Here's my update.
Awhile back I bought new belts for it, and new blades. Got them tracking good. Found that the belts it came with were cut so far out of square that the guy who cut it must have been using a speed square and marked the 45 degree side on accident. Edger was working..then we got to a wet day and I was told that after about 3 cuts, the belt tracking just took off, and it ate up the side of the new belt. I am not sure if it really took off as fast as the guy running it claimed it did, he misses the small things, see, so I think half of it was his fault and the other half the fact that there's not enough crown on the wheels for it to track properly. You get any bit of sawdust packed down in there and you have to stop and clean it or else the belt is off in la-la land.
Another pet peeve of mine is that the press down rollers have these bearings mounted backwards. They have it so that the bearing shoulder mount dooey is right directly in the way of a board when you run a wide board through. It will stop the board dead in its tracks. The pointer that they use to show what width the blades are at is pathetic. It's a piece of wire bolted to a piece of steel bolted to the chain. My clumsy worker bumps it all the dang time and knocks it around so much we have to shut the edger off and reset the indicator, as well as every time we take the tarp off in the morning.
They also put the emergency shut offs in bad spots we hit them all the time during regular use and have to fire it back up again (hopefully remembering to put it back to idle first). One top of that, they plumbed the wire for it so that any wide flitch that is coming through the edger will hit it and can rip that thing right off. The fuel can is a red gas can with a "Diesel Only" sticker on it, I thought that was funny. The idle is set from the factory too low, 900rpms, and it rattles like hell until you put it to what Perkins specifies (1450rpm idle). The guy who owned it before me didn't know this and it broke a weld on the shield before he had 50 hrs on it. The sight line to eye up the cut is not adjustable and if you have anything thicker than 2" don't work very well because it's only 2" from the table so you have to lift it out of the way and then put it back on the piece once it's there and then it's not as accurate even though it wasn't to begin with. The fence seems to be out of line and pushes the board as it leaves. The oil dipstick was on the wrong side, the fuel line had to be rerouted to change the fuel filter, the paint falls off if you breath on it too close, the handle to adjust the blades falls off no matter how tight you make it, and it's bulky and catches your clothing. On top of that, the thing is the most expensive edger in it's class on the market. And a big reason they sell them and their crappy dual tooth setters is because they bought out some other internet site so the people can only read rave reviews about it, say one thing bad and like our friend above me they're cut right off. If the companies were hung out to dry then they'd be more apt to have a better product. I don't hate the thing, it cuts edges off flitches, like I bought it for. We use it. I don't really run it much any more, my guy does. I let him enjoy the headaches that ensue. They paint them red to match the color of your face when you're running it. This is my consumer report, my opinion, everyone can have one, take it for what it's worth.