Well That Didn’t Work

Ol’ Reliable simply wasn’t. Wasn’t the least bit reliable that is.

After a new spark  plug and a little tinkering, Mike had the old saw running, he tested it by making a few cuts on some bigger pieces of wood that were in the landing, then I took over and worked about a half hour cutting firewood our of the big limbs, tree tops, butt pieces and full length trees that were not long enough to make into logs for the deck. Things seemed to be running ok with the old saw,

The next day, I started the saw with several pulls of the cord, but it never seemed to rev up fully. I was able to saw a couple of Gator loads of wood but without keeping constant pressure on the trigger, it would sputter and die. I had to keep restarting the darn thing, then one time I could not even get the motor to turn over as I pulled and pulled the starter cord.

To recap, my handy-dandy little saw that served me so well, was in the shop in North Plains (they sell and service the Echo brand there). The business had called and told us that the little saw would take many parts in order to be function-able again and it would cost more to fix it than buying 2 new saws. And then we took Ol’ Reliable into the saw shop in Banks (for the Stihl brand), and they told us practically the same thing as the North Plains business. Something about scoring in the shafts…blah, blah, blah, will get both saws back for parts, and good luck.

This is the newest member of my ‘Firewood Reclamation Project’ that is my effort to keep the log landing cleaned up and our wood stack filled.