Tiny echo!

[Maxnaggle]

from page 32 of user manual

 

1/4 pitch sprocket A556-001710

20CM guide bar C20H25-52CL-ED

25CM guide bar C25H25-60CL-ET

Ahhh nice one!

[wicklamulla]

cheers Max, £335 all in is good. oil be buying either a stihl MS150T or this new Echo soon. I too would like a small carving bar and it's associated small gauge chain on the Echo.

[Coletti]

I thought it came with a 1/4 pitch chain and sigihara type bar as standard, or at least that's what I have been lead to believe. Sure I have seen several on here that have come with it. As with my current cs260tes. When I get the this new one I shall be putting a modded ms 150 bar and chain on it, then watch it fly

[Maxnaggle]

Ooooo modded bar and chain? Share! Yeah to be honest the saw in radmore and tucker show room had an echo brand carving bar and chain on it, didn't think to check the one I was given.

[Maxnaggle]

cheers Max, £335 all in is good. oil be buying either a stihl MS150T or this new Echo soon. I too would like a small carving bar and it's associated small gauge chain on the Echo.

 

My opinion is that the echo feels more robust. It's cheaper but then faffing with a bar and chain will even that out ...

[Rob D]

This saw looks the business! The laminated bars that come with Echos are Tsumura bars - the pro solid longer bars on their larger saws are Sugihara bars.

 

 

In 6 months there should be some pro lam Sugihara bars which will run their very own 1/4" picco chain.

 

 

These seems to be some confusion on what this saw runs as a standard bar and chain set up - some have 3/8 lo pro and some 1/4" pitch? Maybe they started off with 3/8 lo pro then changed it...

 

 

The 1/4" pitch bars seem to have a Tsumura carving bar on there...

 

 

Sugihara options at the moment are an 8" and 10" 1/4" sprocket nose bar or you could put one of the very small nose carving bars on there with an 10" R7 nose (and these will be cheaper soon as last order we got in much larger quanties). The R7 bar will run the Stihl 1/4" picco chain but not sure how the tiny nose will hold up over time in this application.

 

 

GROUP 1 Echo chainsaws | Product Categories | Sugihara Guide Bars

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Maxnaggle]

Used the saw today cutting up some hazel around 6" and laurel a bit bigger, goes really well! Well impressed so far

[billpierce]

i stuck a ms150 bar on a makita dcs230, 1.1mm gauge 1/4 chain, big difference from the standard 3/8 lp

 

well worth getting the 1.1 i would say! and the bar mod is a piece of cake!

[Rob D]

i stuck a ms150 bar on a makita dcs230, 1.1mm gauge 1/4 chain, big difference from the standard 3/8 lp

 

well worth getting the 1.1 i would say! and the bar mod is a piece of cake!

 

 

 

Yep that small 1/4 picco chain really is a game changer - once you have cut with it - so smooth, fast and clean - I don't think you would want to use another small chain on a small saw.

 

 

Only down side is the chains are awkward to sharpen (so small!) and hit something and it pretty much writes them off/or if you do sharpen them back again it is hard to get cutting well again.

 

 

But either way an amazing chain from Stihl

[john k]

Is there a rear handle version of the little Echo?