What in the heck is up with you chainsaw people ?!

Why are you all so nice !?

I posted in the classifieds looking for a chainsaw.
I was new to the site so I figured that I might pay too much for a saw on it's last legs.
What I got was -

1. LOTS of extremely generous offers.
2. One guy offered me a FREE saw!
3. Local offers of FREE firewood.
4. Offers to lend me a saw until I could buy one.

What the heck, don't you all know that people aren't supposed to be nice any more!

I ended up getting a great deal on a 550xp, and took it out for a spin on Saturday. I went with this really old dude that I know (I'm almost 50 and he's a lot older than me... a lot)... He said we were going to cut up a few hedge trees that he fell 2 years ago. I thought, "great, we'll go buck these up and I'll be home in a few hours".

Well, after I topped off my tank SEVEN times ... we were finally done....Limbing and bucking.

"Let's go get the splitter" he says! Oh lord I couldn't even pick up my saw or straighten my arms at this point! He hadn't even broken a sweat. We ended up spitting for 3 more hours and all tolled we were at it the entire day for the most part.
Before I packed up and left he says to me "lets load up our trucks and haul some wood to your place". Now that was never the deal, I was just tagging along to help.

We loaded up his full size truck and my f150 to the point where they were OVER full! He gave me hedge that was split and stacked 2 years ago and sounded like two ball bats knocking together!

* He DID comment on what a screamer of a saw I had and how it sounded like it ran great!

Now this next part I want to say I want to be crystal clear that I am only pointing this out to reference the over the top generosity of the guy I got the saw from.

At one point I bumped the chain break and I couldn't seem to get it to disengage. I texted the guy that sold me the saw (along with a new chain that was sharpened to cut like a light saber) and asked if he'd ever experienced this. Right off the bat he says "oh crap, I have but I don't use the break so I didn't think about it."
I only contacted him for information, NOT complaining! He stood tall and offered to fix it for free and I said he certainly didn't need to do that and I was so happy with the saw that this was nothing!!

A few hours later I get a message that he had already gotten the part and it was headed to my house!!

I have been on lot's and LOTS of forums over the years but I have never met a bunch of people as honest and helpful as I have here!

Thanks again for everything!

* as soon as I can straighten my arms out again.... I'll get out and cut some more wood!

BDB

 

Yep, great bunch of folks here, and more info on more topics then one could imagine... oh and a great sense of humor and humility... no hot heads, or know it alls.

Careful though, there is a bad case of CAD going around in here.

~Nathan

 

yea, I sometimes visit an F150 forum and I am amazed at the venom and hatred between truck owners over nothing!!

Here you can "give someone the business" about the color/size of their saw or their stoves, pellets vs wood etc... and it's just good natured ribbing!

 

This is the first and only forum I'm a part of. Not a lot of b/s around here. Most everyone is like minded. Run what ya got, burn what you have. You don't get a bunch of smart a$$ comments if you ask any question no matter what.

 

Fhc changed my thought on firewood and anything wood related .and I'll tell ya I wouldn't have it any other way.. Every person on here is

 

hmmmmm..... Your throwing "free" around a lot in there! I think it's all just a plot to get you hooked in, and then.....

Since coming here to FHC, all I have learned to do is SPEND $$$!! A LOT OF IT!!

Lets see:
Expensive log splitter
Expensive chain saws (plural)
Expensive chain saw parts and add ons
Expensive chain saw fuel and oil
Expensive soapstone Stove
Expensive hearth
Expensive stainless chimney
Firewood racks, shed, covers...
A Tractor
Axe's, Grenades, Wedges
Hookeroon, Cant Hook
Log Tongs, Timberjack,
Peavey....
I actually had to buy a $2500 SHED to house my firewood tools!!!
Yesterday I placed and order to have my Stihl saw ported
Cast Iron pots and pans
.....
....
..

I think there should be a special form attached to my 1040 this year, 1040-F form ("F" for Firewood). I should get some Obama kickback or something, no???

 

LOL....

I DID go out a buy all new protective gear (chaps, eye protection, helmet, ear protection etc.)
A new Splitting axe for now, but I am already looking at splitters

Yea... I can see some spending ahead!

............ looks like I may have to sell my truck!

 

Yep this is a good place. Good people with tons of advice.

If your here I wonder if you were convinced to buy the fiskars x27 splitting ax? If not we didnt do our job!! Ha

Sounds like you bought a saw from a stand up guy!!

Welcome and stay for a while.

 

I actually used an X27 for a year (then sold it) and split a LOT of wood with it!! I love that thing!!

 

Great story Donnie
Great bunch of people here , for sure

 

Hehehe... we've all come to expect your sentiments around here Donnie. FHC is like coming home, for firewood nuts with big hearts. BTW, those long straight arms ya got now are handy picking up splits... not so hard on your back...

 

Ditto.. And well said!

Now go ice down big donnie brasco.. There's more wood to cut!!

 

I didn't want to say anything before... but yeah an up grade from a Ford is in order. Jk

 

Great group of folks here.

I've been on numerous forums, from sleds to fish tanks, off road bikes to cars.... I've even been a moderator on a couple sites, and even VP / admin on a local club forum for aquarium fish.

There is no other forum like this anywhere.

Lots of great people, answers to questions, recipes, etc... And I haven't even been to a GTG or met anyone personally yet.

 

Tractor by net comes close to it here bit still some random Infighting and grudges that always come back.

 

I agree, I used to spend a lot of time on other forums, trapping, bird hunting etc, on some of them a new guy would get bashed for asking the same newby question that had been asked a million times. not here great guys.

 

I had a 150.. The only way to go is a bigger Ford..