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[GTSSportCoupe]

I found a 36” fir in the bushes and it took me 7 mins to cut through with my Ms260 so I bought this 661. Takes about 10 seconds to cut through a 36” fir. Wasn’t cheap, 2500$

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Beast!!

 

[bikersmurf]

Beast!!

I thought my Stihl was powerful at 4.3 hp but slightly heavy at 13ish lbs.

That one is 7.2 hp and almost 17 lbs. There’ll definitely be a time and a place where it can’t be beat, but I’d not want to be schlepping it around all day.

 

[bikersmurf]

New plug, new needle bearing cage, and fresh gas… it’s alive. Starts easy and cuts well.

Still could be cleaned up a bit more.


And before cleaning…

 

[bikersmurf]

Loooooovvee. My Stihl 034

So far I think my favourite is my Shindaiwa 488. It’s powerful and only about 10 pounds… but I’ve not really used the Stihl other than bucking a 12” log into a few rounds.

The Stihl MS390 feels really long with a 24” bar. In total it’s about 3’ long… making it somewhat on the big side for trimming dead branches out of our trees.

 

[Rigpig]

New plug, new needle bearing cage, and fresh gas… it’s alive. Starts easy and cuts well.

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And before cleaning…
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Nice saw. Should spin that bar around and get more wear out of it.

 

[bikersmurf]

Nice saw. Should spin that bar around and get more wear out of it.

I will… at this point it has very little wear so I wasn’t too worried about it.

Higher priority is giving the carb settings a little tweak. Right now it’s idling a bit high and the clutch is starting to engage and turn the chain. I did slow it down a bit, but I didn’t have time to fully warm it up to adjust the carb. So that will have to wait for another day.

 

[bikersmurf]

It hasn’t seen anywhere near the hours that this saw of mine has seen…

Makes me wonder how much cleaner this would come.