Your chainsaw pet peeves

[stretch5881]

A lot of 025 and ms250 saws around here. Only 1 uses a 20" bar, for extra reach in a bucket truck.

 

[FergusonTO35]

I sure as heck wouldn’t consider it a replacement for an 024 other than it being the same size saw because they for sure aren’t the same quality

It has the name Stihl and looks close enough, that's their sole criteria.

 

[JBW1]

Guy at work says, “I cut a lot of wood too” I ask what saws he runs, thinking maybe I just found a new firewood hauling partner. His answer 98% of the time: “oh, its a big one, like a 18 or 20 inch....

 

[deye223]

Guy at work says, “I cut a lot of wood too” I ask what saws he runs, thinking maybe I just found a new firewood hauling partner. His answer 98% of the time: “oh, it a big one, like a 18 or 20 inch....

 

[Carhartt]

Do you have a new chain for my saw, its 16 in....
Working on removing and installing Husqvarna carbs.
Fighting with a saw that ran yesterday.
People that wont clean there air filters.
Stripped out screws that are important.
Getting the tang and needle screwed back down will trying not to send the spring into mystery land.

 

[5155]

When my Son takes my ope to a dealer w/o me knowing and they charge the price of it new to muck it up.
I know I know, I've heard all the "reasons".
My fault for not getting right on it so he could use it,
that'll learn ya.

 

[deye223]

When my Son takes my ope to a dealer w/o me knowing and they charge the price of it new to muck it up.
I know I know, I've heard all the "reasons".
My fault for not getting right on it so he could use it,
that'll learn ya.

Both my sons know they would have to leave the country for good if they did that to me

 

[Larry B]

Guy at work says, “I cut a lot of wood too” I ask what saws he runs, thinking maybe I just found a new firewood hauling partner. His answer 98% of the time: “oh, its a big one, like a 18 or 20 inch....

Most guys around here are farmers and they think the 290 farm boss is a big saw and the cat's posterior. Always have fun pulling out my tweaked out 361 clone with a 25 inch bar and bury it in some ash.

 

[Woodpecker]

I love it when forum newbs try to make saw recommendations based on paper specs...
Mental masterbation for the weights and measures crowd.

 

[ayoungtexan]

People that think that more noise = more power

 

[PA Plumber]

Maybe I missed it...

Watching someone start a cold saw and then pegging the throttle for a few seconds. Ooof. Physically makes me cringe.
Selling/Working on a saw to/for a neighbor then finding out, a few years later, the saw/work came with a lifetime warranty.

Plus what's been mentioned.

 

[FergusonTO35]

Maybe I missed it...

Watching someone start a cold saw and then pegging the throttle for a few seconds. Ooof. Physically makes me cringe.
Selling/Working on a saw to/for a neighbor then finding out, a few years later, the saw/work came with a lifetime warranty.

Plus what's been mentioned.

I sold a fairly nice 20 year old garden tractor to a relative. It always ran great for me and I cut my grass with it before he picked it up. It developed electrical gremlins within a week. I fixed it for him the first time, second time I just agreed to give him his money back. What really pissed me off was that he demanded a cash refund, like I was going to bounce a check on him or something. I let him borrow my super dependable Murray 12/38 to cut his grass while he picked out a new one, and it came back as a no start! Other than this, he is a great guy but he is never touching my machinery again.

 

[stretch5881]

I had a Bronco that my father-in-law liked. I didn't need it, so I gave it to him for Christmas. He believed it came with a lifetime warranty.

 

[Gord]

I sold a fairly nice 20 year old garden tractor to a relative. It always ran great for me and I cut my grass with it before he picked it up. It developed electrical gremlins within a week. I fixed it for him the first time, second time I just agreed to give him his money back. What really pissed me off was that he demanded a cash refund, like I was going to bounce a check on him or something. I let him borrow my super dependable Murray 12/38 to cut his grass while he picked out a new one, and it came back as a no start! Other than this, he is a great guy but he is never touching my machinery again.

There are some people I think must have a strange syndrome where machinery just self destructs when they get near it.

 

[FergusonTO35]

That would be this guy. Which is strange, because he is a really good carpenter and handyman.

 

[59billy]

Almost every chainsaw listing on eBay.

"Runs great; missing carburetor and starter"

"Stihl MS290 professional logger saw collector's item $350"

"I don't know anything about chainsaws, selling this for my grandpa. Please examine pictures carefully. Sold as is." Pictures look like they were taken at night during a thunderstorm, and the guy's got another dozen saws listed.

Actually, I'm not even peeved, because it's free entertainment.

 

[Larry B]

Ebay Guy sent me a an old saw in the mail. Idiot didn't dump the rotten gas out of it and it leaked and soaked the package. Got a call from the local post office. Clerk there knows me well. Asked me to come down and pick it up before the postmaster filed a federal case against the shipper for shipping hazardous material in the mail. I let him know i saved his a$$ and he should dump the gas out next time. His reply was he didn't give a $h/t. Wish now they would have filed the case against him.
Pet peeve. Yeah, Dicks selling saws on Ebay.

 

[FergusonTO35]

Ebay Guy sent me a an old saw in the mail. Idiot didn't dump the rotten gas out of it and it leaked and soaked the package. Got a call from the local post office. Clerk there knows me well. Asked me to come down and pick it up before the postmaster filed a federal case against the shipper for shipping hazardous material in the mail. I let him know i saved his a$$ and he should dump the gas out next time. His reply was he didn't give a $h/t. Wish now they would have filed the case against him.
Pet peeve. Yeah, Dicks selling saws on Ebay.

Lodge a complaint against him through Fleabay, tell them that he illegally sold and shipped hazmat using their site. I'm sure they will not be happy to hear that. In my experience they always side with the buyer anyway.

 

[Cedarkerf]

Watching someone bucking and the saw and bar look like a teeter totter going up and down.. i've never understood that technique.
Also the sloping back cut.
Only time I loan my saws out they come with an operator.

 

[Gord]

Set of shiny 372xp cases came in with a box of parts, guy tried hard to split the cases with a screwdriver and a hammer, not a pretty sight, what a waist.