550xp or 560xp?

[hedgesparrow]

just a qestion as i thought of having the heated handle version. if you are starting and stopping does the handle still get warm. as its to do with the flywheel turning that warms it up true. i get white finger and they say heated handles reduce this.

[Big J]

Fair enough - I've yet to really try them, but I am lucky to rarely suffer from cold hands once I'm working. I just use a good pair of insulated gripper type gloves with a waterproof palm and fingers.

 

It's the extra weight and cost that puts me off - I had a play with the foreman foresters 357xpg and it did seem a good bit heavier than the standard 357.

[Reddog]

Fair enough - I've yet to really try them, but I am lucky to rarely suffer from cold hands once I'm working. I just use a good pair of insulated gripper type gloves with a waterproof palm and fingers.

 

Consider your self lucky. My hands sweat and make the waterproof gloves wet from the inside getting cold. Also with heated I can run a lighter glove so no bulky feeling.

 

 

 

just a qestion as i thought of having the heated handle version. if you are starting and stopping does the handle still get warm. as its to do with the flywheel turning that warms it up true. i get white finger and they say heated handles reduce this.

 

My 346 yes, my 372 warm yes but not as much.

Edited February 11, 2013 by Reddog

[Eddy_t]

Fair enough - I've yet to really try them, but I am lucky to rarely suffer from cold hands once I'm working. I just use a good pair of insulated gripper type gloves with a waterproof palm and fingers.

 

It's the extra weight and cost that puts me off - I had a play with the foreman foresters 357xpg and it did seem a good bit heavier than the standard 357.

 

Weight isn't an issue, as I said my other groundsaw is a 385xp, which weighs about 10kg, and due to not bothering with PPE, medical issues and smoking, I now have poor circulation in my hands and in the cold they seize, given that I'm only 22 and most of my joints are knackered, any help is a big help!

[JimM]

No weight issues with the 550xpg. Every bit as agile as my 346

 

I wear warm gripper gloves too, but once they get wet they are miserable in the cold. The heated handles make quite a difference and you go back to concentrating about how you're using the saw and not the fact that your hands are cold.

[G'day Spruce]

In general there is about 200g difference between having heated handles and not!! I've never really noticed the extra 200g while working, well worth it for less than half a lb in weight gain.

[David Dobedoe]

The hard the saw works the more the handles are heated. Big difference between tick over where there is little heat and working hard where there is lots. The handles loose heat quite quickly in cold wet conditions even when the saw is left ticking over.

[Riggerbear]

I've had a try of a 560 and was very impressed but the guy who I work with most days has just brought a 555 and I'm equally impressed with that. We get a little obsessed with having a XP model as it's the done thing but don't overlook the 555.

[Eddy_t]

So, was gonna get the 550, but it didn't seem to have the go of the 346, as for the 560, Jesus what a saw!! Cost me £100 more!

 

 

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[G'day Spruce]

So, was gonna get the 550, but it didn't seem to have the go of the 346, as for the 560, Jesus what a saw!! Cost me £100 more!

 

 

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