Andrew,

I am also looking to upgrade. My budget is somewhere around 1500$ and I
am willing to wait if something is currently out of reach. I also use a
chainsaw to maul most of the rough work. Need at least 12 inches of
capacity in a saw that I will never want to upgrade.

Recommendations from the woodturners carry a lot of weight with me since
we will use (abuse?) the saw in the same manner.

Thanks for this post and I'll be following it to see what kind of
recommendations we get.

Kirk