Well done one and all for saving all this great kit. Wonder what forums of the future will be peering at? “Does anyone have a robotic mower from the early 21st century? I like the way their motors hum...”. Cant see it somehow.
I have an oily collection of every chainsaw I’ve ever owned from 1991 to the present day. Around forty machines, some very big, some tiny. Some that caught fire while felling big trees on hot days - yes, that was a fault with Johnsered machines, and I kept them to remind me. One or two crushed by forwarders. One is entirely flattened to a two inch slab, backed over on a stump by me, on a tracked Drott. But thirty or so still working.
When time allows, I give myself the rare and orgiastic treat of lighting up the big Stihl 088, bought from a chap in Wantage who did a lot of clearing work in the eighties storms. I fire it up, which takes Dragoesque arms, and give it half a tank at half bore, then run it through some firewood at full tilt. It runs a four foot bar, which when on 14000 rpm is throwing chain at the tip at about 180 mph. For an engine that doesnt propel you, it really propels you.
Or pull the Husqvarna 3210 into life alongside, and compare the German gutteral glug against the Swedish sing-song whine. Its like listening to a Bach cello work, only far more beautiful. The Husky is bored out to around 126 cc from 121 or nearly 9 horse power, and will run a meagre 42 inch bar.
Latest power saw i got cannot be tuned with a screwdriver. Has to be taken in to the Muppet Show - my nearest agricultural dealers now the good saw lads are all closed down, and put on a black box. They know nothing about the machines workings - a bloke in Sweden gets the data and presses some buttons. You wait to hear the news, like waiting at the vets. It’s either okay or new carb £200 please. Progress is bonkers.
