Bigger saw

[NickinMids]

Need a bigger saw. Something equivalent to an old stihl 44 but a new Husky.?

Thinking 24" to 28" bar length ? Which is the model to go for and who does the best price.

[mendiplogs]

Need a bigger saw. Something equivalent to an old stihl 44 but a new Husky.?

Thinking 24" to 28" bar length ? Which is the model to go for and who does the best price.

 

HI NEWBIE 461 will run 20/25" bar and a 660 25" up mate thanks jon

[Tim Stobart Tree Surgery]

I've a MS460 that runs a 25" bar with loads of power to spare, but they've been replaced. If you can get one, I'd go there. Should be around the £850 mark if my memory serves me correctly, anything under 20% of the RRP's an ok price.

 

On an aside, has anyone ever run a 30" bar on a ms460? I've got a tree that it'd be useful for but was wondering if it'd run that ok.

[steve7962]

I have a husqvarna 576xp, can't fault it! It lives with a 18" bar but I stick a 24" on when up a tree, doesn't feel like it's struggling at all in my opinion, cracking saw, you could look at a husky 372xp too

[Stubby]

Husqvarna 390xp ( ported by spud ) up to 28" bar for me.

[MattyF]

Husky equivalent is the 372xp but you can buy a 365 cheaper and there's an easy mod with a dremal that basically makes it in to a 372.

The 365 has to be the strato version though.

I would look at the 576xp as well its a bit heavier but more power.

Modern still equivalent is the 441 and 461.

 

 

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[TimberCutterDartmoor]

MS461.

[Logit]

I've a MS460 that runs a 25" bar with loads of power to spare, but they've been replaced. If you can get one, I'd go there. Should be around the £850 mark if my memory serves me correctly, anything under 20% of the RRP's an ok price.

 

On an aside, has anyone ever run a 30" bar on a ms460? I've got a tree that it'd be useful for but was wondering if it'd run that ok.

 

 

I have run a 30 inch bar on an 046, it runs ok but of course a little slow and is at the max length the oil pump can handle. I have run a 36 inch bar on the 046, it works, but even slower and I had to fit a high flow rate oil pump for that. Yes, I should use a bigger saw on the really big stuff but I rarely need more than a 25 inch bar and an oil pump was cheaper than a bigger saw

[Tilio-acerion]

MS461 and whack a dual port exhaust front cover on for good measure.

[Tilio-acerion]

Also you can run 16" - 32" bars no problem.