Yeah, tools like to work. Leave them sitting and they get sulky.
Last time I complained about a hard starting pull, my mechanic happily said that I had good compression. I think that saw was the one I then broke the pull string on and had to replace. I do have to say that replacing the broken string made the saw a lot easier to start. BTW the trick with replacing the string in that saw was to wind up the "rewind" mechanism and let it suck the new string in on the roller. Really easy!