What's the worst chainsaw model ever?

[ThrustSSC]

Couldn't resist, especially after watching you all dreamily recalling great saws you'd had in the past in the other thread... So c'mon, what's the _worst_ saw you ever had?

 

I'll start with a Ryobi PCN 4545 - the first saw I ever had, bought from B&Q when I was just cutting myself some firewood at home out of scrap from a tree surgeon mate. It was forever breaking itself - and even just changing the oil pump required you to strip it down past the point where you split the crankcase. Vibration-mount springs would break, the primer bulb would split, the clutch/brake drum would crack.

 

Second worst saw I had was another one, bought dirt cheap on eBay so I could use the first as a spares donor.

 

Between the two of them I built up 5 years' supply of logs for myself, but looking back it was HARD work.

 

Then all my mates started asking to buy firewood off me 'cos it was a hard winter and everyone had sold out. I spent the first bit of profit on a decent trailer secondhand and the next on my first Husky new... at which point I never looked back.

[Eddy_t]

Worst is definitely the cheap chinky saws, followed closely by the ms261, and I've ran enough different saws

 

 

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[Woodworks]

Had an Oleo-Mac a few years back. Don't remember the model but not just the worst chainsaw I have ever had but probably the worst tool I have ever had. Gutless, brake lever to far forward so hard to apply, brake then became unable to stop the saw remained the same after service. Traded in for my first Husky and never looked back.

[Rich2484]

Worst is definitely the cheap chinky saws, followed closely by the ms261, and I've ran enough different saws

 

 

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Husky 550xp :001_tt2: must be the crappest for sure. :lol:

[mendiplogs]

Husky 550xp :001_tt2: must be the crappest for sure. :lol:

 

HI RICH your a one the next thing we hear well is it the 560 mate :lol:jon

[doobin]

McCulloch Double Eagle 50. Aged 16 as a young greenhorn about eight years ago, the local dealer offered me and my mate a pair of 'new old stock' of the above. McCulloch we thought. Good, we thought!

 

Little did we realise that by 'new old stock' he actually meant 'My old man bought a container load after the '87 storm, and I still haven't shifted them!'

 

Boy, did we suffer. The air filters never sealed properly, meaning the carb needed stripping every other day. The oilers were manual pump type. The mixture was a constant battle to get right. We were too timid back then to take them back and tell him to stick them up his arse!

 

To top it off, the local farmer let us clear a fallen tree and cut it up. Using a Honda trike and trailer on wheelbarrow tyres, we battled through mud and cut huge rings 3 feet in diameter. Got it back to the yard, and the axes just bounced off it.

 

Hornbeam!

 

Those were the days. I remember the first day not long after that we made our first £100 each on a job cutting some coppice in a big back garden. Sold the posts for an extra £50. That evening in the pub we were kings, flicking through our wedge of cash. The buxom cousin of my mate was obviously turned on by such a large amount of money- she was rubbing my leg under the table all night, and I managed to take her back to my lodgings on the local farm

 

Maybe it wasn't such a bad saw after all!

[geoff]

McCulloch Double Eagle 50. Aged 16 as a young greenhorn about eight years ago, the local dealer offered me and my mate a pair of 'new old stock' of the above. McCulloch we thought. Good, we thought!

 

Little did we realise that by 'new old stock' he actually meant 'My old man bought a container load after the '87 storm, and I still haven't shifted them!'

 

Boy, did we suffer. The air filters never sealed properly, meaning the carb needed stripping every other day. The oilers were manual pump type. The mixture was a constant battle to get right. We were too timid back then to take them back and tell him to stick them up his arse!

 

To top it off, the local farmer let us clear a fallen tree and cut it up. Using a Honda trike and trailer on wheelbarrow tyres, we battled through mud and cut huge rings 3 feet in diameter. Got it back to the yard, and the axes just bounced off it.

 

Hornbeam!

 

Those were the days. I remember the first day not long after that we made our first £100 each on a job cutting some coppice in a big back garden. Sold the posts for an extra £50. That evening in the pub we were kings, flicking through our wedge of cash. The buxom cousin of my mate was obviously turned on by such a large amount of money- she was rubbing my leg under the table all night, and I managed to take her back to my lodgings on the local farm

 

Maybe it wasn't such a bad saw after all!

 

Great tale, should have got her splitting the hornbeam afterwards though!

[Stubby]

Never had a bad one . I suppose the ugliest was a big old Jonny Red that was all metal and no A.V. It would be considered " bad " now I suppose but at the time I knew no different .

[MaximusExcelsior]

Worst is definitely the cheap chinky saws, followed closely by the ms261, and I've ran enough different saws

 

 

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I knew you'd say 261 before I saw you had even commented this thread! It's a great saw! And yes I have used a Husqvarna before you ask haha

[Gus McWilliam]

B&Qs own electric saw. It broke within a days light work in an impressive cloud of oil and shards of plastic.