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#Post#: 38412--------------------------------------------------
Who's who in chainsaws?
By: brettl Date: April 11, 2014, 1:40 am
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I'm just curious because I enjoy the history of our saw
companies. Who all is part of the Husky/Poulan conglomerate? Add
as much history as you do or don't want to on that one.
What about Echo? Are they part of it. By the way, Cut started an
awesome Echo history post on the Echo thread.
Some companies I don't know much if anything about: Don't see
companies like Solo and Efco in my neck of the woods. Not many
Partner saws. What's their history? A buddy of mine had an
Olympic saw, said it was a beast. That was 20 years ago. Have
John Deer saws always been made by someone else?
The Makita/Dolmar deal surprised me. Dolmar isn't big in Kansas
but I thought their bread and butter were the loggers and
suspected they were in other countries what Stihls are here. The
Makita merger seems an obvious attempt to market to the masses.
Makes perfect sense but it's a shame to see one of the original
German saw makers merge.
Well, like I said I'm just curious. I like to keep up just
because and there seem to have been a lot of mergers in the last
decade or so. Thanks
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Re: Who's who in chainsaws?
By: RoyM Date: April 11, 2014, 9:09 am
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Husky/Jonsered/Poulan/McCulloch/Redmax/Partner are under the
Electrolux AB umbrella. Echo/Shindaiwa is Japanese and not part
of the group. Solo (Germany) and Efco (Italy) are bit players
at least over here.
Dolmar was purchased by Makita from Sachs in the late 80's. The
brand was recently spun off as a separate entity and is now a
stand alone brand. Excellent product although a limited product
range and factory support needs improvement. They really need a
well stocked north American warehouse for the distributors to
draw from.
John Deere saws have been made by Remington and Echo.
#Post#: 38423--------------------------------------------------
Re: Who's who in chainsaws?
By: 660magnum Date: April 11, 2014, 9:22 am
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John Deere were also made by Efco before they went with the
Stihl name brand and became Stihl dealers in the USA..
#Post#: 38424--------------------------------------------------
Re: Who's who in chainsaws?
By: HolmenTree Date: April 11, 2014, 10:01 am
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I can't remember Efco but I did see the twin cylinder Echo
CST-610 EVL wearing the John Deere colors.
Great little saw BTW, I demoed it in the mid '80's. My
assumption was it wasn't destined to be a great pro production
saw, but probably would make one of the best weekend firewooders
out there.
#Post#: 38446--------------------------------------------------
Re: Who's who in chainsaws?
By: brettl Date: April 11, 2014, 8:50 pm
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RoyM, do you mean that the red Dolmar is no longer? Just in
Makita blue now?
660, I had no idea Stihl had ever been connected with anyone
else. How were Efco and John Deer a part of them? Cool
information guys.
#Post#: 38452--------------------------------------------------
Re: Who's who in chainsaws?
By: RoyM Date: April 11, 2014, 10:10 pm
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Makita still has the blue saws, Dolmar has gone back to red.
It's like the difference between Pontiac and Chev.
Efco was never connected to Stihl. They made some models under
the J-D badge, now J-D dealers are selling Stihl who to their
credit never re badged. The independent Stihl dealers are not
happy, they need to supply top drawer service to keep the
customers from going green. The farm equipment dealers view
saws as a necessary evil to keep customers in the store. Do they
want to spend time selling a 250 dollar saw or a 250,000 dollar
tractor?
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Re: Who's who in chainsaws?
By: brettl Date: April 13, 2014, 9:54 pm
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I see your point. Even though we're in the Wheat State here, I
can only recall one Stihl/JD dealer. It's in Kingman, KS,
roughly 45 miles from the city here. The rest of the Stihl
dealerships I've seen in Wichita and the surrounding area cater
to cutting and landscaping equipment. No doubt this will be very
different away from the "big city", I just haven't taken notice
I guess. I'm glad you brought that up though. Here in the city
you'd never guess there's a JD/Stihl connection.
#Post#: 38546--------------------------------------------------
Re: Who's who in chainsaws?
By: Fish Date: April 14, 2014, 10:01 am
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Of course their were a few J D saws that were Homelites, when
Deere bought them out and they dropped Echo.
#Post#: 38547--------------------------------------------------
Re: Who's who in chainsaws?
By: 660magnum Date: April 14, 2014, 10:07 am
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I have a John Deere - Homelight weed whacker
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Re: Who's who in chainsaws?
By: brettl Date: April 14, 2014, 7:20 pm
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So Echo and Homelite were one in the same for a while?
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