2 days ago I bought a brand new stihl 192tc. Today on the way home from work I heard a bang, and saw my brand new saw bouncing down the road in my rearview mirror. That loud bang was my tailgate dropping, and the rest of the noises were cars swerving to miss my brand new saw bouncing down through the intersection. It couldn't of been one of my old beat up ones, no sir, it had to be the first one that I bought new in a long time. That will teach me, I should stick with buying old ones and let some one else put the first scratch in it. Luckily the saw is okay, short of a cracked handle and several scratches. It still runs good, not even broke in yet.
Dave
I'm sorry but I laughed my butt off when I read this. The way you said "bouncing down the road" and "cars swerving to miss my brand new saw" was just hilarious :D. But really, that's terrible. Isn't that the way things go sometimes? I feel your pain. At least it still runs though, I guess.
it's all good, laugh away, what else can you do. it's better that getting mad about it. I laughed about it too (an hour or two later)
Ya, I suppose your taking it in stride. Quite a story, my friend.
Lucky,real lucky. I use to have a stake body on my truck. I made a special box for it to ride in. Most times I would keep it in the cab. My truck did not lock so I kept a chain and a padlock and I would chain it to the metal rail under the seat. I live in a low crime area,but...... I even hated to put my saw on top of a pile of firewood. Just never know. I use to see alot of saws just in a back of a truck with no tail gate.
Sorry about your saw problems. I keep mine up front, near the cab, and run a strap through the handles.
Quote from: clww on January 09, 2013, 10:41:09 PM
Sorry about your saw problems. I keep mine up front, near the cab, and run a strap through the handles.
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Been there done that. I feel your pain. :o
I know how you feel Dave. I ran over my new magnum stihl with a tractor. Busted the covers all up but still runs good. ;D
I always had a post bolted across the box up behind the cab. I cut slots straight down in to the post length ways, i could carry 5 saws, 034's, 044's this way. Then i had a chain that i ran though to keep honest people honest.
One of the hardest things on a saw is laying in the pickup box.
I lost my big tool box the same way, what a mess tools all over the road :o >:(
Sometimes in the heat of the summer I set my saw down under the pickup to cool down. I thought I had ran it over before, but it was just my scabbard that I almost ran over. Who needs a scabbard? I can always wrap a t-shirt around the bar to keep the dirt out and cutters from getting banged up... and myself.
I have a cap on my truck, so that gave me apperantly a false sense of security.
I do love my chevys, but they all seem to have weak tailgate latches.
Dave
Don't travel the highways with my saws, but hav erun over my small Husky 340 twice once with my tractor and one with my ATV broke the handle both times.
We all learn(slowly) from our dumb mistakes keep you chin up!
Pete
Too bad there wasn't a camera following you. I seem to remember a very similar incident on a Stihl commercial years ago. Picked up and off to running right after the fall. :D
There are some really funny Stihl commercials. I like Stihl. :laugh:
I lost my big tool box the same way, what a mess tools all over the road :o >:(
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Hmmm, I found an SK 7/16" wrench with my Volkswagen tire. Was that yours? (still have it from about 30 years ago.)
Now you don't have to worry about getting that first scratch on your new saw. :snowball:
God Bless, Ward and Mary.
Yup I feel your pain ! Left the yard in a big rip and dumped all 3 of my saws down the road ! And yes 1 was my new 288 husk ! It wore the scars for a long time after ! Got out of the whole deal cheap though ......
I'm sorry to hear of your luck. That would just be horrible. I have a toolbox in the back of my pickup, and I put 5 eyebolts in it for anchor points (I know 5 is weird, I have 2 on either side, one high and one low. The fifth is on the passenger side, spaced just right to strap a stack of 5-gallon buckets in), and I put my saws down low and run a chain through the handles and padlock it to the 2 lower eyebolts. That way they don't go anywhere when I'm driving.
Hopefully it doesn't happen to you again, friend.
I suppose over the course of a year I might average two or more machines that get squashed by sitting behind a big truck or a brush chipper. Oh they flatten saws ,blowers you name it they squash it .
The worst I ever did was back over a tool box with a little dozer once .Still have the box with tools therein some place but it will take a cutting torch to retrieve them .
Now the funniest was ole Gypo Logger who would flatten them like a pancake then put the thing on flea bay for some outragious price .
Dave, I can relate to you about your pain. Went to do a job this summer, taking down a hard maple and a white pine. We got to the job and I took my saws out of the truck. Grabbed the 660 and took it to the work.
A while later I went to position the truck to pull a cable. As I was backing up I thought Gee I dont remember that stump :-\ and a hair to late I rembered what the "stump" was :embarassed:
After a new handle, tank, and side cover; and 325.00 :(, my 460 is ok and runs fine ::)
I can now look back and laugh ;D ;D ;D :D :D :D