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Originally Posted by 72c20customcamper
Bought a new wood cutter upper today . I had a 15% off coupon from Home Depot . Website said 8 in stock after about 45 minutes of searching the kid comes out with a mangled up box . Said it’s all we got others must have walked . Ask when they will get more deer in headlights . He calls the manager and we look inside the box all the paperwork and a little bottle of two stroke oil but no scrench . He says 25% off and keep your coupon . So I got a $449 saw for $336.75
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Good deal on that one. Back in the middle 90's, there was a saw/sharpening/ repair shop of sorts, a few miles from the house. The older fellow that owned and operated it was retired and did very well. But the shop wasn't organized very well and when he threw in the towell, there was an auction of the contents. On the same day there was an estate auction a few doors down which attracted most of the people. Chainsaws are boring, I guess. Anyway, the auctioneer had a gallery of 7 of us and myself and one other person did the bidding. I bought 16 saws of various states of repair, all complete and several different brands( no Stihls). When I got home, I went through them and found that 8 of them were repaired, and I managed to get 4 more of them in good shape.. I had 12 good midsize saws and no wood to cut. The next year a series of tornados and windstorms hit our area and I sold used saws out of the trunk of the car after work for 75 bucks a pop.
Good timing on my part. I still have a couple that are obsolete and my daily use saws are a Farm Boss Stihl and a MA 211 trim saw. They serve me well.