Thread: Cheap Chinese Chainsaw Review

Originally Posted by EchiDna

Are we talkin 5 hours of use, 10? 50? 200? in those 12 months??

I'd say most household firewood gatherers would only ever spend about 2 hours a month actually cutting wood - maybe another 4-6 hours moving, stacking, splitting on top of that, but only a couple with the saw actually working...

Goes camping with us too, so a bit more use as we go away at least twice a month

Baz.

My mate bought one about 2 years ago, he paid $300ish, he now has a Husky

Originally Posted by rovercare

My mate bought one about 2 years ago, he paid $300ish, he now has a Husky

Is the Husky to fetch the sticks for him?

Been looking at chain saws for the past year or so...ummm ahhh ummm again. Was very tempted to go for an ebay special...but ended up last week with a Makita electric 1800 watts. Electric option due to no garage and all wooden "Queenslander" style house on steep slope... SO nowhere to store flammable liquids safely...... Rangie sleeps under extended roofline carport. Trial run...excellent and so smooooth ripping through lillipilli saplings which had taken hold...

blood hell! reading this makes me think that everyone will soon be ditching the Landies and buying "great wall" Utes off Ebay! Chinese stuff.. You get what you pay for! Ok while it works, and then right at the worst possible moment it goes bung! I bought my daughter a fancy phone off ebay (chinese), it never worked, I never got even a reply to my warranty claims, money down the gurgler.

I've had a 62cc one for about 12 months but have only cut a couple of trailer loads so far but already the stop switch stopped working, have to stop the saw with the choke until further investigation. The saw itself cuts really well, especially with the rakers filed down a bit.
Have just purchased the same brand in 72cc with "24" inch bar for the extra grunt and longer bar, paid about $200 with postage. (not out of the box yet)

A timely discussion yesterday I finally lost it with my Kipor Generator and hurled it across the yard.
After 4 years of putting up with it not starting when I needed it and generally putting up with it %$#% it is finally gone, went straight to the Honda dealer and bought a new one and am more than happy with my purchase.
Well tonight I pulled the Kipor down and found the engine quite worn for a unit that had done minimal hours been over serviced with synthetic oil.
The overall quality seems marginal if I had of bought the Honda 4 years ago I would doubt if I would be buying a new one today.

Originally Posted by djam1

A timely discussion yesterday I finally lost it with my Kipor Generator and hurled it across the yard.
After 4 years of putting up with it not starting when I needed it and generally putting up with it %$#% it is finally gone, went straight to the Honda dealer and bought a new one and am more than happy with my purchase.
Well tonight I pulled the Kipor down and found the engine quite worn for a unit that had done minimal hours been over serviced with synthetic oil.
The overall quality seems marginal if I had of bought the Honda 4 years ago I would doubt if I would be buying a new one today.

It's a chainsaw as well as a generator