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Recently I was visiting my friends in the QA department of Big W & I saw a petrol chainsaw. Well this reminded me that I had a pile of firewood I needed to get through at home & I mentioned this to one of my colleagues. To this, the guys in QA asked seeing I was going to be cutting some firewood, that I test the new Talon 35cc 12 inch petrol chainsaw. Well, I thought this would be a great opportunity & seeing as I have a Husqvarna 141 of my own, that I could do a serious product eval.

Well first thing is first & I had to read the instructions to make sure I used the right mix of fuel & that I new where everything belongs, then seeing as this was a new saw, I thought that I should make it an even fight & sharpen up the old husky ready for battle.

Then Once this was done, it was off to the wood heap & try to find several matching pairs of logs (4 pairs in total) so we could do some testing on as even ground as possible.

Well the results were as follows

It would be unfair to say that the Talon is a bad saw, in fact on a value for money, it did perform quite well. It was up against one of the best saws around in the Husky, & was also giving away 12.5% power & the blade on the Husky is 2 inches longer.

Other things noted were that I had to use more throttle on the smaller saw, which also made it use a bit more fuel (not measured) & also seemed to be working quite hard on the job.

My Verdict is that if you can afford the extra & have the work to justify the extra 150 odd dollars, get the Husky, but if  you are on a budget & are only cutting up a few logs each year, the Talon is very good value for money.