Chainsaw Repair

What are you guys seeing local?

From a used selling point.

stihl sells the easiest for me local.

husky next and once a stihl guy runs one comparable to the stihl they leave with the husky usually.

dolmar hard to sell no local known name for some but by a few guys I know 3-4.

echo I cant give away it seems

poulan only to those in the know or come test some first hand and price then sells them too.

Name sells it seems.  Not the quality or price point I have noticed.

Is that the 031 I sold to a guy I know for a back up to his husky?  Then his brother seen it and traded a husky 450 and same money he paid for saw in 1st place? 
That guy was grinning ear to ear when he told me the story and showing me the husky to check out.

I usually sell husqvarna the most. More bang for the buck. I like Stihl but I can't buy them cheap so I don't mess with them. Except maybe a 028 here and there.

My neighbor I used to work with from across the highway came over and seen a Dolmar 115i, 6800iH, 5105, and two 7900's.

He wanted to know why I had those saws and what was so good about that brand he had never heard of?

He has a Husqvarna 435 and a Stihl FS 45 and some 10 yrs ago had a couple mutual work friends over to his house with their Stihls to cut down his huge dead ash.

I had a bunch of Echos around in the shop too and he seemed to accept them?

In this part of the nation, Echo and Dolmar come from the same distributor and many echo dealers are also Dolmar dealers.

There's a Stihl dealer on every corner? There's 7 Stihl dealers within 25 miles of my house. Only one of them stocks any parts though.

The usual here, the big 2 no matter in what condition seem to demand  big $'s. as I tend to be out of step a bit, & keep a #of the big 2's running for a commercial logging company,( let me state a this point I have nothing against them) I have none of the 2 in my collection  I have over the last 3/4 years acquired freebies & bought for very small amounts of cash or exchanged various models of Olympic, Oleo Mac, & various branded saws manufactured by the now named Efco/Emack company. at first the local to me owners of the big 2 jobbies thought that I & my saws would be good as the butt of a joke but after 3 French equiv's of a GTG  a lot have changed there attitude after running the various Oleo's, + 4 or so Prof Alpina's & when I tell them that my 10 or so saws total probably only cost the amount of possibly 2 of their saws, they now in a good few cases  don't consider it a joke, & are looking to try to buy mine,  or buy up any local sales, the tunnel vision for the big 2 is a bit less & several guys now realize that there is life outside of Stihl & Husky + you can buy a saw for very few$'s that will perform almost & in some cases equal or better to the big 2 comparable models trouble is the words out & the bargains are starting to dry up Bu***r