Best Chain Saw I've ever owned!!!

[biggkidd]

If any of you need a small saw. I highly recommend the Echo 330T. Its just a small saw with a 14" bar. Light weight and super well balanced. Its meant to be a climbers saw. Cuts great one handed. Light enough that I have to find it in Nickoles hand every time I want to use it. It uses the same size file as my Echo 510 which makes it nice I don't have to keep up with multiple sharpeners. Has power enough that it goes through 10" trees like butter.

So far the only problem I have is I only have one of them.

Heres a link to it at home depot where I bought it.

www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?jspStoreDir=hdus&catalogId=10053&productId=100616235&navFlow=3&keyword=echo+330t&langId=-1&searchRedirect=echo+330t&storeId=10051&endecaDataBean=com.homedepot.sa.el.wc.catalog.beans.EndecaDataBean%403e2dbfa6&ddkey=Search

Larry

[quikduk]

Larry:

Your link didn't work...but is this the one?

Echo Arborist Chainsaw

I have been looking at that one. It is nice and is a little cheaper than the Stihl (which I like even better).

Stihl Arborist Chainsaw

...and this one is a little less expensive than the 200T due to being slightly smaller in displacement.

Stihl 192T

Ken

[linus69]

Ken I have the Stihl Arborist and it is one awesome chainsaw. Very light and agile and very powerful, it is my favorite chainsaw.

Paul

[3RRL]

I have a little top handle Solo 633 that I like.

[biggkidd]

Hey Ken,

Thanks for fixing up a link for us. For some reason I can't seem to remember how to do that right.

I'm glad someone has good luck with the stihl saws. Everyone I talk to around here seems to have electrical problems with them, at least the ones made in the last few years.

I would like to get another of the 330 Echos so Nickole and I both have one to use but next I need a big saw 75+cc. Then I just have to find someone who can lift it.

Larry

[tuffytractor]

Not that I mean to change the title of the thread to "what is the best Chainsaw you have ever owned" But my favorite all around chainsaw has been the Stihl 260. I've had it over 12 years, stihl going strong! ;D

www.stihlusa.com/chainsaws/MS260.html

[linus69]

As our mornings are now down in the 50`s it is a reminder I have to start thinking about using these again to prep some of mother natures fuel for winter.





Paul

[bracabric]

I have a 7 year old Poulan 2150 that has done lots of hard work and dispite Poulan´s warning I have often worked it all day with no ill effect (to the saw ) but the time has come to get something bigger as the Poulan at 16" is just to small to cut through some of the mega Pine and Oak we have and are begining to cut. We have lots of Chinese saws here cheap and chearfull but even the shop owner I go to avoids the issue if I ask him about them so, I have looked at Stihl (made in Brasil) and Husqvarna and the PoulanPro and yet, and yet. As luck would have it, I was in a hire shop a week or so ago and to my delight there was a small Echo which I did not think were available in Chile. I hade a good experience with Echo 25 odd years ago in the UK and am thinking about buying the 59cc Echo CS-600P with either a 20" or 24" chain. I can buy the Stihl for about US$80 less than the Echo and the Husquvarna for about the same money and I hear good and bad about them both, but I never hear anything bad about the Echo and feel it,s the one for me. Anyone have any views on this ? Oh I forgot we also have from Japan a Shindaiwa ? thats a bit cheaper but I know nothing of them.
Dick
PS I shall keep the little poulan for lighter work.
PPS What´s "Bucking"

[Rich Waugh]

I like Stihl saws the best, followed by Jonsered and then Echo. Poulan saws are now made mostly for the homeowner market rather than pros. Likewise Husqvarna, from what I hear. Take it with a grain of salt.

Bucking means cutting a tree into manageable sections after it is felled and limbed. Nice to have a big long bar for this since you're often dealing with a felled tree that is resting on some remaining limbs and need the extra reach. Big bucking saws have handles (and sometimes powerheads) on both ends of the bar.

[linus69]

I have to side with Rich on this one and cast my vote for Stihl, I have four of them all bought used off Ebay and at Police Auctions and I can`t say enough about them. They are very pricey in the US though, Echo on the other hand is quite cheap around here and are good for the homeowner for occasional use. I`ve never heard anything good about chinese chainsaws.

[studor]

+1 on the Stihl - I have an MS 290 that has been great. My friend has a Little Echo from HD -- around here they are expensive for what you get -OK saw but throw away the chain (low kickback)and buy a new one. I also have two Chinese 52 cc chainsaws - quality is crap but with a little fiddling they cut wood very well. I paid less than $100 for the two of them so even if I throw away the saw and keep the bar and blades I am probably ahead. Like most things Chinese the saws look like they were made from about a twenty five year old Stihl pattern. I use them as "backup" saws and for jobs like cutting logs in the water that I don't want to use my "good" chainsaws for.

[bracabric]

Thanks all and also for the education re; Bucking, I shall think about it a little longer and then lay a modest amount of cash on the counter of the selected company and ask them if they want to give me a Chain saw for it or should I take it away again !
Dick

[bracabric]

Well, I went and did it, after thinking about it and taking into account your advise I plumped for the Echo CP600. As I indicated I had a good experience with Echo many years ago and they are made in Japan ( well at least mine is) The Husquevana seems to have a mixed reception, some think it´s good and others not. Stihls that you get in the USA I suspect are made in Germany or perhaps a satalite factory in the USA, the ones we get here are made in Brasil and there are one or two quality issues.
Well I put it togeather and fueled it up , pressed the decompressor button and it coughed on the third pull, I put in the choke pulled again and we were in business. We have a couple of felled pine trees hear that are some 45¨ across and quite hard and............. it went through them like a hot knife through Butter, little or no vibration and well balanced and (so far) I am well pleased.
Dick
PS Got it at the price I wanted as well !

[Rich Waugh]

Sounds like you made out fine on the deal, Dick! Have fun with it and be careful, of course.

[bracabric]

Thanks Rich
Dick