WHICH CHAINSAW

[Bernhard]

When I started with saws, my first one was a Solo. Why? Cause there was a dealer and a shop only 1 km away from me, and it was cheaper then a comparable Stihl. My first bruscutter was a Solo. Why? Please, look above.

Most people here ran Solo stuff at these times, even we have to Solo Mowers left.
But when I tried to replace the saw and the cutter, the owner of the shop had retired and the shop was closed.

Husquarna and Dolmar we didnīt have here in the mid 80`. so I go with Stihl and bought my first, a 028, which is still running without any major probs.
I stayed with Stihl, cause of the good dealers support.

If the shop would be still here, I think I would have gone ahead with Solo, but 25 km to the shop is too much, cause my Stihl Dealer is only 6km away.

So what should I vote for? Stihl, cause Iīm running them since around 20 years?
Or Solo, which have a good quality, are cheaper then the Stihl, but have bad dealers network?

[JD hauler]

husky all the way.

[Norm]

I've always been a stihl fan but have heard so many good comments about the husky 372 that when the baileys sales catalog came in yesterday I couldn't resist buying one. Got the 20" and 28" bar with a few loops of chain for each.

Now the bigger question is how I'm going to explain why I need that fourth chain saw when the box arrives.

[boboak]

Stihl...mostly because of dealer support.  I wouldn't mind running Husky but the Stihl shop has been great for over twenty-five years.   There are several Stihl "dealers" in this area...mostly bike shops and hardware stores that sell Stihl stuff in addition to their other product lines...but they don't come close to what a real saw shop should be.  I"ve tried ordering parts a few times and they have no real idea of whats going on.  The saw shop I use can even get parts for my old stuff...032s etc...and can work on them,too.
Stihl has never let me down...my 066 is like the Energizer Bunny,just goes and goes and goes.

[DoubleD]

Well Norm you could explain your fourth chainsaw in this way:
"Honey you know four is better than three"

[Norm]

Unfortunately DD I never got the chance to explain anything, I was just going to put it in the shed and act like I'd had it all along. But noooo the next morning after I ordered it when we came to work there was a message on my phone from baileys. They had noticed on my order that I'd picked the wrong chain size for the 28" bar and left a message to ask if that was really the chain I wanted. Next time I won't use the speaker phone to listen to my messages while Patty's sitting next to me.

On the other hand how many companies care enough to make a call to help out their customers. Thanks to Charise at baileys, nice folks to work with.