Tiny echo!

[kcstevens]

100% I won't be going back to stihl. Love my topper despite the plastic around the exhaust and please don't get me started on my baby (620sx), now there's a saw <3

[geoff]

S'funny how this thread has changed from how great Echos are to the opposite.

 

They are good saws, and the little top handle saw is a cracker, but echo have responded to isolated incidents in a fast and thorough way, so quite how they have gone to the 'oposite' I'm not sure, but if your opinion is based on hands on experience I bow to your opinion.

[dan494]

S'funny how this thread has changed from how great Echos are to the opposite.

 

 

As far as I can see there's only some issues on exhausts on their newer 2 climbing saws, haven't heard a bad word regarding anything else on the echo range

[Mick Dempsey]

Fair point Joe.

 

It's all about battery saws for pruning and small dismantles now, these diddy petrol saws are going to be defunct in a couple of years.

[geoff]

The battery saws are improving, it is the way forward in the long run, but you have to lover the cackle of a little 2 stroke going about its work.

[Mick Dempsey]

As far as the rest of the pro echo mob that have come swarming out of the hive are concerned.

 

Remember this recall was about safety, fire risk etc, not them just being crap performers like the early 201s.

[Joe Newton]

Fair point Joe.

 

It's all about battery saws for pruning and small dismantles now, these diddy petrol saws are going to be defunct in a couple of years.

 

 

Dunno Mick.

 

To be honest my big boy topper only comes out on decent takedowns now. I reckon there's a place for both.

 

I'm looking to get a battery topper after testing the same elbow twice in 2 days starting the Echo in the tree.

 

As I see it the e-topper would be king for those jobs where there's s lot of time between cuts, but not too much saw work to be done. The mini petrol ones are grand for high intensity small cuts.

 

Plus your e-topper is still heavier than my combustible echo.

[Mick Dempsey]

The battery saws are improving, it is the way forward in the long run, but you have to lover the cackle of a little 2 stroke going about its work.

 

Frankly Geoff I don't love it.

On a big dismantle, fine. On a deadwood, prune or similar, the sound of silence is better.

[Mick Dempsey]

Dunno Mick.

 

To be honest my big boy topper only comes out on decent takedowns now. I reckon there's a place for both.

 

I'm looking to get a battery topper after testing the same elbow twice in 2 days starting the Echo in the tree.

 

As I see it the e-topper would be king for those jobs where there's s lot of time between cuts, but not too much saw work to be done. The mini petrol ones are grand for high intensity small cuts.

 

Plus your e-topper is still heavier than my combustible echo.

 

Ok, define "high intensity small cuts"

[Joe Newton]

Off the top of my head: big conny stripping, multiple small tree dismantles, pollards, re pollards.

 

I recently did a huge lapsed Pop pollard. 30yrs re growth, 14" dia cuts. All had to be cut small or rigged over targets, lines, road etc. took 2+ days.

 

Can't see a battery lasting a full day like that.

 

Edit: and "testing my elbow" should have read "twatting my elbow"