Ebay chainsaw

[anshutz1]

Hi all, might be wrong place for this, but.... Has anyone brought one of the 20" 52cc chainsaws from the bay? They are £79 plus posting. MJ-TOOLS are the retailers. Loads of good feedback and seems almost to good a price. I've already got a McCulock 14", and for a "hobby" type saw is very good. As said, good feedback, but wanted to run it passed you folks first! Thanks in advance for any advice.

 

[2sheds]

i was virtually born to use a chainsaw, spend mostly all day every day using one.
i reckon it depends on what use you have for it and what you reckon a 20" saw will do that a 14" won't.

honest opinion having never seen one and basing it on price alone is it will be a scabby donkey of a saw, won't last and will be mostrly wholy unpleasant to use.

(sorry, only my 4th post and i m being rite negative about stuff)

 

[anshutz1]

Thanks, don't worry about negative thing, thats why I asked. Moved around a bit and been 12 months since last had wood burner/open fire. Now playing catch up, building log shelter and trying to find any and as much wood as I can without paying! As said the McCulock has done me well, but thought bigger blade would help in logging bigger bits, also bigger CC. That all said I already thought it would be too good to be true...... Would prefer Stihl or better, but not enough pennies for that. Thanks again for help

 

[demographic]

What is it? A Sthil 028?

 

[spandit]

A 14" bar will cut through a 28" log - that's a massive tree! I wouldn't advise an amateur with a cheap chainsaw to even attempt felling something that big & if someone is delivering logs bigger than that, how are you moving them?

 

[Peter_t]

im a tree surgeon and at work we rarely need a 20" bar and when we do its a BIG tree. i don't want to sound nasty but if you need to fell a tree that needs a 20" bar you really shouldn't be touching it!

also a profesional 50cc chainsaw doesn't have the power to pull a 20" chain let alone something worth £79.

i know these saws, they used to be ilegaly badged as husqvarna in part of an ebay scam and where sold for around £400 i wouldnt waste your money on it.

what do you need the saw for? why cant you use your McCulock?



pete

 

[blacktimberwolf]

T his is probably the object in question..http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/58cc-Petr...arden_GardenPowerTools_CA&hash=item3366a05fa9

 

[demographic]

Its worth noting that there's some fake Sthil chainsaws about, from China and very cheap new saws.

Worth checking it out fully before you spend money on them.

 

[spandit]

If you can buy a new Stihl mail order then it ain't a Stihl... (unless the seller knows you've used a chainsaw before)

 

[anshutz1]

thanks all. I will forget that and spend the money on chains for old faithfull!!!!

 

[Freddy]

My brother bought one of them saws when a huge tree on our ground fell onto the farmers ground next door , We have a stihl saw but this tree was way to big for it , so as mentioned we bought the cheep saw just to clear this tree , at that price we figured if it just done this tree it would be ok . Well it done the tree fine , a few bits shook loose and a few bits fell off but to be honest it still fires up second pull and runs sweet as a nut . Its no where near a stihl but i think as long as you remember that its fine . We dont use it much now but if we are cutting some big stuff then we get it out and it does whats asked of it .

 

[bushwacker bob]

A friend of mine brought an everlasting chainsaw from Argos. Its a Spear an Jackson 16" saw, cost £100 but when it went wrong within 2 years of purchase( didn't start within 5 pulls), he just took it back and they gave him a new one. I know somone else who is on his 3rd one in 5 years.

 

[robin wood]

A friend of mine brought an everlasting chainsaw from Argos. Its a Spear an Jackson 16" saw, cost £100 but when it went wrong within 2 years of purchase( didn't start within 5 pulls), he just took it back and they gave him a new one. I know somone else who is on his 3rd one in 5 years.

Is this meant to be a good thing or bad? I just despise these cheap horrid tools, we all know they will be in landfill in a year or two if not less. It has got to be a lot worse for the environment to have made those three cheap crappy saws instead of one decent one. Personally I would rather wait until I can afford decent stuff and if I can't afford decent I manage without.

 

[bushwacker bob]

Its actually a good thing Robin. We do a lot of logging and fuel 6 large open fires. We also have 3 huskys of various sizes but he preferes his S&J so it is heavily used.