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How about "the guy that buys a homelite needs a saw to keep the house warm in winter and may not have an extra 200 bucks lying around begging to be spent".  Like I said, a homelite felled and bucked several trees a year for over 20 years.  Then again, we also split everything with mauls because we didn't have money to rent or buy a logsplitter.

Those of you maligning homelite, poulan, etc are the same ones who insist on nothing less than a $3500 AR with a $1000 scope to sit down at the 100 yard line and shoot holes in paper...something a sub-$1000 AR with a $300 scope will do just as well.  If you want to spend several hundred bucks on a saw to trim one or two limbs off the pear tree in the front yard once a year, be my guest.  But don't assume that normal saws don't do real work for real people for a real long time.  Is a stihl better?  Sure.  Is it a few hundred dollars better?  Sure.  Do you need "few thundred dollars better" to trim a tree once a year?  Not really.