Old Friend

I blew up my chainsaw. Dang it anyway. I really liked that saw and it wasn’t that old. I know that I do use it quite a bit but I make sure to use the approved gas/oil ratio with preferred lubricant. Mike even uses it once in a while when he doesn’t want to start up one of his huge saws that he usually uses. But for some reason my saw lost all compression and I could not even start it.

Mike took it into the saw shop since it was still under warranty. They said the same things that any owner of a repair under warranty owner hears, “Gee, we sell hundreds of these and nobody else has a problem.”

Once they tore the saw apart and saw that the motor was toast they called the company and they heard that same line along with some new ones like, “It must be operator error. Did the operator read the entire owners manual?” The company seemed to be under the impression that I (as the owner) liked to rev the motor at full tilt without actually cutting wood, putting too much strain on the motor, and causing it to fail. Mike argued the point vehemently saying that I didn’t have time to do such nonsense. (Thank you so much for coming to my defense honey.)

Eventually the company gave the saw shop a new motor, but the shop had to do all the labor to put the motor in and put the whole saw back together.

It took about a week to get the saw repaired and now I have it back in my hot little hands. I just can’t get the thoughts of those comments out of my mind. Why would the company think that someone would rev up a saw and not cut anything? It that a fun thing to do? Am I missing out on something?

If I didn’t love my brand new motor in my good old friend, I might just be tempted to find out. Except for the fact that I don’t have time for such nonsense…