I have used a Poulan 3416 for several years. It has been a good homeowner saw. If you do your own service or have no ill feelings to use and toss it will get you by. The one year warranty is a joke around here as service centers are really not interested in working on them and are far and few in between with long waits. Mine has owed me nothing after the first tankful of gas. People like them or hate them. If I was to buy one today for the same use I would either go to the nearby Stihl dealer and buy one of those cheapo homeowner saws or to my local MTD dealer and buy a cheap Tanaka. When I moved here I did not know anyone or the locations of local dealers, so I bought hardware store stuff.