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| Farmertec Holfforma info shared by a dealer | |
| By: Chainsawrepair Date: August 4, 2025, 8:26 am | |
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| Someone asking about parts etc. | |
| The stihl husqvarna saws are definitely the same as the OEMs. | |
| I saw a company history on one of Farmertec's web sites telling | |
| how they started out in 2008 making parts for Stihl and Husky as | |
| an OEM supplier for the China. | |
| As those parts came off patent or FT was granted rights to make, | |
| they started offering kits. That was 2012. | |
| You can buy a box full of every part you need to build your own | |
| saw. In 2017 they started with the complete saws. So yes, they | |
| are copies.....of 20 year old designs. | |
| All FT saws are at least one gen behind the OEMs and sometimes 2 | |
| gens like the FT 466 (MS460 clone) vs the STL 462 or FT 272 vs | |
| HUS 572. Just as you can buy brand new reproductions of old | |
| Mustangs, Broncos or Shelby Cobras you can now buy reproductions | |
| of old Stihl & Husky saws. And in the same way that the car | |
| reproductions are better than the originals, these saws are | |
| better than the originals. They have better materials in most | |
| cases and they are made on advanced equipment that is far | |
| superior to the tooling available back then to the OEMs. Stihl | |
| and Husky both have plants over there and the vast majority of | |
| their parts are made there for the whole world. I think Brazil | |
| is the #2 supplier country. | |
| I had a fella trade in a homeowner Husky for a bigger saw a | |
| couple weeks ago. Never been opened. Have a look at the label. | |
| Made in China. | |
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