This could be a story for the fuckwits thread but it's not because (whilst I'm still a fuckwit) I wasn't treated like one.
We are blessed to be the home and carer's of my brother's aged chainsaw. Despite the fact that it dates from around 1993...this model of Husqvarna (455 Rancher) remains in production till this day. Think of it as the Nissan Skyline...
Powerful. Decent 20 inch bar. Runs well when it runs. Heavy. Exhausting. Seemingly cursed.
Honestly...every time I try to use it it...it crashes. Or I chuck it as far as I can throw it...or at least away from my feet.
Finally, I thought, this is dumb. A chainsaw should not defeat me. I tidyed it up. Squared the bar. Newly sharpened chain. Running sweet. Hooked it into a big old tree and it nailed it. YES. Set sail on the second cut...and it died like it had been stabbed.
I proceeded to behave like it was Giant's fault that I had fallen off the skinny.
When all good reason had returned, some actual fault finding happened. Turned out the ignition module had sparked its last.
Naturally, I turned to some random Chinese knockoff module that a bloke in Melbourne said I could have next week for a third of the price that the local dealer said I could have about the same time. For three times that. Plus freight...
It turned up. I fitted it. There was spark. And the mongrelfuggingcunovaovashitstirringbastardcunovacunt...still wouldn't start. The Lad cleverly figured this out and cleared the shed before his ears burned.
I gave up.
I walked the walk of shame.
I walked into the local small engine mechanic with my cursed chainsaw. This past morning.
I said I couldn't start it. It was beyond me.
He looked me in the eye.
He set the choke. He pressed the primer. And he let her rip.
That fucking thing started. He flooded the shop with smoke.
He said: You probably flooded it.
I thought: I'm a fucking joke...
"Bring it back if it gives you grief but yeah they are pricks of things..."
And I skulk right out the door...
And yet the LTIL is the nod I got from Old Mate before I left is that it happens to us all...
I still dead set despise that chainsaw...