On Sun, 16 May 2010 22:20:03 -0400, "Mike Marlow"
wrote the following:

Larry Jaques wrote:


My 2-decade old Remington chainsaw nearly bit the dust last week when
I let a rental worker (needed an extra body for digging out those
pampas grass clusters) use it. It had been cracked already, but the
bar and chain now bounce around a 7" arc at the tip. It still works,
and I cut down 2 dozen hedge trunks with it, but it's on its last leg.
Hmm, what to replace it with...maybe a chainsaw-on-a-pole.

Ummmmm... hey Larry - if your bar is that broken that it traverses a 7" arc,
then it's a no brainer - it's junk. At least the bar is. This one is too
obvious to even spend time talking about...

No, it's the plastic housing, or what's left of it, which is allowing
the bar/chain/adjuster assembly to move around. What has amazed me is
that it hasn't come off and self-destructed. It still cuts wood! And
yes, I was quite careful and haven't used it again. I hope to replace
it tomorrow, but I only use it once or twice a season. This was the
second time this Spring.

--
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our
inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter
the state of facts and evidence. -- John Adams, December 1770
'Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials'