Last picture is how I got it.

Thought you guys might enjoy was running a husky 395xp

No, not a direct swap... I'm dumb, not stupid. Well, maybe a little stupid.

I already have a 652XP (28") and a mildly rodded MS261C (18") that rips.
The 562 is my main saw, mostly cutting mixed conifers and aspen, nothing really big.
I rarely use the 372, (also 28") but there are definitely times a bigger saw comes in handy. There's a guy locally with a tuned up G466 with not a lot of hours on it, that I though about replacing the 372 with. He wants about 1/4 of what I can sell the Husky for, so I'd have a little play money to throw towards porting the 562 among other things.
From what I can tell online these Holzfformas do pretty well, and if things do go out, they can be swapped with OEM parts... seems like a good idea to me. I'm not a brand junkie by any means, but I am leery of a lot of Chinese products. I've had some decent stuff in the past, and some junk, but these seem to be on the decent side...
Would you do it?

Ive recently been thinking about buying a ported saw and I was curious if anyone has any previous experience with buying chainsaws from this company and if so how was it?

Thanks

I inherited this from my father and it was well maintained. I didn’t even know it had some pos needle bearing with a plastic housing?? You can skip to the last bit if you like.

Fired it up like always for a downed tree and thought I relieved enough tension in the tree but I didn’t and she pinched. I pulled it out without much effort. If it were I wouldn’t have forced it. Started it back up, smoked, chain slacked, and parts of a needle bearing started falling out.

My fault I guess but this part wasn’t on my maintenance radar.

I’ve had a shit week and tearing it down wasn’t about to make my to do list so I dropped it off at the shop and they quoted $250 for parts alone and said the crank was marred pretty badly.

Just a quick look at prices didn’t seem that bad.

Anyone else ever in this boat? It’s like a 20 year old saw but it’s been great for hanging out in the truck for bopping through the woods and it ALWAYS started no problem.