Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This is an amazing value for a simple powerful easy and quiet chainsaw. No muss no fuss, like I had with the 3 gas-powered chainsaws still in my garage that I can't afford to repair. All those 1-star ratings? About the chain popping off, or plastic fittings, or worked then didn't work? . . . I'm pretty sure those people didn't read and follow the instructions . Mine arrived with the chain off, which was annoying at first -- so I read the instructions, took the casing apart, figured out how it works, and then paid attention to it while I was using it. Turns out it was a good thing after all, because it forced me to learn about it -- or I would have just plugged it in, fired it up, and maybe had some of those problems. I'm 6 trees in over 3 days, they are 14-16" swamp maples, about 600 cuts or so, and i'm just now thinking about sharpening the chain for the first time. I have taken off the casing twice, to clean out the oily sawdust -- and the chain only popped off once, when I didn't check the tension every 20 cuts or so like I had been doing. It's also important to keep the oil chamber filled, but you can tell when it runs dry, the sound changes. So read the instructions, don't rush, and let the saw do it's job -- just like the instrutions say.