Hell of an echo in here...

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Been putting this off for some time - wondering if I can face the inevitable laughter from readers! Clearly I would not spend my own money on one but this new Echo CS-600 came my way recently and I was asked what I thought of it. Needless to say, I imagined my previous experience of echo saws would be repeated; poor power to weight ratio, irritating features like poxy ignition switches, sprocket covers etc. Had a CS-510 until recently - reasonably fast cutting but just irked me off so it went. Interestingly, all the annoying features remain but to such a less degree that I continued using it for a whole day on small felling and cross-cutting and then some firewood. On paper it compares with the Stihl MS341 in terms of power/weight ratio. On reputation it has no chance. But, and this is the surprise, I was shocked; despite its low max rpm of 12,500 and running too big a bar imo (20") it really seems to cut well and is very smooth. But the biggest shock was the sheer balance of the thing - it simply has to be the best balanced saw I've ever picked up. There you go, a wee bedtime story!

[Peter]

Are you sure you've used it? It looks vair clean..............

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

more pics

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Are you sure you've used it? It looks vair clean..............

 

Ha! yeah, pics taken before I tried it!

[Joe]

good to hear echo are steadily improving their saws

[Ian C]

:laugh1: looks v plasticy, like those cheap chinese copy sawy................ TCD got an echo

 

 

 

Had to be done

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

It might look plasticky but it aint compared to some of the crap coming out of Germany and Sweden atm. It's actually beautifully put together with real attention to detail. Just like cars - German solidity or Japanese attn to detail.

 

Long term use will of course test its durability; a chance I might not get...

[peter_t]

i use an echo top handle every day at work and apart from being a little plasticy i can't say a bad word about it:001_smile:

i seccond what TimberCutterDartmoor said about balance, far better than the 200t and much lighter too.

 

pete

[treewizard]

looks like a nice saw, i have a top handled echo and its spot on.

[testcricket01]

the only echo saw ive been around was guy i climb for he used to have a echo top handle. it was useless hard to start even harder to keep running. but things change maybe there good saws now