Big Saw wanted, but which one?

[Suffolk-Matt]

 

In this country the ms880/088, if you look hard enough you might just find a magnum series.

 

 

Whats the difference with the Magnums on the 088? I always thought they were for the yank market and some of the smaller saws had a few extra cc's compared to the standard ones.

 

Just interested

[agg221]

The 084 is good but the cheapest option is usually an 070 (no chainbrake option) or an 075 or 076, which are basically the same as each other but with different recoil units. 111cc and happily pull a 50" bar. These saws are all about torque rather than revs. They will chew their way through anything in a sort of unstoppable fashion. If you end up with an 075 or 076 without a chainbrake they can be retro-fitted but make sure it has the cast lug on the front of the crank case, otherwise you end up doing a bolt-on job illustrated on here by Eddy_t.

 

Alec

Edited February 7, 2014 by agg221

[Rich2484]

Whats the difference with the Magnums on the 088? I always thought they were for the yank market and some of the smaller saws had a few extra cc's compared to the standard ones.

 

Just interested

 

Sorry thought everyone knew the joke,

 

Yeah it really is just a name to brand it to the yanks. There is a small difference in power, the magnum has a bit more. But only to ensure it actually runs the biggest bar it can. In Europe we don't need or use 6ft bars. But the yanks use it a lot.

 

I have seen a few using the large jonsered saws before.

[agg221]

Whats the difference with the Magnums on the 088? I always thought they were for the yank market and some of the smaller saws had a few extra cc's compared to the standard ones.

 

Just interested

 

The Magnums were American spec saws - I'm not aware of any difference in pot and piston so the same .cc but they sometimes had things like dual port mufflers as standard so got a bit more power out of them. More recently they just call everything Magnum and it's the same as the UK-spec normal saw, apart from the sticker!

 

Alec

[Suffolk-Matt]

The Magnums were American spec saws - I'm not aware of any difference in pot and piston so the same .cc but they sometimes had things like dual port mufflers as standard so got a bit more power out of them. More recently they just call everything Magnum and it's the same as the UK-spec normal saw, apart from the sticker!

 

Alec

 

Gottcha.

 

Reason i asked is had an old 038 farmboss and after reading up on them a while back I discovered there was a 038, 038 super, 038 farmboss and Magnum:lol: I believe these had different displacements - 60-72cc