Choice of two ?

[peatff]

wrote this and now forgot its name its a jap machine and red and black. he uses them all the time and his last one lasted 2 years 3 days before going bang so got his money back

 

Tanaka or Shindaiwa are Japanese made saws both with a good name, don't know about spares backup though.

[treesap]

Tbf mate, it's almost identical to the 550xp, with a handful of differences, mainly the cylinder porting and the crank stuffers (or lack of). It's a metal crank exactly the same, mostly because husky are lazy and just down rate a machine to get a 'lower grade' product

 

 

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Crank stuffers ? layman's terms please

[traktorz]

Item #6 on this picture

[treesap]

Item #6 on this picture

 

Thanks for that, what's the purpose of the stuffers and why do the XP models need them and the others don't ?

[Eddy_t]

Thanks for that, what's the purpose of the stuffers and why do the XP models need them and the others don't ?

 

Decreases crank case volume, increasing transfer velocity, which means a faster pick up and a better transferral of air fuel mix

 

 

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[treesap]

Decreases crank case volume, increasing transfer velocity, which means a faster pick up and a better transferral of air fuel mix

 

 

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So that combined with the different porting makes it a revving lunatic..

[Eddy_t]

Pretty much, such simple things to make such a nuts saw!

 

 

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[Daniel Jiggins]

550 xpg lovely in these cold mornings

[jrose]

I brought a 545 in September for use as a general ground saw smaller than my 365, and would heartily recommend it! In general, I prefer the "semi pro" Huskys over the XP version for all round use, especially when facing dirty wood with bits of metal in, they're a bit more forgiving than the revvy, forestry biased XP saws but still brilliant!

 

Forestry work, cutting clean softwood and mostly snedding - you want a whizzy 550xp/560xp with chisel chain

 

Arb work, more logging up than snedding, dirtier timber - 545/555 with semi chisel

 

At least, that's my opinion!