Bin the Accountants

[Paul Jenks]

Following our, now not so recent, break-in we have a number of new model saws.

One aspect of this is that we have nice shiny saws. The fundamental issue we have discovered is the very low quality of the materials used. We've all seen this gradually creep into the products. Brake handles snapping, carburettors' failing etc.

Now Stihl appear to have gone for all aspects of the saws. The plastic parts are risible in their robustness. Our work practices have not changed and yet the handles, not the brake handles, on the 201s break with the slightest crunch into a tree. 4 have gone, including one today.

When accountants are in charge of a company they rape the brand and the end user suffers a loss in quality. It happened with Mercedes and with M&S.

What an opportunity now for the competition. I'll be looking seriously at the Husqvarna climbing saws.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Dolmar They're coming...!

[skyhuck]

Following our, now not so recent, break-in we have a number of new model saws.

One aspect of this is that we have nice shiny saws. The fundamental issue we have discovered is the very low quality of the materials used. We've all seen this gradually creep into the products. Brake handles snapping, carburettors' failing etc.

Now Stihl appear to have gone for all aspects of the saws. The plastic parts are risible in their robustness. Our work practices have not changed and yet the handles, not the brake handles, on the 201s break with the slightest crunch into a tree. 4 have gone, including one today.

When accountants are in charge of a company they rape the brand and the end user suffers a loss in quality. It happened with Mercedes and with M&S.

What an opportunity now for the competition. I'll be looking seriously at the Husqvarna climbing saws.

 

If you think the 201 is flimsy, you will ain't gonna like the 540, give them a hard stare and they break!!, IME

 

I totally agree with the point your make, the build quality of new saws is atrocious

[ArthurBottlesworth]

There is a group of chinese guys walking round Europe looking closely at this

He and his mates smile politely when you talk to them

They say little ( inscruitable is the word ) but look and photograph a lot

They will be neatly dressed in grey suits and when they get on plane home you wonder what all that was about

 

When they get home they say, " WE CAN TAKE THIS MARKET....what are those european dicks thinking of "

Their factories are full of new machines, and top quality engineers

They will then undercut europeans and they will take the market

 

Stihl are playing into their hands

 

How do I know ? Because they are always in Chester looking at Airbus .....

[skyhuck]

There is a group of chinese guys walking round Europe looking closely at this

He and his mates smile politely when you talk to them

They say little ( inscruitable is the word ) but look and photograph a lot

They will be neatly dressed in grey suits and when they get on plane home you wonder what all that was about

 

When they get home they say, " WE CAN TAKE THIS MARKET....what are those european dicks thinking of "

Their factories are full of new machines, and top quality engineers

They will then undercut europeans and they will take the market

 

Stihl are playing into their hands

 

How do I know ? Because they are always in Chester looking at Airbus .....

 

Stihl saws are already made in China, by Stihl.

[peatff]

There is a group of chinese guys walking round Europe looking closely at this

He and his mates smile politely when you talk to them

They say little ( inscruitable is the word ) but look and photograph a lot

They will be neatly dressed in grey suits and when they get on plane home you wonder what all that was about

 

When they get home they say, " WE CAN TAKE THIS MARKET....what are those european dicks thinking of "

Their factories are full of new machines, and top quality engineers

They will then undercut europeans and they will take the market

 

Stihl are playing into their hands

 

How do I know ? Because they are always in Chester looking at Airbus .....

 

They just buy a saw in China and copy it as cheaply as possible from what I've seen. It's a bit more involved buying and taking an Airbus to bits I would imagine

[humpo48]

Stihl saws are already made in China, by Stihl.

 

 

Agree search the web and you will find the Chinese factory! Made in Germany? Not for much longer. But they still charge a premium price for there saws.

[Tom D]

Dolmar They're coming...!

 

TBH I don't think the "E" series mak dol saws are as robust as the preceding DCS range.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

TBH I don't think the "E" series mak dol saws are as robust as the preceding DCS range.

 

another reason for sticking with dol and not mak then. Dol haven't gone there yet (query 6100). Oh another, Echo. So called rubbish. My cs600 has now cut over 12,000 tonnes of larch and 1500 tonnes firewood without a hitch....

[Paul Jenks]

If you think the 201 is flimsy, you will ain't gonna like the 540, give them a hard stare and they break!!, IME

 

I totally agree with the point your make, the build quality of new saws is atrocious

 

Blimey. I thought they looked ok.

 

Maybe it's a European conspiracy to stop us using chainsaws in a tree.

 

Perhaps if we wrapped the handles in duct tape prior to issuing them they'd last a little longer.