Poulan Pro Chainsaws

The PR5020 is the saw people buy when they want 50cc and a 20-inch bar for the least money on the shelf — and mostly, it delivers exactly that bargain and nothing more. Under the purple plastic sits Husqvarna-group OEM hardware (Poulan Pro is Husqvarna's value brand), so the bones are more legitimate than the price suggests, and owners who feed it fresh premix report years of adequate weekend service. The gripes are the value-tier classics: the carb is famously intolerant of stale fuel, starting when cold is a wrestling match, at 17 pounds ready-to-cut it's heavier than saws costing three times more, and when something breaks, the repair quote frequently exceeds the saw's value. Pricing swings wildly — Lowe's lists it around $360 and then runs clearances under $100 — so what it's 'worth' depends entirely on the week you catch it. At a deep-discount price it's a genuinely defensible firewood starter; at list, an Echo CS-4920 is a far better saw.