Question 070 stihl

[Ratman]

Hmmm not sure about your HP figures.
Think you'll find they have approximately the same HP. (0.1 HP)
The main difference is an 090 is torque with lower rpm, great on bars over 6'.
But the AV is crap, weighs the same as a tug boat and parts can only be bought in hens teeth.
Great saw but it's a DinoSaw.
Not to mention you can't legally take it to work.
Hobby saw.

How comes its not legal to take to work Rough?

[Rough Hewn]

How comes its not legal to take to work Rough?

It's a HSE thing.
Mainly the lack of chain brake on the earlier models, the crap AV, emissions
Etc
It's an outdated relic.
But if I'm honest,
I want one too.
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[outinthewood]

The HP figures are Stihls own but the max power figure for 090 is @ 6.500 rpm so take that as you like and like all figures open to a little massaging I'm sure.... Only the lack of a chain brake precludes you from taking it on to a commercial site. As I said I have four of them and the "G" has no AV as with the Contra "S" the early AV one is okish but the later AV is not that bad for the size of the thing. I would have cut fairly regular with one maybe 15 yrs ago but with the discovery of ported saws they now sit in the corner most of the time !

[Rough Hewn]

The HP figures are Stihls own but the max power figure for 090 is @ 6.500 rpm so take that as you like and like all figures open to a little massaging I'm sure.... Only the lack of a chain brake precludes you from taking it on to a commercial site. As I said I have four of them and the "G" has no AV as with the Contra "S" the early AV one is okish but the later AV is not that bad for the size of the thing. I would have cut fairly regular with one maybe 15 yrs ago but with the discovery of ported saws they now sit in the corner most of the time !

What were you cutting with 090s?
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[outinthewood]

Beech, Oak and I recall some of the biggest hardest Yew was prob the last time in real anger with 48" . The low revs and torque meant you could keep cutting through wire and nails within reason ! Now used for large hardwood root plates with 60" Thank goodness for ported saws !

[wyk]

Yay ported saws!

 

[Ratman]

Yay ported saws!
 

We NEED to see a video of that in motion!!! ???

[Darrin Turnbull]

17 hours ago, outinthewood said:

088/880 more power ??? It depends how you look at it , on paper the 090 has 13 hp the 088 8.5 hp . The saws deliver that power in a very different way but if you adjust the speed flap on the 090 it will walk all over a 088/880. I' ve run a 090 a lot  with bigish bars ( I have 4 of them) and I've owned several 088/880s and still have an 084 so I know the real difference or should I say understand the way they act ? For milling it's hard to beat the raw "power" of the 090 .

The sound of a 070/090 is real good.

 

[spudulike]

On ‎28‎/‎11‎/‎2018 at 13:00, wyk said:

Yay ported saws!

 

Ah, Nitrous Oxide, back to the drag racing days, thought about that one but is just one of those projects waiting for a rainy day! That saw also has a nice erection......Oh er

[Ratman]

Ah, Nitrous Oxide, back to the drag racing days, thought about that one but is just one of those projects waiting for a rainy day! That saw also has a nice erection......Oh er[emoji5]

Come on Spud...... make us climax [emoji6]?