We sold Sachs-Dolmar back in the late 60s. We were primarily a Homelite dealer, but also took on some odd-balls like Sachs, HOE, Stihl, etc. I remember the Homelite rep. coming in an scolding my boss - telling him that "those German saws" would never catch on and parts support would never be as good as Homelite. Wasn't too long after that Homelite stopped making saws worth buying. Seems around the time when the XL12s went from blue to red, it was all over for Homelite. I've still got several Stihls and Homelites from that first dealership. Several of the old Stihls have governors that use a wind-vane to jam the choke closed if the saw ran too fast. Got a couple of 040s that use .404 chain with .063 gauge drive-tangs and bars.
I've got several older large saws - but I pretty much regard them as boat-anchors. I've got a two-cylinder McCulloch, a huge, two-man saw with a Homelite powerhead and the rest made by Reed-Prentice It has a five-foot bar on it. Also several articulating Mall saws, some Homelite geardrives with 1/2" chain, etc. They are fun to jerk around with, but extremely heavy and slow cutting.
I am going to look for an older spare saw like my Stihl 045 Super. An 056 or an 056 Super are the same saws with different name-tags. Stihl played a lot of games with saw names.
With looking at newer stuff - I'm going to have to try a few saws out. The size - i.e. the ccs or cubic inches probably doesn't tell the whole story. One example is my Stihl 041 Super. It is 72 ccs. but does not cut as fast as several of my cheap but newer Poulan 55 cc saws that I bought at yard-sales.
From what I've heard and read the past few days - I think I'm going to get an older large Stihl and fix it up for spare - with a 30" bar on it. And I'm also going to take a chance and buy a new Dolmar/Makita. Just ordered one online for $500. Makita DCS640120 with a 20" 3/8" chain and 64cc. I read that over in Europe it's very popular and they downsized it for sale in the US. That is, they stuck a smaller jug and piston on it - and it's usually a 79 cc saw overseas. Supposed to be a very good saw - we'll see. One plus is - it uses the same chains as my Stihl saws - 20" chain is 72 link and .050 gauge. It's $150 cheaper than an equal sized Husky or Stihl professional saw - and hopefully, built just as good if not better.
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