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The balance is spot on. It balances on your middle finger. Honestly the best saw I have bought and one I wouldn't be without. (Probably would get rid of the thumb safety button on the new ones though)

Is it as nicely balanced as a 2511? Not like the Stihl 160 where the battery weight at the back ruined it.

Yes. It can happily cut with a 10" bar all in the wood. If your doing a lot of maximum size cuts though, probably just use a bigger saw. Pruning is where it excells though, light, powerful and no pull starting. The balance and weight is great, easy to one hand with ample of control. The back swept LH handle is very ergonomic. I have noticed newer ones have two dead man's handles/buttons. One now for the thumb which looks wank.

Yup, but if you do a lot of pruning the echo is the only saw to consider I think, and no other manufacturer has a competing model.

Happy days: Zack Polanski elected leader of the Green Party WWW.BBC.CO.UK London Assembly member Zack Polanski beats Green MPs Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns, who ran as joint candidates.

couple of rare ones on ebay at present, Dolmar KMS4 Rotary. 1k starting bid, [got that already] and Echo CS 610EVL £1500 start, [originally listed at £2500, and recently reduced] never found an echo twin that ran, coils usually failed.

Don’t ever change @Sviatoslav Tulin! You are irreplaceable.

Kram dear. I was more asking Josh and fancy since they have one but I appreciate the effort anyway. Bear in mind it’s not just size and weight though. It’s balance and feel. My particular need is for small-medium takedowns with a mix of cut and chuck and rigging. Almost all of my work for the last decade has been big and rigged and I’ve used a backhandle because my wrists are too gay for 201 sized top handles and I’ve not needed to cut and hold. I don’t even really want a 2511 sized top handle, hence hoping things like the pruning saws would do instead. I need to handle the M18 Milwaukee one really. I’m aware that if I had to stop dilly dallying and just buy one and move on, it would be a 2511 topper. @bigtreedon How did you get on with the Echo 2500 battery tophandle?

100% correct and pretty much my view. Strange how when you point out the anatomy of a white tail is pretty much the same as any of our native species it’s apparently a sign I know nothing of deer control 🤷‍♂️🤔. I’m not sure if I was confronted by any actual facts neither, just someone boasting about long range shots and cloverleaf groups when running home loads, nothing factual at all in reality. Next time I’m out I’ll stick to the safe option and leave the head/ear shots for those who apparently have the shooting prowess required. Wrong thread as well, those who want to boast about their shooting should maybe pop over to “ show us your guns”. Very surprised the site auditor hasn’t jumped in on the latter point, seeing as he’s watching my posts and timings and has a history of accusing people of “ diverting a thread “ could it be there’s some double standards on here 😂very much dependant on your political views.

I too have some experience of deer, Get a chest shot wrong by 2" and you will not be tracking it far, 50 yds or so, nothing an average dog couldn't find in heavy cover in under a minute. Get a Head shot wrong by 2" and the results are horrific. You will never track it and live in the knowledge it took a week to die. Why be clever? Just not worth it.

32 and u crying, it’s called burning out , time to change profession, short brake in to the UKRAINE obviously will help you realise how lucky you are and possibly resolve all snowflake problems you think you have! !!’…….

Possibly, but it shows that you know nothing about deer control apart from a quick troll across the Internet to find something to confirm your bias. You bring nothing, and when confronted by facts that contradict you all you do is divert in one way or another because you've been rumbled.

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We'll see.... floating voters have to be convinced to go against the grain and vote for a black woman. She does have some of the aggression needed to succeed though

Really? Apparently you didn't spend enough time, came back for a check and an edit: "Posted 14 hours ago (edited)"

Stihl MS261 and MS460. Both saws got clogged up and I had to flush out the tanks, lines and bar oil pumps inside the saws. I had done this before, so its not through lack of maintenance. Its the pretty standard ISO 100 stuff. I admit its a bit odd, they have been fine since I thinned out the bar oil.

just changed my car - no CD Player WTAF?!!!

Think she needs a bit of touching up, I've got my brush in hand ready for action. - Call me anytime

Good Morning Everyone.

Morning all, Couldn’t find the morning register by looking for “today’s posts”, had to do a search for it. Regular hedge then fell a dying Rowan.

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The 1 at the front, same machine model just 1 year newer but smoother on the tracks and hydraulics.

I would have said that it depends on the "waste". Ex FIL got trailer loads from one mill and it was off cuts and bark etc which was stored outside so was very wet. He didn't get the argument that he should have been paid to take that crap away! I got a bench to go on his old Fergie, got the thing working and collected long lengths from Belvoir sawmill and spent a while slicing these off, good exercise and I could put crap into a barrow and put it on the burn heap rather than log shed. It was too much effort for him and I wasn't there that much so we went back to the crap logs! The stuff was sold as "sawmill waste", not as "firewood" as this has to be below a certain moisture content to be sold!