Which SMALL saw?

[Topher Martyn]

Our Stihl 260 has just bitten the dust.

 

I'm looking to replace with similar. I want a small, light, saw for clearing brash, cutting up limbs on the ground, light felling etc. Maximum of 16" bar. I've already got a MS200T to use up above, an old 039, and a 660. I recently bought a 441, which is a smashing saw, and highly recommended, but total over kill when you're just knocking a branch around to fit into the chipper.

 

But all of these are completely inappropriate for the countless jobs where you are going through 3" branches or stems, like the lump of lime thats just blown out by my gate (its windy today).

 

I fail to see the point in lugging 5+kgs around for such little jobs, and have even wondered about buying one of the saws that Stihl list as for 'property maintenance. Much more bothered about getting the right bit of kit than the best price.

 

Suggestions?

[morten]

The ideal saw for you would be the MS200 (with back handle) it weighs in at 3.8 kg and is built to last (like the 200T and 260). But for reasons unknown to mny, Stihl have chosen not to offer the MS200 for sale in the UK (it is available in most other European countries: Germany, Scandinavia countries, ...) Sägen für die Forstwirtschaft | STIHL

 

I guess I'd go for another MS260, if I was you, or consider a Husqvarna 346 XP. It has better fuel economy, and better accelleration IMO.

[sean1212]

you can get the ms 200 back handle in the uk a mate of mine has got one hes uses it for carving

[josharb87]

261, the new much improved 260

[josharb87]

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/chainsaws/18026-ms-261-reveiw.html

[treequip]

You can buy a replacement barrel and piston from eBay for about seventy quid.

 

A simple job to do and it will fix up yer clapped out old saw like a new un.

[josharb87]

in refrence the MS200, pulling a 16" bar IME feels underpowered

[Stihl4Life.DK]

ms 260/261 great saws.....

[liamjordan]

im sure the back handle ms200 used to be in the stihl catalogue? last years one maybe?

[rorymoon]

It did but I think it's the 192 in this years.