Stihl ms400

[Stubby]

You know , double felling " dawgs " , high top filters and wide chip throwing clutch covers  and full wrap handles are all great when it is appropriate but some times i think its a bit like  , well , wearing your Husqvarna braces to the arb show .

Edited July 13, 2021 by Stubby

[doobin]

On a tangent I know, but if Westcoast do a bark box for the 400 it would be well worth getting. I fitted one to my 462 and it was a noticeable difference. Pulls a 28" happily in hardwood.

 

I'd love to try a 400, but I fear it would sit 'too between' my Echo 501SX and the MS462. The Echo is on 16" picco and really flies. Anything much larger I'm happy to swing the greater weight of the MS462.

 

Might buy one anyway though.... can never have enough saws.

Edited July 13, 2021 by doobin

[doobin]

2 minutes ago, Stubby said:

You know , double felling " dawgs " , high top filters and wide chip throwing clutch covers  and full wrap handles are all great when it is appropriate but some times i think its a bit like  , well , wearing your Husqvarna bracers to the arb show .

They are pretty superflous in British hardwoods, I'd agree.

[woodwizzard]

Just handy when you are buttressing up big softwoods and the right hand side of the saw is against the tree.

[Stubby]

16 minutes ago, woodwizzard said:

Just handy when you are buttressing up big softwoods and the right hand side of the saw is against the tree.

Oh yes . I have all of the above on one or two saws but it seems that its now compulsory . no harm in it I suppose . 

[Stubby]

I had full skip chains full wrap handles , double dawgs , high top filters and high flow clutch covers back in the 90s . This was just because i knew a couple of Canadian brothers who were " west coast " loggers and they used to send me stuff . I used to get people saying " whats that all about " when they looked at the big saw . Some times I feel its just fashion when peeps put it all on a 560 . I don't care really . Just an observation . 

[MattyF]

Just handy when you are buttressing up big softwoods and the right hand side of the saw is against the tree.

Pretty handy for tearing huge holes in your £300 pfanners too.

[Moose McAlpine]

3 hours ago, Stubby said:

You know , double felling " dawgs " , high top filters and wide chip throwing clutch covers  and full wrap handles are all great when it is appropriate but some times i think its a bit like  , well , wearing your Husqvarna braces to the arb show .

 

Next you'll have idiots doing all that to a saw that just sits on a shelf!

 

 

Oh, wait..

[Khriss]

.... well- wider shelf   ???  K

[Moose McAlpine]

10 hours ago, Khriss said:

.... well- wider shelf   ???  K

 

Mmmm.. for more display saws.

 

(I do miss using them, it's a shame having them all sat on a shelf drained down and unused.)

 

Just for Stubby, another job in progress. 😂