MS650 2011 Never cut wood

[Rough Hewn]

Ever seen a stihl catalogue from circa 2000?
There’s so many saws!
Every 3-5cc.
There’s also the 640 too.
Stihl have massively reduced their range of pro saws.
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46 minutes ago, Rough Hewn said:

Ever seen a stihl catalogue from circa 2000?
There’s so many saws!
Every 3-5cc.
There’s also the 640 too.
Stihl have massively reduced their range of pro saws.

What was the point of three saws with very limited difference in hp in the same range? What market did they hope to cover doing so? 

[Paddy1000111]

7 hours ago, Macpherson said:

I got to take exception to that, when I was looking for a 660 a 650 came up so I bought it, there's ef all wrong with it.

 

Ok so it's 84.9 cc  and 6.4 hp  compared to the 660 at 91.6 cc and 7.1 hp

So 6.7 cc down and 0.7 hp less....so what ?

 

I've used it for milling and the odd big tree for a few years now, I mill with both a 25" and 36" set up...absolutely no bother, the hp difference or advantage between it and the 660 could easily be lost by either a poorly maintained saw or slightly dull chain or both.

 

I've no idea why they made it as well as the 660 and if I had any kind of top end issue I'd change it up for sure but on the other hand if I had a reason to strip it down I recon it would be real easy to gain the 0.7hp or more with a few minor tweaks, 

 

And to the op if it's any help, I paid £500 for it in good nick and as with many of these larger saws it's fairly easy to see that it hadn't done much work, cheers.

Sorry, I didn't mean the saw was a gimmick, I meant the fact that it used the same base as a 660 and was "upgradable". No doubt it's a good saw!

Edited December 26, 2020 by Paddy1000111

[Rough Hewn]

What was the point of three saws with very limited difference in hp in the same range? What market did they hope to cover doing so? 

No idea mate.
They did it with nearly all the ranges.
042,44,46,48 etc
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[Khriss]

1 hour ago, Rough Hewn said:

Ever seen a stihl catalogue from circa 2000?
There’s so many saws!
Every 3-5cc.
There’s also the 640 too.
Stihl have massively reduced their range of pro saws.

Just after realising they would have to provide the spares for them. Its always baffled me why Stihl did this. They range was inexplicable 2x home owner saws x3 pro saws plus top handle and x3 brushcutters would do it.  K

[Khriss]

(.... Maybe its a German thing  🙄) 

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Just after realising they would have to provide the spares for them. Its always baffled me why Stihl did this. They range was inexplicable 2x home owner saws x3 pro saws plus top handle and x3 brushcutters would do it.  K

It would certainly help my wallet.... I still can’t stop buying chainsaws I don’t really need.....

[Khriss]

Think the Stihls I've used been 020/201(shite) , 036, 046 and 066  ( used an 088 once!) cannot think why you would keep redesigning everything. K

[Rough Hewn]

Think the Stihls I've used been 020/201(shite) , 036, 046 and 066  ( used an 088 once!) cannot think why you would keep redesigning everything. K

Because modern saws are better than old ones. (Mostly)
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Because modern saws are better than old ones. (Mostly)
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I’d like to learn to port saws and have a Collection of working classics like bucking billy ray [emoji23] some of those old husky’s and mcCullochs he runs are great [emoji106]