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Customer wanted the logs cut smaller and stacked a bit neater. Ignore the long ones, think those are getting chipped in a week or two, and the noodled quarters might be tipped as mostly rotten. Seemed a good time as any to do the comparason video between the 2511's. The clone has 3/8" full chisel while the Echo has a Stihl 1/4" pm3. Clone starts every pull - Echo only when I remember the stupid slide stop switch! Echo bogs a lot, I remeber it being better on the 3/8. VID-20260209-WA0026.mp4 Clone has a slightly larger cut VID-20260209-WA0027.mp4 I greatly prefer the 3/8FC chain and the clones stop switch, and I think with the bigger exhaust it has more power. The PM3 chain works but I wouldnt buy it again..

can't go wrong with most tbh, if it sounds good, holds oil, doesn't leak and digs! buy it. today I through a track for the first time in a few years I think, big boulders under leaf litter and fly tipping. luckily I now have a Dave, my right hand man who was a fitter for 15 years and operates everything, I ate lunch, he put the track on.

I can find Oak and DF at a Military Surplus described as "Docking Blocks".

But im not looking at unbraked trailers , all the trailers i have were braked

All of which is about the rubbers, not the idle. My 2010 261 is manual carb, I don't know if a 2015 saw would be manual or mtronic?

To be honest it'd be worth going to dealership about a new one , i just googled what it could tow .

Il have a look tomoz

Might be Biennial Cropping. Some varieties are more prone to it. One of ours does it, it's a bit annoying. Laxton’s Superb I think it is. Lovely big tasty apple, every two years!

Ours tend to go in phases, last year for us was a good crop... of windfalls given the storms that passed through, the year before about half as many

I'm not disagreeing however my 020T might be 20 years old, as far as I know all the rubbers are original, and she runs great on E10. Either way, making the swap to alkalte is not something to be done on your daily work saws without some preperation or a spare saw.

That's irrelevant a 110/defender weighs 2 tonne unladen so a 750kg unbraked chipper is way under half its weight. The C&U regulation only effects lighter vehicles that weigh under 1500kg unladen when towing an unbraked trailer

That applies on saws with some life behind them and is not the fault of the Aspen; it happens because chemicals in the pump fuel have dissolved out rubber softeners present when the saw was new; is my understanding.

A bit of both I expect.

The pump fuel is the problem . The alkylate fuel is just showing it up . Use a saw on alkylate fuel from the get go there will be no issues .The petrol removes the coating on the rubber components but keeps them supple because it is slowly attacking them . Alkylate fuel does not attack the rubber . But , if you have been using pump fuel for some time then switch to an alkylate fuel the rubber components turn brittle and fail because they are no longer being attacked . Change rubber components .

I worried about this and bought carb kit for the 261 in preparation, but so far not needed anything on any saws. Hedge trimmer had the fuel tank gland harden and start leaking so I changed that gland and the pipes but carbs been fine. Stihl flip cap o-rings have also needed changing, but they were getting a bit old and hard before the switch to Motomix anyway. YMMV as they say.

I don't think there's been a normal fruiting weather year for about 5 years, it's a lottery.

Swapping to aspen/alkalate requires replacing the rubbers. An arb I know did the switch and had to take 4 saws to the shop with a reasonable expense. However he also has an 880 that he doesnt use often and doesnt want the expense so still uses 2t just in that.

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Completely agree, They aren't a cheap vehicle to run anymore , for most work its an iveco daily tipper- they aren't cheap either. But I was shocked at pete b hilux being dire at fuel towing, really surprised me .

I've switched to Motomix a little while ago, my finding is all the manual tune saws (Stihl 150, 261, 461, two Dolmars) needed a tweak up on the idle. The autotune saws haven't (Stihl 201, 400).

Lambs liver, mash, greens and gravy!

I occasionally buy a used saw, and have a query on Aspen use specifically on 261's - I recall a few years back running one of the Stihls on 2 stroke mix for about 4 months from new before making the switch to alkalyte fuel, ( a decision I intended to try to stick with with all ground saw but didn't quite pan out that way) and it wasn't keen on it at all it at, a sod to start and ran really poorly and I switched it to 2 stroke again and used as back up only. Now have just bought a 2015 model that was on two stroke, vented the tank for a couple of days and put fresh Aspen in, now it won't idle - is this normal? I've not had this issue with Husqvarna's and need to know if the carb is actually the problem before deciding there is a case to return it (Ebay, so that is possible))

Fair enough, one can only relate ones personal experiences.

personally im thinking of a new jimney, not a older one. Cheers

Elm, if its good enough for locks