I've been searching high and low, cruising CL's, calling all the back country "shops" for weeks but today I finally found what I've been looking for. I traded in my 3 year old 290 Farm Boss (16") on an older 044. It's got a new jug and piston with a few hours of run time on it. Older, not as pretty, but way more productive.
Originally it had a 24" bar on it but for my use a 20" should be sufficient so we downsized that and put a full chisel chain on it. I ran it through some 14"-15" diameter oak and holy moly, why didn't you guys tell me to do this sooner - lol
I wanted something in the 034 super on up range and he had a couple others, a 360 & 038. Neither of which had any work done on them. Cheaper of course but having this much more saw sitting next to them I couldn't say no. The good news is my time actually cutting is drastically going to be cut down. Bad news is I'll probably just find more to cut - lol.
Thanks to all the guys that have been around here for a while. I searched this forum and a couple others mentioned here and it really help me narrow the search and what to look for.
Originally it had a 24" bar on it but for my use a 20" should be sufficient so we downsized that and put a full chisel chain on it. I ran it through some 14"-15" diameter oak and holy moly, why didn't you guys tell me to do this sooner - lol
I wanted something in the 034 super on up range and he had a couple others, a 360 & 038. Neither of which had any work done on them. Cheaper of course but having this much more saw sitting next to them I couldn't say no. The good news is my time actually cutting is drastically going to be cut down. Bad news is I'll probably just find more to cut - lol.
Thanks to all the guys that have been around here for a while. I searched this forum and a couple others mentioned here and it really help me narrow the search and what to look for.