I would sale a saw fire a part-timmer and go hunting for 4-weeks! lol Thats what I did and it was the best hunting season ever!
Congrats on your hunting season. Before a wife 8 years ago and three kids following that, I hunted plenty. Hunted a lot with my dad and a couple buddies back then. Not necessarily 4 weeks straight, but about 3 days a week throughout hunting season. I would typically kill 100 doves, 50 ducks, 100 geese, and 10 deer a year, not to mention crows and groundhogs and the upland hunt every once in a while. Used to shoot a ton of clays too. Used to ride 3,000+ miles a year too.
The cost of a saw isn't the reason I cannot go hunting as much anymore. Only went about 10 times waterfowling this past season and I really do not care for the solitary hunting of deer hunting anymore. The main reasons I have not gone as much is because after 40+ years of hunting my dad has lost interest in it, and I have a soon to be 6 year old, a soon to be 4 year old, and a 3 month old that I prefer to spend my time with. Now, my daughter has asked for a pink 22 and a pink bow, so it might be time to get back into hunting as she gets interested in it. She wants to go collect her own pretty duck feathers. My son asked about getting a boat to go fishing with, so might be getting back to fishing now too.
Selling a saw would hardly even pay for the gas required to go to the eastern shore to waterfowl hunt.
Like hunting, shooting, fishing, and cycling, I am cutting wood more as a hobby than anything else. Just something to do when I am not busy with work, and something to get me out of the house and hanging out with my dad and brothers. I think the epitome of all this wood cutting, splitting, and stacking was the other day when my soon to be 4 year old son was outside with me helping me run the splitter for 5 minutes. Yeah, we save a few bucks on our heating bill as a result, but if I did not have any down time with work, cutting wood would be really far down the list for hobby time unless my kids were involved with it.
I don't cut wood to make a living. Far from it. If I had an employee, he/she would be working in my office, not cutting wood, and he/she would be generating revenue through billable hours. If you are running a business right with employees, the employees should be able to run the business for you while you are on vacation most of the time. I hunted with a guy that owned a brick & block business and a cement business. He had two guys that managed them and he spent 200 days a year hunting and fishing.
Right now, I am a solo attorney/CPA with no employees because my wife and I are focused on taking care of the kids. No daycare or other childcare providers other than she, me, and occasionally my parents. Since I already had my practice based out of my house when I first met my wife and she has to work for a big box retailer or a university in her profession, we decided that I would scale back on my clientele when we had kids and I would take care of the kids on the days she had to work. She works 4 days a week and sometimes 3 days a week. I do my work around her schedule for the most part.
So, if money wasn't an issue, you could hunt as much as you wanted without having to sell a saw or get rid of an employee, you had space on the shelf for 4 saws, and you were loyal to Stihl, which 4 saws would you get?
One other thing. I am probably going to let my dad keep one of the saws at his place. Had another thread going about it and essentially I am going to let him take one of the 4 home. Guessing he is going to pick the 261 or 362. With my luck though, he'll take the 201.
In other words the saw is not the bottle neck...
