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    Pilchuck Rentals - delivery vid capture. modified cut plate.

    Pilchuck Rentals

    2.5(19 reviews)
    6.8 mi

    Solid five star service every time I have been there…read more I Purchased a Stihl chainsaw here I've purchased a Stihl backpack weed sprayer. Came in for a few smaller items, every visit has been friendly professional and excellent customer service. This is a family run business which is a real rare thing in today's world. The Marysville area is blessed to have them

    True Colors....PILCHUCK RENTALS and Owner Lance Brown , Marysville, WA...... BE WARNED of this…read moreplace! After 43 years in construction building everything from billion-dollar resorts and luxury high rises to small strip malls and everything in between as a Superintendent, and Manager for some of the largest General Contractors in North America I have learned a few things. One of those valuable truths is this: Smooth sailing doesn't show an individual's true colors and the same holds true for Contractor, Subcontractor or Suppliers etc. It's when things go wrong you learn their true colors. In the case of the latter, these true colors, good or bad, can always be tracked back to one chair. The captain of the ship, the CEO, President or Owner of the company sets the standard of care for the people / entities, customers he/she partners with in everyday and contractual dealings. This week I had the unfortunate experience of learning the "True Colors" of Pilchuck Rentals and their "Captain" Lance Brown. I will try to keep this brief and to the point and still get just the facts in. I rented a skidsteer loader and brush-cutter (US Mower QA60) from Pilchuck Rentals. The machine was delivered and the driver did a walk-around of their machine taking pictures and I did a video walk around...years of experience shows videos MUCH more effective. I used it for approximately 10 hours before the hydraulic pump / motor broke off the top of the cutter! I performed a post-event forensics on the machine and also viewed the delivery video. Pics and videos attached. One of the 4 bolts that held this high-torque motor on was missing prior to my using it. It was a rusted out hole with a broken stud inside. YES I missed seeing it at delivery. Never used one of these before and was excited to get going! There was also a "drilled and plugged" mounting hole on the other side of the flange. This is where a threaded insert was installed at an angle. (see figures) The top mounting plate corner had been cut out to accommodate this new hole location. This modification is not an approved fix per my discussion with the manufacturer's engineer at US Mower. I slid the motor back into it's operating position with the slot under the remaining bolt and it wobbles easily. this bots was red locktighted in so couldn't be turned. It was loose in my opinion when delivered. I called Pilchuck to report the issue and Lance, the owner, happened to answer the phone. I told him about the issue and he immediately started talking like it was my fault? I told him I had hit a rotted cedar stump in the middle of 14-16' high blackberries but nothing hard! I could pull parts of the stump off by hand it was so rotten. He stated...and restated 3 times to date, that the mower is not meant to hit stumps. I went to US mower's website and found that they are made to MAKE STUMPS. The website shows and states this machine is made for cutting up to 8" trees! There's also a video of them JUST cutting trees. So Lance is throwing out either uninformed or outright false statements. I drove down to the store and met Lance, introduced myself and gave a little background of my experience. I have been renting and responsibly using equipment over 40 years. Millions of dollars' worth over my career and never have checked all the motor mounts on what I rent! I showed him the pictures and he stated, again, that his guys would look at it and get back to me. Pilchuck has charged my card for the damage deposit and 2 hours of overtime because I used it for 10 hours. I called again today and Lance wouldn't talk to me. (Heard him in the background) and they gave me to someone else. He stated that "The Owner" will not refund the 300.00 and is using it to help pay for a new motor AND the reason is I told him I hit a stump. Also that I should have caught this missing bolt and modifications at delivery??? Also that the modified mounting must have been done by another customer...so they didn't see it? REALLY....they said this????!!! Where is the Service department sending these machines out when they come back with different colored bolt and a notch cut out of the plate on the critical mount on top of the potentially extremely dangerous machine?!?!?! The $300.00 is nothing....reatlly....the fact that this Owner of a local business would treat a returning customer this way is the issue. Being made to feel like a bad person is the issue. Seeing this local businessman have complete disregard for the facts, pictures, videos and still charging a customer out of greed, disrespect and complete disregard basic customer service and his customer's pocketbook is the issue....squeezing every penny out of a person's card he thinks he can get away with....is the issue. DANGEROUS. UNTRUSTWORTHY....UNPROFESSIONAL

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