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My dad's 1987 chainsaw outcut my new one, and I finally get why
Last weekend I helped my dad clear a fallen oak off his driveway in Asheville, and he handed me his old Stihl 028 from 1987 while he grabbed the newer saw he got maybe 4 years back. I figured the old one would bog down and die, but it fired on the third pull and chewed through an 18 inch trunk like nothing. The new saw stalled twice and needed a bar adjustment before we were halfway done. Afterward he said something that stuck with me, that his saw was built when a guy could still fix it himself with a screwdriver and a plug wrench. I looked it up later and you can still get every part for that 028, all these years on, while my buddy's 3 year old saw is already waiting on a discontinued coil. It made me think about how much of what we call cheap gear is really just gear that gets thrown away on purpose. So now I'm wondering, how many of you are still running tools from the 80s or 90s, and what finally made you stop replacing them?
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annajenkins19d ago
Tbh my grandpa's old push mower from like 1979 still starts on the first pull and my mom bought a new one last summer that already won't start. Drives me nuts. There's a guy down the road who fixes small engines out of his garage and he says half his business is stuff people bought in the last five years.
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