Echo cs 600

[AndyGG]

Have been reading up the echo for abit and was wondering does anybody have experiance with it. everything thing i have read about this mid range 60-70cc saw sounds better and better everytime. Have echo produced a contender for this range

http://www.forestryjournal.co.uk/prodaug09a.htm

Edited September 14, 2010 by AndyGG
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[TimberCutterDartmoor]

I have one

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/chainsaws/9992-hell-echo-here.html

 

Doesn't suit big bars; I'd say 16" max.

[AndyGG]

Cheers for the link dude. Was almost sold on it except for the 16'' bar max advice. Was hoping 18'' would of been a good bar for it.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

18" maybe never tried it. But then I've always been a 15/16" er for 60cc machines

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Update; been using this Echo in the woods for a while now and it really is a hell of a saw; just goes lovely and is proving totally tough and reliable. It really does go!

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Still using the echo - can't put it down! What a totally undiscovered beauty.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

As per my other 349 posts about this saw

 

Absolutely bonkers saw. Should be banned it's so fast; unfair advantage. Even better, no-one believes me

[silky fox]

i believe you...after reading your guess the object thread i immediatly went to the echo site to read up on this saw..one review said,"if you only ever get one saw...get this one!":thumbup:

[littlerob]

i run 3 echo chainsaw a hedge trimmer and a grass strimmer and can vouch for all off them never had a single problem from any of my echo never need any parts grass strimmer is now 10 years old the chainsaws are 6 years old and the hedge trimmer is 3 years old i find them as good if not far off stihl or husky

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

I think the CS-510 is being well received as well. Prior to this tho, Echos' were darn well built but no production saw; heavy, shakey and slow. The 600 is perhaps a gram or two over but it more than makes up for it in point and shoot power, speed and balance; it a fantastic to handle. Is incredibly smooth too but without feeling mushy; an MS441 is smooth but mushy if you what I mean whereas the 600 is silky but firm and direct.

 

I have to shove it into the woodpile every morning and every night into oversize timber because 2 years on I still can't believe it is so good. I wouldn't consider any other machine in this class. The 560xp is perhaps a little torquier but then the 610 is out now and supposed to be even better than my 600. If you think a 560xp is smooth well it's sandpaper compared to the 600 which is like satin.