Autel makes tools that mechanics use to diagnose car problems. The tools can help find issues in systems like sensors and safety features, and they’re designed to work in a technician workflow.
Pico Technology makes diagnostic test tools for mechanics. Their PicoScope oscilloscopes help you look at electrical signals so you can spot problems in sensors and wiring.
An oscilloscope is a tool that shows the shape of an electrical signal over time. That helps a mechanic confirm whether a sensor or wire is behaving correctly while the car is running.
TPMS service is anything needed to make the car’s tire-pressure sensors work correctly. After a tire change, the system often needs to be updated so it knows the new sensor IDs.
ADOS is an acronym used in automotive diagnostics for certain advanced, procedure-based work. The key takeaway is that it’s tied to more complex systems than just checking engine codes.
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Relapse is when someone starts using drugs again after trying to stop. It can be especially risky because the body may not be used to the drug anymore, so the same dose can hit harder than before.
Fentanyl is a powerful painkiller that can be dangerous in small amounts. If someone relapses after stopping, their body may not handle it the same way anymore, increasing the risk.
Tolerance means your body gets used to a drug. If you stop for a while, that “used to it” effect can fade, so taking the same amount again can be much riskier.
EVs and hybrids have a lot more high-voltage electricity than regular cars. Because of that, shops need different tools and safety steps to figure out what’s wrong and confirm repairs are correct.
Pico Technologies sells EV diagnostic tools made for working on high-voltage systems safely. The idea is to help technicians test and troubleshoot EVs with step-by-step guidance.
High-voltage system analysis refers to diagnosing issues in an EV’s battery, power electronics, and related wiring using appropriate test methods. Installation testing typically means verifying that repairs or component replacements were installed correctly and that the system is safe and functioning as intended.
TPMS is the system that tells your car when a tire’s pressure is wrong. If you just had tires changed, the car may need to “relearn” the sensors so the warning goes away.
Advanced safety technologies are the car’s “help” systems—like sensors and cameras that watch the road. If something gets serviced, those systems may need careful checking so they keep working the way they’re supposed to.
Validating repairs means making sure the fix really worked. Instead of just clearing a code, the shop checks the car’s behavior and the system data to confirm the problem is gone.
OEM procedures are the manufacturer’s instructions for how to diagnose and fix a problem. Using them helps avoid “half fixes” that might clear a light temporarily but don’t actually solve the underlying issue.
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Independent REN shops
This sounds like a group/network for independent repair shops. The idea is to connect shops that want fair pay and steady work, so technicians can focus on doing the job well.
Concept
arranging for real help
If you’re stuck on a car repair, it’s smart to get help instead of guessing. You can ask other people who’ve done the same kind of work, or find training that fills the gap.
Concept
coached through the repair
Coaching through a repair means someone walks you through what to check and how to do it. Instead of trial-and-error, you follow a proven approach.
Concept
resources, skills, knowledge
The idea here is to learn the right information so you can handle similar problems later. It’s not just about finishing one repair—it’s about getting better at diagnosing and fixing cars.
Concept
virtual classes
Virtual classes are online training sessions. They can help you learn new repair and diagnostic skills when you can’t get to a classroom.
They’re talking about a network of car-repair podcasts and related info. It’s basically a big library of learning material for diagnosing and fixing problems.
The hosts use a “fish vs. fishing” analogy to describe a key learning approach: instead of just getting an immediate answer, you want guidance that teaches you how to solve the problem yourself. In automotive troubleshooting, that means learning the process—diagnostic steps, test selection, and interpretation—so you can handle future issues.
Mount Rushmore usually means “the most important people.” Here, the host is using it like a fun way to talk about their biggest influences, even if they’re not car stuff.
The host’s question frames “best chainsaws” as a choice among manufacturers rather than a specific model or spec. That matters because brand ownership, manufacturing changes, and parts availability can influence real-world performance and service.
Husqvarna makes outdoor power tools, especially chainsaws. The hosts are saying that after some companies were bought and merged, the saws can feel similar even if the colors or branding differ.
Electrolux AB is a company that, according to the hosts, acquired and merged brands in the chainsaw world. When companies merge, the products can end up being more similar than you’d expect.
Dolmar is a chainsaw brand. The hosts are saying Makita bought Dolmar, which can mean the saws may be made or supported differently than people assume.
Echo is another outdoor power equipment brand, including chainsaws. The host is basically naming it as one of the major options people should think about.
Term
bucket saws
A “bucket saw” is a chainsaw used by tree services while working from a lift or bucket. The speaker is saying that’s mostly what they’ve seen in their experience.
Top-handle chainsaws are built for control when cutting in awkward positions, like in tree work. The speaker is saying the saws they saw were the kind arborists use.
Stihl is a well-known chainsaw brand. The speaker is saying Stihl and Husqvarna are the two brands they most commonly see.
Brand
John's Rude 2051
The speaker mentions a specific chainsaw model they have a soft spot for, but the name is garbled in the transcript. It sounds like they’re talking about a particular brand/model they’d choose if they needed more chainsaws.
Air injection means the machine adds extra fresh air where it can help the engine burn fuel more efficiently. Here, Husqvarna is using a tube to move cleaner air into the intake area so the air filter doesn’t get dirty as fast.
A supercharger is a device that forces more air into the engine so it can make more power. They’re saying this system feels similar in concept, but it’s much smaller and not like a full-on supercharger.
“Boost” is extra pressure that helps push more air into the engine. They’re saying this setup doesn’t create big boost numbers, but it still adds some pressure to help keep things cleaner.
The air filter housing is the part that holds the air filter and directs air into the engine. If it’s sealed and pressurized, dirt is less likely to get sucked in, so the filter stays cleaner longer.
If you remove the air cleaner parts, the engine can pull in dirt differently. They’re saying this design relies on the air cleaner/housing being in place to work as intended.
Centrifugal force is the “outward” effect you feel when something spins. In this setup, the spinning motion helps fling dirt/debris away so cleaner air gets pulled in for the filter.
Air-filter life is how long you can go before the air filter gets too dirty. This design helps keep the filter cleaner, so workers don’t have to stop as often to clean it.
Rebadged means it’s basically the same product, just sold with a different name. That can affect what parts you can buy and how you compare it to other models.
Brand
John Sird
This sounds like a chainsaw brand name, but the transcript may have misheard it. The point is that the speaker’s saw is related to another brand, and they’re comparing performance.
Porting refers to modifying the intake/exhaust passages in an engine to improve airflow and performance. In small two-stroke engines (common in chainsaws), porting can increase power, but it’s typically done carefully because it can affect reliability and drivability.
“Anti vibe” means the saw is designed to reduce shaking and vibration. Less vibration helps your hands feel better during longer cuts.
Term
John's 0601
They’re talking about a specific chainsaw model (“John’s 0601”) that became important when it showed up in the U.S. market. The host is using it to explain which saws were popular and why.
Term
028
“028” is a chainsaw model number the host says was very popular. They’re using it as an example of which saws people commonly used.
Term
032
“032” is another chainsaw model number the host says was extremely popular. It’s part of their rundown of which models lots of people had.
Term
3120 XP
“3120 XP” is a chainsaw model name/number the host says some people want mentioned. It’s being brought up as a specific, well-known option.
Term
880 or 088
“880 or 088” are chainsaw model numbers the host is tossing out as ones people might expect him to mention. It’s part of a list of popular saws.
A portable sawmill is a machine setup you can bring to where the trees are. Instead of cutting wood in a factory, it cuts logs into boards right at the location.
Term
0660
“0660” sounds like a specific saw model number people like for this kind of work. The speaker is basically saying that particular model is popular because it gets the job done.
Term
500i
“500i” is another specific saw model the speaker says is popular. They’re comparing model choices based on what size/strength is enough for the job.
Term
372
“372” is another saw model number mentioned as being popular. The main takeaway is that people choose a saw that’s strong enough, but not unnecessarily large.
Term
572
“572” is another saw model number the speaker lists as popular. They’re basically talking about picking the right saw for the work so you don’t overspend or overbuy.
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bit by a friend of my wife and my friend of ours, and that's not like a mafia reference,
that we met, it's really not that long ago, a couple of years ago.
My wife had worked with her on-again, off-again, significant other, the father of her three
kids, and he was in the substance use world, working also as a kind of a counselor.
Unfortunately, he relapsed.
If you've listened to many of the episodes about substance use disorder or addiction,
I say something and it's rough.
It's rough to say because you can unwittingly license people and that sucks.
Unfortunately, it's true.
Nobody wants to go through a recovery.
Nobody wants to live in recovery and work programs and relapse.
It's just hard to really talk about relapse realistically without feeling like you're
enabling somebody and out.
There's some truths that have to be dealt with.
One is if you relapse, you're not starting over from square one.
That's a joke.
That's the worst thing I've ever heard in my life, like falling off the wagon, now
you're starting all over.
If you were in recovery for a day, you were in recovery for a day.
That day isn't gone.
If you were in recovery for a few months, for a few years, whatever, all that work,
all of that does not just evaporate.
That's one thing.
You're not starting over.
Another harsh truth is with some of the substances being used, depending on what
that is, and I think you can all kind of get there.
Relapse can be deadly.
Part of it is what's in the stuff nowadays, particularly fentanyl.
The other thing is just if you've been using for some time, you develop
quite the resistance, if you will.
There are many examples of people who've been using certain substances.
Maybe opioids will pick on where their daily intake or not even daily, just some
of the doses they're taking that are enough to kill large animals.
And that's not kidding.
And I don't know if it's necessarily something anyone feels good about.
I think it's a lot of times they're not even looking to get high, if you
will, they're just looking to feel normal.
Imagine that.
So finally, you've had enough.
You go into recovery and usually start working your program, all that.
And time goes by.
We don't have to come up with this scenario, but it gets to the point where
for whatever reason, you've arrived at a situation where you're now going
to use again.
I don't know how aware and maybe even cognizant you will be when
you're in that situation.
But if you are and I cannot urge you enough to try not to use every resource
you can not to, but if you do and you can be aware, just don't go back to
the same dose you were using the last time you used, use a fraction, a fraction
of it, you know, see what I mean?
Like that's rough to say that.
But people are dying because one, the stuff they're getting is
dosed with usually fentanyl.
And then the other thing is that you go back to what you know.
And unfortunately, now it's an overdose.
And that's what happened to this gentleman.
The real unfortunate part is he had twins with this friend of ours
and a daughter that's very similar age to our youngest.
And after it happened, honestly, even before, even before it happened,
my wife was kind of reaching out to him and her to just try to hang out
a little bit and, you know, because kids at the same age, you know,
we didn't have babies like that.
But we're all in the kind of the similar age group, stuff like that.
And he unfortunately overdoses and passes away, leaving her with three
kids, two newborn twins.
And my wife reached out to her.
I don't know, it just kind of started out a little bit of hanging out,
a little bit of babysitting, and now it's a full blown friendship.
The reason I bring this all up, the reason this is, you know,
in my mind episode worthy is she's a single mom.
And don't get me wrong, I don't think she's all alone.
I think she has a lot of help, but I think she's overwhelmed.
Who wouldn't be, right?
I mean, come on, but full time job and kids to raise, especially two
little ones with at least no consistent daily nightly help with
them taking care of them.
They're now, you know, toddlers.
It's a lot.
They're active when they're not your kids.
They're great.
They're fun.
But for her, yeah, it's hard, right?
It sounds like I'm delaying here or beating her on the bush.
And maybe I am, but it's not on purpose.
She really rejects being called strong because in her mind, she's
drowning or feels like she's drowning.
This could go down a different road, different discussion, but I guess
I really don't want to.
That would be a much better conversation to have with Margaret
or even Danielle on that we could go down that road at a different time.
I want to focus on this perception of strength in her mind when she's
told she's so strong, being reassured and rejecting it is this idea
that being strong is having it all together.
Being strong is being able to do all the things.
I can't disagree more.
It doesn't have to be like a contest.
It doesn't have to be the we talk about the trauma Olympics.
This isn't so much that.
But this is almost like the definition Olympics of what defines strong.
Her case, she feels it's somebody would be able to spin all the plates,
keep them all spinning, keep everybody happy, pay the bills, work,
get by on a few hours of sleep and have some sort of a social life.
Get out there and some, I guess, self care time, which I don't discount.
Like that's extremely important.
But you got to be able to afford it.
Her her chosen self care is golf and something that she and my wife
and I go do regularly or I guess semi regularly that takes money.
It takes time, right?
Nine holes still takes some time.
And you got the gear and the greens fees and all that.
And it adds up.
It can be a stressor.
But I find people that hold on by their fingertips.
Strong, like insanely strong.
I mean, there's a movie kind of big surprise.
This just popped into my head.
I wish to have this better fleshed out.
But there's a movie with Kevin Costner and Ashton Koucher called The Guardian.
It's about rescue swimmers in Alaska for I thought initially when I watched it,
I thought it was with the PJs, but it's really the Coast Guard Coast Guard rescue
swimmers. And there's just a scene where Ashton Koucher is just like a superstar
swimmer, he was going to go to college for swimming, maybe even the Olympics.
And life events happen.
I don't want to give away the plot, but he goes into the Coast Guard to become
a rescue swimmer where the Kevin Costner character, who is generally accepted
as the greatest ever, who holds many, many records in the Coast Guard for swimming
and what not for rescue swimmer training.
These records are being destroyed by Ashton Koucher's character.
And he's got a little bit of a ego and chip on his shoulder.
Understandably, young.
He's sitting at the local hangout, a bar in the bartender owner of the bar.
Older lady who has a really brilliant monologue, if you will, about getting old.
And I highly recommend watching the movie, if only for that.
And this part where she's kind of you want to talk like impressive feats.
Here, I have one.
And during a rescue, Kevin Costner's character is pulling somebody out of
the water up into the helicopter, winch, electric winch gives out.
And he's left dangling, holding on by hand.
One hand holding the other hand or two hands of a sailor or somebody survivor.
And it's a long trip back to base.
He holds on the whole time and does
damage to his hands, his fingers, tendons all torn up, all wrecked.
He held on through all that pain.
Well, is that strong?
I mean, that sounds pretty freaking strong.
Just gritting through it.
I understand that's a fictitious situation.
Maybe it's based off an actual event or loosely based or slightly exaggerated.
I don't know. It's not unrealistic, I guess.
People do some amazing things.
So is that strong to hold on through all of it to keep going?
Or is what strong have been not only hold on, but then kind of, I don't know,
wind your hand up in that braided cable until you ended up close enough to the
helicopter entrance to the side door to lift that person in.
That would have been pretty strong, too.
Physically strong, holding on to nothing either.
That's strength and will and all the things in life.
If you're holding on, just not willing to give up
and just keep doing what you need to do to keep as many of the plates spinning as
you can, is that not strong, too?
I think it is.
I don't think it has to be more strong or whoever just powers through and
they keep everything spinning with little to no effort.
It's just it ain't no thing.
They just do it.
That can be strong, too.
If we're thinking about the shop and your shop is whatever,
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The economy shift, you know, the big splurge or bump we all got from covid's
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But doing what you need to do to keep things going, keep the doors open,
keep the employees fed, if you will, keep the paychecks clearing and paying
your bills, too, like just eking it out.
That's pretty darn strong.
It isn't just strong to through all the conditions, just continually
finding a way to be successful.
That's not nothing either, but eking it out and holding on long enough
to figure out what needs to be done.
That's pretty badass.
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I think this is kind of implied in a few episodes, but a very recent episode I
did with Carm at Vision under the Remarkable Results Radio banner or podcast.
Asking for help is not a weakness.
In many, many cases, especially in our profession.
But I think most, I guess I was going to say a male dominated,
but I don't think it matters.
I think it's just people have a hard time asking for help in general,
regardless of the type of help, because they don't want to show weakness.
They think it's weak.
And yet how much strength do you have to demonstrate?
What do you have to do to finally be able to in good conscience ask for help?
And I guess I don't want to say in good conscience, like now you.
OK, you deserve help.
You've reached a point where now you're OK asking for it.
You probably should have long before, right?
I think that's the argument is you should have been able to ask sooner.
Should, I suppose, pretty judgy.
But again, it's this perception asking for help is a weakness.
And I'm not talking about people that ask for help on every freaking car
they drive in on every social media group or call tech support,
like barely get the car through the door and on the hoist.
And they're already calling like, oh, what do you think is wrong with this?
That's not what I'm talking about.
I am talking about real help, not abusing it,
but you legitimately need help recognizing it and then asking for it.
That is a lot of strength.
There's a lot of strength involved with that.
The whole point of all this is just this perception of what's strong.
And for somebody who is by, I think, categorically strong and just able to
endure and kind of do what needs to be done, that's a lot of strength involved.
And to not be able to hear it or accept it or want to hear it or believe it,
to me, is a way of a misdefinition of what it means to be strong.
And I also see it in our profession when it comes to help with the business.
This is not doing well and asking for help.
Again, I don't know if I necessarily mean just like reaching out to the masses,
but arranging for real help.
And again, that might be in some cases the masses, the groups,
the professional groups, but also just other friends, shop owners, coaches,
even your own people having a meeting and asking your people like, hey,
you know, I'm looking for ideas because they're not dumb either, right?
They know what the schedule looks like or they can tell by your demeanor.
Sometimes asking them, maybe they got some terrific ideas and it's back to
everybody working together to achieve that common goal of, I presume,
maximizing ethical profit and in turn, the shop, I would like to believe
I could be full of it, is going to try to benefit the employees as much as they can,
regardless of what everyone else is doing around them.
That's not what dictates what they do.
They're going to do as much as they can.
And that might be way more than everybody else.
And then now you're helping to set the market in a very good way.
And same with employees or technical specialists or mechanical specialists,
not just asking a co-worker, which I guess I don't want to sound dismissive of,
but asking for help on I don't understand how to do this.
And that help might be getting coached through the repair, but maybe more
importantly, coached on where to go get the resources,
where to go to get the skills, where to go to get the knowledge,
and then following through and getting it.
And maybe that's going to a class, maybe that's going to an instructor
like class, maybe that's going to some virtual classes,
maybe that's some subscriptions.
You know, our sponsors, all three of them have content out there.
Very, very useful content.
Autel has their own channel or multiple channels, to be quite honest.
Pico Technology has multiple channels with tons of information in the software
itself and independent wrench jobs has a growing amount of resources,
information, and there's so many more.
Like a remarkable results or the automotive repair podcast network,
that site has an unbelievable amount of information on it.
So reaching out for help, I suppose it's that adage, right?
You want somebody to toss you a fish or do you want them to show you how to
fish or tell you where to go get a nice pole, where to go get bait,
maybe some advice on hooks or lures and then maybe a good guide or where you would
get some instruction on where to fish, where you get the information to know
where to fish, when to fish, how to fish.
You're going to go after this type in this stream.
Well, then you really need to be fly fishing.
But if you're going to go here and want this type of fish and you're
going to be trolling, then you better should be using this type of a pole
and this kind of a technique and all this.
And oh, you know, don't do any snagging or whatever.
Or in this case, you got to go a noodle.
I don't know. You know what I mean?
Like do you want to know how so that next time you can do it on your own and
you have information to pass on to someone down the road that needs it?
Or do you want somebody to just get you through and keep getting you through?
Getting you through the real strength is
asking for that help and able to accept it the way it comes.
Right. And doing something about it.
So I hope you get what I'm saying.
I guess I'd like to say give credit where credit's due.
And a lot of times that means you need to give yourself some credit
and recognize when it is due that there are times you really couldn't kind of
pat yourself on the back or, I don't know, at least smile on the inside.
Like I'm weathering this storm.
I'm going to come out on the other end.
OK, maybe a little worse for wear, but I'm going to make it or more optimistic.
Depending on the situation, it doesn't always have to be so frigging dire.
And I do sincerely hope that, you know, you can give yourself credit where credit's due.
It's great to give other people credit where it's due and we should be
almost anal about it, but also don't hesitate to give yourself some credit
because I'm sure you deserve it.
And I am getting a lot of messages about the Mount Rushmore stuff.
It's crazy. Thank you.
I'm glad you enjoy it.
So maybe in closing, I will do another Mount Rushmore.
I get it.
This is an automotive podcast, but some of these Mount Rushmores aren't automotive related.
This one I get has to do with my history, with my history of growing up
on a farm and my grandparents owning a farm implement dealership,
namely for this Mount Rushmore, the sales and service of outdoor forestry
and garden equipment, namely, well, I better not name them.
Not yet.
I've got multiple inquiries about what I think are the best chainsaws.
My struggle with the question is, what do you mean by that?
Are we talking about the manufacturers?
Because if I have to go based off that,
the makers of the manufacturers of the power equipment,
I would have rattled off not too long ago.
John's Rude, or some of you may say John's Red.
And if you're Swedish, you'd say Jens Rude.
John's Rude, Husqvarna, Steel and then Dolmar.
I don't know that John's Rude is really around anymore.
I think it might technically be now called Red Max.
I don't know if it's really around anymore.
And honestly, when it got bought up by Electrolux AB and combined with Husqvarna,
there really wasn't much difference between the two other than color.
John's Rude being red and black, Husqvarna being orange.
Some of them orange and white, some of them orange and gray.
Maybe I have to combine them.
So it'd be definitely Husqvarna Steel.
Dolmar was bought up by Makita.
And I don't know if they even really make that saw anymore, those saws.
And because we're with four and to keep Brian Pollock off my back,
I have to put Echo on there.
The reason I hesitate with Echo is my experience of Echo is extremely limited.
The Echoes that we dealt with were from Arborist companies
or tree services that use the bucket saws or the Arborist saws,
the top handles, if you will.
That's really all we saw.
It really was.
And so I have very, very little to compare to.
And I do not know any loggers that use Echo.
I don't. Maybe there are.
I don't know any.
Overwhelmingly, they're Husqvarna and Steel.
One time John's Rude, but really Husqvarna and Steel dominate.
And then Dolmar was a heavy hitter back in the day.
So that would be my four
makers of chainsaws, Husqvarna, Steel, Echo, and then Dolmar slash Makita.
Unless I find out otherwise that Makita and Dolmar, I know Dolmar is bought up.
But if Makita is really not making anything, I don't know who I would have as my backup.
I don't think Olympic is around anymore.
They were a big time saw back in the day.
We'll have to go with those.
And then with the chainsaw models, that's really rough because how do you
compare what are we going to be doing with them?
I have a very, very weak spot for the John's.
So if we're doing a rush more of chainsaws, it's very difficult for me not to
call go with the John's Rude 2051.
It was the first turbo.
Husqvarna calls it air injection, where they're pulling the fresh air
through the recoil housing through a tube off the flywheel.
So the flywheel kind of acts a little bit like a supercharger, not a lot.
They're not running five PSI a boost,
but it does pressurize the air filter housing area.
So that is somewhat sealed.
That's super tight.
Again, it's not a big boost.
But if you run them with the air cleaners off or the air cleaner housing off,
they run different.
There is a small amount of boost and the tube kind of hugs the flywheel.
Idea being that the centrifugal force, if you will, inertia, if we want to be,
you know, technically accurate, will result in the dirt being thrown or debris
in the air being thrown kind of away from the flywheel.
So the tube really only pulls in or gets fresh cleaner air pushed into it.
And therefore the air filter air cleaner stays cleaner much longer.
In many cases, loggers would have to clean air filters every time they sharpen or
fueled up sharpened chains or replace the chain.
A lot of them would go all day and not have to touch the air filter.
So it made a big difference.
And that was really the first saw on the market that I know of that did it.
I've heard rumors of like a pioneer saw that did.
I didn't see it. I don't know about it.
That would be number one in my book just
and also as the first chain saw, my grandparents gave me for helping out one
summer and the thing ripped.
We used to cut wood with a coworker of my dad's.
We burned wood for heat.
He had a fireplace that they burned a fair bit of wood, but he had a little
kind of a pool on chainsaw older so it wasn't technically.
I'm also a rebadged Husqvarna or
John Sird and he wanted to try my saw out and I had a very difficult time getting it
back from him after that.
God, I don't know if you've ever had a chance to run one, but that fricking steel
500 I what the hell that thing rips, I think rips.
It's fuel injected in all and I get it when stuff breaks.
It's expensive. The saw itself is expensive.
I think brand new off the shelf.
They're like 13, 1400 bucks for a I don't even think it's 80 CCs.
So you're plunking on a good chunk of change.
But that thing rips.
The power to weight ratio is it's really, really insane.
After that, man, I don't know how not to put on.
It would have started out like the three seventy two XP
Husqvarna, but now it's probably the five seventy two.
Again, the power to write ratios are insane.
It'll keep up with that five hundred.
I've you do a little bit of massaging of things.
It'll out cut it a little bit of porting, nothing over the top.
They scream, God, they scream.
And then after that, I mean, one of the mainstays of most loggers,
it's the 066, 660, 660 one steel.
Power to weight for a pretty large saw is as good as anything.
They were just a heck of a saw.
They still are.
That would be my rush more and I could change it.
It's hurting my feelings, not mentioning like the Husqvarna 65
because everybody had one.
You know what I mean?
Like they're a little bit before my time.
There's so many out in circulation.
And they were just so robust and, you know, by today's standards,
they cut slow and they're heavy and the anti vibe isn't so great.
But they served a large segment of chainsaw users very well for a long time.
It also hurts my feelings not to put like the John's
0601 on there because that was probably the real introduction of John's
0601 entered into the U.S. market before that, the heavy hitters were like
home light and probably Mac and McCullough, they were probably the heavy hitters back
then, Pioneer, the 0601 is probably what really got them rolling in the United States,
especially the Midwest.
I don't know how popular John's 0601 was outside of the Midwest, to be
quite honest and still, I mean, the 028 was very popular.
So is the 032 that was really, really popular.
I know some people out there really want me to say 3120 XP and 880 or 088.
They are monstrous, monstrous saws.
I don't know anyone that ever really used them out in the woods.
They're usually using them for the portable sawmills or setting up a sawmill.
That's where they would use them.
I don't know too many that were actually out there in the woods with one.
Usually they're trying to use the smallest saw that can get it done.
That's why the 0660 is so popular.
That's why the 500i is so popular.
That's why the 372 was so popular and the 572.
So, yeah, that's what I'm going to go with.
And you ask me tomorrow or really in about 15 minutes, I'll probably change them
such as life.
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About this episode
A personal, heartfelt discussion turns into a broader lesson on resilience and asking for help. Matt recounts a friend’s relapse and fatal overdose—highlighting that recovery doesn’t “reset to zero,” fentanyl risk, and how returning to old doses can be deadly. He connects that to a single mom’s refusal to be labeled “strong,” arguing strength isn’t having it all together or spinning plates effortlessly. Instead, real strength is recognizing limits, getting support, and building resources—especially in the shop. The episode also pivots into EV diagnostics sponsor talk and ends with a fun “chainsaw mount rushmore” segment.
In this episode, Matt Fanslow reflects on what it really means to be strong. Prompted by the story of a young mother navigating grief, single parenthood, and overwhelming responsibility after the loss of her children’s father to overdose, the conversation explores relapse, recovery, endurance, and the often-misunderstood nature of strength. Matt argues that strength is not having everything under control. Sometimes strength looks like hanging on by your fingertips, asking for help, or simply making it through the day without quitting.
From there, the episode ties those ideas back to the automotive repair world, where asking for help is too often seen as weakness instead of wisdom. Whether it is a shop owner trying to keep the doors open, or a technical specialist seeking knowledge and resources to grow, real strength often shows up as humility, persistence, and the willingness to reach out.
And because no Matt Fanslow episode stays in one lane forever, the show closes with a delightfully detailed Mount Rushmore discussion on chainsaw brands and models, pulled from Matt’s background around farms, equipment, and forestry gear.
What’s Inside This Episode
Matt talks candidly about relapse and the dangerous myth that a person in recovery “starts over” after a setback. He reflects on the realities of substance use disorder, the deadly risk of returning to former dosage levels after time in recovery, and the heartbreak that addiction leaves behind for families.
The larger theme centers on strength: how people often define it incorrectly, and how endurance, survival, and asking for help deserve far more respect than they usually get. That idea then gets applied to repair shops, business struggles, personal growth, and professional development.
The episode wraps with a fun listener-driven Mount Rushmore on chainsaws, including discussion of Husqvarna, Stihl, Dolmar, Echo, and a few favorite classic models.
Key Themes
Strength is not the same thing as having it all together.
Relapse does not erase the work already done in recovery.
Asking for help is often an act of strength, not weakness.
In repair shops, growth often depends on seeking coaching, resources, and better information.
Sometimes surviving a hard season is its own kind of success.
Chainsaw opinions are apparently serious business.
Memorable Points
Matt pushes back hard on the idea that a relapse means someone is “back to square one.”
He frames endurance itself as strength, especially when life feels like barely keeping the plates spinning.
He draws a connection between personal struggle and shop life, especially when it comes to pride, survival, and the reluctance to ask for help.
He makes the case that the best help is not always somebody handing over the answer, but showing someone how to build skill, access resources, and become more capable the next time.
The episode closes with an unexpectedly passionate breakdown of chainsaw brands, legacy models, and why certain saws still hold legendary status.
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