Do you have the dealer clean your chainsaw?

[dragoneggs]

"NaCl - Lye"?

NaCl is Sodium Chloride to me.
SALT!

Basically.

 

[Garandman]

Sorry, NaOH.

 

[Molalla1]

Sorry, NaOH.

Caustic soda . . .

 

[PILOON]

If U need the dealer to clean your saw then U should not own one!
Same goes for sharpening.

 

[dragoneggs]

If U need the dealer to clean your saw then U should not own one!
Same goes for sharpening.

Hard to argue that.

 

[John_Mc]

If U need the dealer to clean your saw then U should not own one!
Same goes for sharpening.

If that's how they want to spend their money, who are we to argue?

 

[dragoneggs]

If that's how they want to spend their money, who are we to argue?

I can see farming out sharpening... but the cleaning of your saw?

 

[Steve 3650]

If It's your time and your money then you should spend them [ time or money] doing what makes you happy.

 

[Ortimber]

I can see farming out sharpening... but the cleaning of your saw?

I suppose a good portion of the population doesn't wash their own car either.
While I can't imagine paying someone to clean my saw (or anything for that matter), how one spends their money is fine with me.

 

[ultrarunner]

Things have changed over the years when it comes to do it yourself or farm it out...

I never would have believed just how many people pay to have their cars washed...

Near the Hospital is a car wash and they are very busy and will drop off cars for Hospital employees/staff... from the front desk receptionist to the Docs they have a good business...

But then again, I have never paid to have someone change my oil, mow the lawn, wash the car, paint the house... etc...

I can see where cleaning after service has a market today.

 

[dragoneggs]

I suppose a good portion of the population doesn't wash their own car either.
While I can't imagine paying someone to clean my saw (or anything for that matter), how one spends their money is fine with me.

Of course that is the beauty of a free society and capitalism. I can see running your car through a car wash occasionally especially if you don't have the facilities at home... I do myself to save some time/convenience. But if you are DIYing around your property or others, seems like the simple maintaining of your tools is paramount if you own them. Major repairs, maintenance... I get it... have it done... especially if tools and time are not on your side.

 

[two_bit_score]

Of course that is the beauty of a free society and capitalism. I can see running your car through a car wash occasionally especially if you don't have the facilities at home... I do myself to save some time/convenience. But if you are DIYing around your property or others, seems like the simple maintaining of your tools is paramount if you own them. Major repairs, maintenance... I get it... have it done... especially if tools and time are not on your side.

I bill a lot more for my time than any shop I know that sharpens or cleans chain saws. I’m just too cheap to pay most of the time.

 

[CobyRupert]

I work with a guy from another culture that is based on class systems. It seems he feels it is very important to display, maintain/ elevate his "upper class" stature by hiring other "lower class" (menial labor) people to do what the rest of us would consider trivial things.
His idea of success, and self-esteem, is based on being in a position to be above manual labor and getting other people to serve him and do tasks, whereas "my culture" might take pride in learning how to do a new task and having a sense of accomplishment in doing hard labor.

I think its hard for one "school of thought" to understand the other.

......that's probably why we've nicknamed him "Little B*tch"

 

[xyz123]

:laughing: at that last sentence. :thumbsup:

Had a friend pay me to clean and go through a saw I sold him like 7-8 years ago last week or so.

I was like has it been in a flood or what with all the fine dirt on it.

 

[John_Mc]

I can see farming out sharpening... but the cleaning of your saw?

I don;t farm out either one, but I can sharpen a chain a whole lot faster than I can clean a saw. (I also sharpen frequently, and clean not frequently enough.)