Badger

With the price of shipping yes the parts become more expensive but how else are you going to get parts. I had China qoute me on a part and it was free but the shipping was $60. Tommy from Affordable shipped the part with shipping cost and it was a totall of $27 now this was a almost two week delivery from Texas to Canada but less than half the price of a free part from China. Those guys at Affordable keep us chinese tractor owners going with lots of free advice and with fair priceing so quit bitching.

If it a'int a Husky it a'int a chain saw. Seriously , up here on the mighty north west coast we use the same saw for felling as we use to limb them when down. As one previous post said Why bend over if you don't have to.To haul them out of the forest the Jinma 354  with a 20 Ft chain is all you need. The bigger the saw the more power. A nice size saw is the Husky 390 XP under 20 pounds and runs real good with low vibration ( lowers the risk of white knuckle  and fatigue). The real trick other than the size of your saw is to keep a sharp chain, sharpen at a minimum every tank full, after about an hour or so of cutting. Use a guide, after years working as a faller I was pretty accurate by eye , then I was in the chain saw shop one day  he had a small aluminium file guide that sits on the chain with two plastic covered rollers set at the correct height and all you need to do is keep the file flat on the rollers and parallel to the guide and you have the sharpest saw chain you will need in minutes once you become used to it and it only cost 5 bucks. Oh and don't forget to flat file the rakers every once in a while.