OK, finally mustered the energy to line mine up.
The old Echo is late-80s vintage. Much to my wife's disgust, I bought it at a genuine half price in Richmond when we were on holiday down in Nelson. For some strange reason, she thought a cot/pram/ etc was higher priority with the first baby due. Strange creatures.. Has done a heap of work and eventually got a bit temperamental and lost a bit of power. Given the amount of work it had done, I succumbed to a new Husky and that's been fine. A year or so after I bought the Husky, I was yapping to a guy who knew all about servicing saws. He immediately said "Betcha a carb kit will revive it" and sure enough, she's back to good health and it makes a great backup saw. I don't thrash it too much as parts are now an issue.
The 95cc Jonsered (a secondary Husky brand) I got low mileage second hand and it's been great. Usually lives with a two foot bar and that's a 3 foot one in the background which I use for the big macros on our life sentence block as well as whacking into bigger gums on my mate's place. It's also had a bit of use in a home-made chainsaw mill.
I look with itchy fingers at new/flasher models but in reality, they wouldn't do a single thing more than the current ones.
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