FARMMAC gas chain saw power head F660VW All parts compatible with Stihl MS660 G660 and Neotec NS892. Efficient 92cc full crank & excellent 2-cycle stroke air-cooled engine has better working...

neotecworld.com

Check other places. I got a neotec 395xp clone with 36" bar and chain for 300 delivered from amazon. I had a couple small issues with it but neotec made it right.

 

[ammoaddict]

At present it is -3F as soon as it warms up a bit 0F I am heading out to do a bit of cutting 044 Arctic and a 572XPG if the G444 had heated handles I might be more inclined to grab it.

I got an 044 arctic a few months ago. I bought a bar and chain for it and fired it up but haven't gotten around to using it yet.

 

[Bill G]

I was wondering if any of you have bought used chainsaws online from places like ebay or craigslist and is it wise to do so? I recently saw a STIHL MS362C for $99 dollars. The seller has a 99.4% positive rating. Photos in link below...

Get the Job Done with this STIHL MS362C Chainsaw Stihl MS 362 C Works Great | eBay

Used Condition (see Pics) and This Stihl MS362C chainsaw is powerful! product line. The MS362C model is designed to get the job. cutting tasks. You will receive the Stihl Chainsaw only. Made in Germany, it belongs to the STIHL FARM BOSS.

www.ebay.com

What do you guys think?

#1 As already pointed out it will sell way over $99
#2. The seller is a Chicago pawn shop...............need I say more
#3 Over the past 25 years I have bought and sold thousands of saws over the internet. Just know what you are looking at and if you cannot get the guy/gal on the horn and talk with them then you damn sure better trust them.

 

[Bill G]

I got an 044 arctic a few months ago. I bought a bar and chain for it and fired it up but haven't gotten around to using it yet.

Hopefully a new 462 Arctic arrives here Friday.

 

[DOUGUSHKA]

Oh my goodness wow! Fwee beewoah! U are such a brave soul. I shall name u: Xtra Power-G-dawg-Arctic

I wouldn't even turn on carb heat/handle heat at -3.

There's some really nice deals on negotiated timber sales right now. Spot I'm trying to contract is a cold hole today. If u want to cut in some real MS negative 044 arctic kinda territory:

Oh my goodness wow! Fwee beewoah! U are such a brave soul. I shall name u: Xtra Power-G-dawg-Arctic

I wouldn't even turn on carb heat/handle heat at -3.

There's some really nice deals on negotiated timber sales right now. Spot I'm trying to contract is a cold hole today. If u want to cut in some real MS negative 044 arctic kinda territory:

Oh my goodness wow! Fwee beewoah! U are such a brave soul. I shall name u: Xtra Power-G-dawg-Arctic

I wouldn't even turn on carb heat/handle heat at -3.

There's some really nice deals on negotiated timber sales right now. Spot I'm trying to contract is a cold hole today. If u want to cut in some real MS negative 044 arctic kinda territory:

Dot Lake is out there man. I spent a few years in Tok in the early 60s. Cold country for sure. Have been settled in Anchorage for many years now. Would like to make acquaintance with any other Alaskans on the forum

 

[mainer_in_ak]

Dot Lake is out there man. I spent a few years in Tok in the early 60s. Cold country for sure. Have been settled in Anchorage for many years now. Would like to make acquaintance with any other Alaskans on the forum

Hello from Interior Doug. Yep, the timber sales out that way are about an hour drive and always coldest spot! May try to go after something closer on my hill. Remember that temp inversion here in interior? Always much warmer atop these tanana hills.

Was stationed down south there at Ft Richardson from 2002-2010. Got purdy fond of this area up north here after attending the mountaineering course at black rapids northern warfare training center as well as the cold weather course in the winter. Was an easy move north. Land was cheap! No taxes, no borough.

 

[Woodsman]

Dot Lake is out there man. I spent a few years in Tok in the early 60s. Cold country for sure. Have been settled in Anchorage for many years now. Would like to make acquaintance with any other Alaskans on the forum

Hello from Interior Doug. Yep, the timber sales out that way are about an hour drive and always coldest spot! May try to go after something closer on my hill. Remember that temp inversion here in interior? Always much warmer atop these tanana hills.

Was stationed down south there at Ft Richardson from 2002-2010. Got purdy fond of this area up north here after attending the mountaineering course at black rapids northern warfare training center as well as the cold weather course in the winter. Was an easy move north. Land was cheap! No taxes, no borough.

I would assume you guys have wood stoves up there in your homes? If you do, do you do all your cutting and collecting of firewood for your stove for the winter or buy it from a lumber yard already cut? Using a chainsaw for firewood cutting, does it really wear out a saw or is it the milling that does that?

Also, how many pieces of firewood to get you through end of September to end of May? 2,000? 3,000?

 

[IffykidMn]

Oh my goodness wow! Fwee beewoah! U are such a brave soul. I shall name u: Xtra Power-G-dawg-Arctic

I wouldn't even turn on carb heat/handle heat at -3.

There's some really nice deals on negotiated timber sales right now. Spot I'm trying to contract is a cold hole today. If u want to cut in some real MS negative 044 arctic kinda territory:

Back when I had to go outside for work there were plenty of mornings that started out at -20 to -30 which is one of the reasons I now wait until it gets above 0f before venturing outside unless I have to, since that time I also moved and retired to a warmer climate where winters seldom get much below -15 during the winter. It is only -7F this morning but no matter as I sit by the fire with a cup of coffee and the internet to keep me entertained.

 

[IffykidMn]

I'm not sure where in MN you are, but I'd bet that there's a dealer or small engine shop within your normal travels that has a broken/abandoned/customer didn't want to fix non-China saw that could be had for a song. You could reduce it to a pile of parts and have something with a lot lower risk level to build. If you really wanted to be cheap you could use the cheap parts to rebuild it and still come out with less into it.

I am sure the local saw shop has a pile of saws I have my very own pile as well if I was so inclined, just does not have the same appeal to me as putting a new kit saw together. I smooshed a 572XP that only had about 10hrs on it back around July-August and bought 3 new 572XPGs as a replacement two of which have not been out of there shipping boxes yet so sometimes it is not about the money but the entertainment value.

 

[mainer_in_ak]

I would assume you guys have wood stoves up there in your homes? If you do, do you do all your cutting and collecting of firewood for your stove for the winter or buy it from a lumber yard already cut? Using a chainsaw for firewood cutting, does it really wear out a saw or is it the milling that does that?

Also, how many pieces of firewood to get you through end of September to end of May? 2,000? 3,000?

Down anchorage, not many wood stoves. It's a city and natural gas is cheap. Same for Palmer/Wasilla not many wood stoves and natural gas is cheap. Palmer Wasilla has traffic like a city. Like setting there at a stoplight for 20 mins, 300 yards of traffic. It's literally a suburb of Anchorage.

Once u get north or east of the natural gas: willow and further north, or Sutton and further north east, everybody burns wood.

I go through about 10 cord of wood per year for my personal use. No electricity, heating oil stove or running water. Haul water and only burn wood. I get wood off my tree jobs, or my 15 acres of birch. Most pro saws go about 5 years of cutting, and the crank bearings loosen up.

For saw logs: negotiated timbers sales with AK-DNR on acreage that has good sized spruce trees. Also, there are hundreds of thousand of acres of fire-killed spruce. But the big outfits get on that, for making 3 sided logs at their mills. That sht is primo, all seasoned, no bark, doesn't shift around.

 

[Woodsman]

Down anchorage, not many wood stoves. It's a city and natural gas is cheap. Same for Palmer/Wasilla not many wood stoves and natural gas is cheap. Palmer Wasilla has traffic like a city. Like setting there at a stoplight for 20 mins, 300 yards of traffic. It's literally a suburb of Anchorage.

Once u get north or east of the natural gas: willow and further north, or Sutton and further north east, everybody burns wood.

I go through about 10 cord of wood per year for my personal use. No electricity, heating oil stove or running water. Haul water and only burn wood. I get wood off my tree jobs, or my 15 acres of birch. Most pro saws go about 5 years of cutting, and the crank bearings loosen up.

For saw logs: negotiated timbers sales with AK-DNR on acreage that has good sized spruce trees. Also, there are hundreds of thousand of acres of fire-killed spruce. But the big outfits get on that, for making 3 sided logs at their mills. That sht is primo, all seasoned, no bark, doesn't shift around.

My math could be wrong so correct me if I'm wrong. A cord of wood is roughly around 700 pieces of firewood? So, roughly around 7,000 pieces of firewood a year you burn? 585 to 600 pieces of firewood a month?

I'm trying to figure out the math and how many pieces of firewood I would need from end of September to end of May if I only use firewood for heat in a wood stove. 4,800 maybe? Do you know what the average people use for the winter for heat?

 

[mainer_in_ak]

No idea. I've never counted individual pieces of wood or that silly face-cord speak. I just go by cords. Why are you hung up on counted pieces of wood? Where are you trying to heat solely with wood?

Interior Alaska and pure birch:

Sep-october, can smolder stove back to 300-325 f.

November-march, gotta keep er pinned to 350-400 f less burn time, you are married to that fkn wood stove.

April-may, back to 300-325 f.

**These figures change dramatically if yer one of the poor bastards that only burn spruce. Which is mediocre firewood:
Leaves no coals, burns completely to ash.

Spruce sap pockets erupts in sparks, these spark create enough pressure where they travel up the whole pipe. Sparks find any little pin hole in yer stove pipe to catch yer roof on fire

Caustic: eats stove pipes down to nothing
Not very dense, piss-poor burn times.

Rapid cresote build up. Can't damp down, gotta run it HOT

 

[Woodsman]

No idea. I've never counted individual pieces of wood or that silly face-cord speak. I just go by cords. Why are you hung up on counted pieces of wood? Where are you trying to heat solely with wood?

Interior Alaska and pure birch:

Sep-october, can smolder stove back to 300-325 f.

November-march, gotta keep er pinned to 350-400 f less burn time, you are married to that fkn wood stove.

April-may, back to 300-325 f.

**These figures change dramatically if yer one of the poor bastards that only burn spruce. Which is mediocre firewood:
Leaves no coals, burns completely to ash.

Spruce sap pockets erupts in sparks, these spark create enough pressure where they travel up the whole pipe. Sparks find any little pin hole in yer stove pipe to catch yer roof on fire

Caustic: eats stove pipes down to nothing
Not very dense, piss-poor burn times.

Rapid cresote build up. Can't damp down, gotta run it HOT

I'm trying to reduce my heating bill. I have a furnace that uses oil. Oil is very expensive especially where I'm at. I'm just trying to figure out how much wood costs vs oil per month and per year. I'm spending around $2,500 a year on oil.

 

[mainer_in_ak]

You gotta scrounge bud. Resources are a competition. If yer really about reducing heating costs or the overhead of living: keep yer $1500 MS 500i fetish in check.

Keep yer eyes peeled on the classifieds for Used blazeking stoves. Start offering to haul wood away for neighbors or friends. Get a wood shed built. On yer wood shed, try to scrounge reclaimed materials, chain-saw mill scrounged wood and buy used roofing metal. Maybe make a little money taking away wood for folks.

A wood cache is like a bank account: make more deposits than withdrawls.

 

[Woodsman]

You gotta scrounge bud. Resources are a competition. If yer really about reducing heating costs or the overhead of living: keep yer $1500 MS 500i fetish in check.

Keep yer eyes peeled on the classifieds for Used blazeking stoves. Start offering to haul wood away for neighbors or friends. Get a wood shed built. On yer wood shed, try to scrounge reclaimed materials, chain-saw mill scrounged wood and buy used roofing metal. Maybe make a little money taking away wood for folks.

A wood cache is like a bank account: make more deposits than withdrawls.

Why would I do all that for? I live in the suburbs in the lower 48. I'll just have the wood delivered to my house.

I just wanted to know how many pieces of wood I would have to cut and if it's worth the time and energy cutting all it myself or just buying it.

 

[Lions fan]

No idea. I've never counted individual pieces of wood or that silly face-cord speak. I just go by cords. Why are you hung up on counted pieces of wood? Where are you trying to heat solely with wood?

Interior Alaska and pure birch:

Sep-october, can smolder stove back to 300-325 f.

November-march, gotta keep er pinned to 350-400 f less burn time, you are married to that fkn wood stove.

April-may, back to 300-325 f.

**These figures change dramatically if yer one of the poor bastards that only burn spruce. Which is mediocre firewood:
Leaves no coals, burns completely to ash.

Spruce sap pockets erupts in sparks, these spark create enough pressure where they travel up the whole pipe. Sparks find any little pin hole in yer stove pipe to catch yer roof on fire

Caustic: eats stove pipes down to nothing
Not very dense, piss-poor burn times.

Rapid cresote build up. Can't damp down, gotta run it HOT

Huh? What is so silly about face cords? That has been the accepted measurement for cut firewood here for ever.

 

[Lions fan]

Why would I do all that for? I live in the suburbs in the lower 48. I'll just have the wood delivered to my house.

I just wanted to know how many pieces of wood I would have to cut and if it's worth the time and energy cutting all it myself or just buying it.

You don't sound like much of a woodsman. Fact is, if you don't have access to free wood and you don't enjoy putting it up, you're further ahead to get a part time job and simply turn up the thermostat.

 

[LAWN BOY]

I've ordered a few saws from eBay, all transactions went well. I've bought lots of saws on Craigslist, all transactions went well. I've bought a few saws from fb marketplace, also well. Buying saws online is great in my books.