Acer Forestry

Mr Ed - you guys are going to see a lot more baffling posts like this if what I see and hear in Kent is anything to go by? Local HPTC chainsaw and arborist trainers / testers are flat out (Recession??) and maybe because a lot of mature males are realizing that staring at a PC screen or factory walls all week ain't living, and being out in natural surroundings is...I'm 39 and also looking for groundie work, I hacked it for 3 months in Sydney, and I'd still do it now rather than earn 40k in an office, any day.

Is it really worth the risk buying on-line?

Are there any good stories about getting a chainsaw off some one when you havent seen it run or started it...

I`ve just been buggered again buying on line, thought I`d got a bargin

£130 for a 2005 stihl 024.

Took it to my local service depot to get it tuned ready for work...Piston scorched, gaskets blown, gaskets missing!, manifold bent, bolts missing, chain brake loose, throttle switch naff, etc. etc.

Would be £200 to get all the work done. Now a £130 bargin would be £300 pain in proverbial.

Telling the lads at work and all have a horror story about buying from ebay ar a carboot.

Best quote i heard today.."Why would anyone sell a good working saw? Why would anyone think of buying a used saw someone wants to sell?"

 

Any success stories out there?

Any more numpties like me?

Prices on Ebay for used saws are incredible - I bought a spanking new 346XP from the States thinking "great, i'll shave 100 off UK retail", but... the guy sent it in the Husky box without wrapping, so Customs were all over it, and though I'd asked him to send as a "commercial sample", that doesn't wash if its worth a 3 figure sum so add nearly 70 for Import duty - stick with new, and British? Used is not worth the grief