Buddy and I bought a cabin once, real nice forrest area. Absolutely beautiful country. Then out of nowhere these college kids started killing themselves all over our property! I met the girl of my dreams that weekend.
Had a month long job, was a laborer and me. We had to buck apart an absolutely ungodly amount of oversea shipping crates for an industrial plastic printer.
Was actually kind zen to just put ear protection on and go to town on them until the gas went out.
While at Frankfurt airport I was sitting around waiting and found a flyer about the airport, where it said that they reject about 4 chainsaws per year that people want to carry onto the airplane. As someone who had nail clippers rejected I found the thought process of people who try to get a motherfucking chainsaw into the plane so ridiculous that I still think about this all these years later.
I mean, it's not in a murder context but chainsaws can fuck themselves because I could never give the little piece of shit they gave me on the trail crew to stay running and you've never been more pissed off than having a pull start motor that doesn't fucking run.
Edit: I should add that most of the problem is I wasn't on the chainsaw crew, I was the head of the brush crew so they gave me the literal shitiest chainsaw they had in case I ran into an excuse for it. I wanted to throw it in the creek.
I cut and split about 3 cords of firewood to heat my house for the winter each year. I use a Husqvarna Rancher---I don't remember the exact model--with a 24" bar. The only bad experience I've had with it was the first year I was using it; the stock chain was a full complement chain, and it cut slooooooooooow. It was absolutely awful. As soon as I swapped out the chain to a skip tooth, it cut beautifully. (For what it's worth, skip tooth chains can be 'grabby', and are more likely to cause kickback. But they clear chips much more efficiently.)
It is a little underpowered; when I'm bucking logs more than 20" in diameter--which is about half the time--it tends to bog down. One of the larger Stihl saws would probably be better, but they're more than I can reasonably spend when I still don't have a log splitter.
I haven't had any issues. And, TBH, I'm kind of abusive to it; the most maintenance I do is running it dry before putting it away for the year, and sharpening the chain regularly.