Zomax Chainsaws

[gobbypunk]

So I ordered myself a carpentry bar from Chainsaw Bars and while browsing through the special offers I see 2 of these Zomax saws for £100 and a matey of mine was going to buy 2 so before he does thought I would ask if anyone knows what they are like .

Thanks. Mark

[Khriss]

They do look very Space 1999 😉 FR Jones  selling them. So thats a vote of confidence. K

[Stubby]

1 hour ago, gobbypunk said:

So I ordered myself a carpentry bar from Chainsaw Bars and while browsing through the special offers I see 2 of these Zomax saws for £100 and a matey of mine was going to buy 2 so before he does thought I would ask if anyone knows what they are like .

Thanks. Mark

I think they are the saw of choice for the " re badging " merchants . Most of the garden center type saws start off as a Zomax .  You get what you pay for . As has been said many times before if you aske the Chinese to make a saw for £50 so you can sell it for £100 they will oblige . If you ask them to make a saw that could  reasonably be sold for £500 I'm sure they could do that also .

[coppice cutter]

3 hours ago, Stubby said:

 If you ask them to make a saw that could  reasonably be sold for £500 I'm sure they could do that also .

That would most likely just be the same saw but with better marketing!

[Stubby]

40 minutes ago, coppice cutter said:

That would most likely just be the same saw but with better marketing!

Would be very good marketing . I think you do them an injustice . They can engineer if required . Its just people expect cheap coz its Chinese . 

[Haironyourchest]

I've a €100 Florabest saw, good chance it's a rebadged Zomax. Soft start counterspring pull cord, alloy body. Perfectly fine and useable, but slightly temperamental. If you have the feel for 2 stroke machines it's not a bother. Chain tensioner can loosen. Break is oversensitive. Leaks chain oil. The refinement isn't there but it hasn't let me down.

[Stubby]

12 minutes ago, Haironyourchest said:

I've a €100 Florabest saw, good chance it's a rebadged Zomax. Soft start counterspring pull cord, alloy body. Perfectly fine and useable, but slightly temperamental. If you have the feel for 2 stroke machines it's not a bother. Chain tensioner can loosen. Break is oversensitive. Leaks chain oil. The refinement isn't there but it hasn't let me down.

And all the above reflected in the price . 👍

[topchippyles]

One thing about rob he does test all this gear out before he sells it on his website. Pound for pound i should think great value for a budget saw. Out of stock at the moment.

[coppice cutter]

2 hours ago, Stubby said:

I think you do them an injustice . They can engineer if required .

Respectfully, I think the comment was fair.

 

Firstly, I don't think it's about engineering "per se", it's about mass production with precision and the only stuff that comes out of China fulfilling those requirements are global companies who open factories in China using chinese labour but running the facilities themselves.

 

Fifteen or twenty years ago everyone was saying that by now China would have taken the place of Japan, Korea, and Taiwan as a manufacturing powerhouse but in reality they're no closer at all, not in terms of their own companies and products.

[Stubby]

1 minute ago, coppice cutter said:

Respectfully, I think the comment was fair.

 

Firstly, I don't think it's about engineering "per se", it's about mass production with precision and the only stuff that comes out of China fulfilling those requirements are global companies who open factories in China using chinese labour but running the facilities themselves.

 

Fifteen or twenty years ago everyone was saying that by now China would have taken the place of Japan, Korea, and Taiwan as a manufacturing powerhouse but in reality they're no closer at all, not in terms of their own companies and products.

Respectfully ...OK 🙂