.ECHO CS600 yes or!!!!!!

[banana]

Hi all. You guys were not keen on the Mitox saws with a two year warranty.

Got my eyes on a three week old

Echo Cs600.

Alternatives for similar money are 5 year old well used 372 xp

Brand new 353 husky

or two year old 357xp

What do you guys think?

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Hi all. You guys were not keen on the Mitox saws with a two year warranty.

Got my eyes on a three week old

Echo Cs600.

Alternatives for similar money are 5 year old well used 372 xp

Brand new 353 husky

or two year old 357xp

What do you guys think?

 

Got one, superb saw, read all about it here. Still cutting day in day out for 3 years, only needed new muffler but that's cos I crushed it!

 

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

 

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

 

They like em too!

 

Sweet sweet saw...

[banana]

The one i am looking at has a grey plastic top cover!!!!

[littlerob]

i havent got the cs600 but i do have 3 other echos saw one grass strimmer and one hedge cutter and i love them to bits havent had any problems with any of them touch wood and the grass strimmer is 8 years old and have done loads of work as the plastic bit that holds the cord have to had 9 replacements do to me wareing them out buy useing it 2 days a week all day from march to end of october and i havent even needed to change the spark plug my top handle is all grey dont worry about that

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

The one i am looking at has a grey plastic top cover!!!!

 

can you upload a pic or put a link?

[banana]

I have made a stuid error

its an efco 162

[Tractor62]

Unless you are planning on felling and cutting up some fairly large trees I'd deffinately go for the new 353 husky I bought one 3-4 months ago and with a 15" bar it's a great saw for coppicing sweet chestnut and most domestic garden trees it's been spot on even for larger trees with an 18" bar Id think the 353 would be quite up to the job. If a larger saw is what you need it may be worth looking at the Makita (dolmar rebadged) range as they seem to be a much under rated saw over here maybe because of the colour and that they can be bought from machine mart but they seem well priced and speced. I'll be looking at the 7300/7900 makita saws if I need a bigger saw in the future

Hope this helps

Tractor62