Echo 390esx / 501sx / 620sx

[Ian C]

Ditto. This "plasticky" accusation is weird. Pick up a 362 or 560xp and they're just as plasticky...

 

Were not saying there's any more plastic in them than any other make, it's just that they seem to specialise is producing the shiniest tacky looking plastic ever made.

[Ukulian]

Here's a thought. I wonder if the Chinese make their saws out of shiny plastic BECAUSE the Echo's are shiny? ;)

[geoff]

Shiny or not, they hold up well against the opposition, and beauty is more than skin deep.

 

If I was the sort to worry about my saws looking shiny or not I would pack it in, and get a job as a cosmipolitan hairdresser in Brighton. ..

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Were not saying there's any more plastic in them than any other make, it's just that they seem to specialise is producing the shiniest tacky looking plastic ever made.

 

Subjective, obviously...

 

Dolmar 115 - superbly glossy hood; old school tough saw...

[Ian C]

Shiny or not, they hold up well against the opposition, and beauty is more than skin deep.

 

If I was the sort to worry about my saws looking shiny or not I would pack it in, and get a job as a cosmipolitan hairdresser in Brighton. ..

 

I thought you were cosmopolitan hairdresser in Brighton Geoffrey!

 

I'm fancying a top handle though.

 

The ground saws seem heavy in comparison to the compatition.

Edited May 14, 2016 by Ian C

[felixthelogchopper]

I thought you were cosmopolitan hairdresser in Brighton Geoffrey!

 

I'm fancying a top handle though.

 

The ground saws seem heavy in comparison to the compatition.

 

Easy mistake to make, given his blue rinse and general lightness of foot.

[Ian C]

Easy mistake to make, given his blue rinse and general lightness of foot.

 

Haha that's what's thrown me felix.

[Daythe trees]

The rear handle saws are heavier than the competition but I think they are more robust and I'd rather have sore arms from using it than skinned knuckles from fixing it in the workshop.

 

Got rid of my 560xp and replaced it with a 620sx nine months ago and it's had more work than the 560 ever saw and has never broke where as the 560xp....... Triggers broom?

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

The rear handle saws are heavier than the competition but I think they are more robust and I'd rather have sore arms from using it than skinned knuckles from fixing it in the workshop.

 

Got rid of my 560xp and replaced it with a 620sx nine months ago and it's had more work than the 560 ever saw and has never broke where as the 560xp....... Triggers broom?

 

I can't get this heavier thing! So if a saw weighs 2kg more than another so what?! Yeah, it will tire you more for the first week or two. But then you'll be stronger and will cope. I can understand cutting the labels out of your pants if your climbing Everest; you know life and death, agregation of small factors (Dave Brailsford - TDF) and all that. But tree work! Get a grip; are you men or mice?!

[arboriculturist]

I can't get this heavier thing! So if a saw weighs 2kg more than another so what?! Yeah, it will tire you more for the first week or two. But then you'll be stronger and will cope. I can understand cutting the labels out of your pants if your climbing Everest; you know life and death, agregation of small factors (Dave Brailsford - TDF) and all that. But tree work! Get a grip; are you men or mice?!

 

Stihl battery climbing saw weighs almost 1 Kg more than a Stihl 150 and everyone is loving them! ( I'd rather buy the Echo 2510 than either of those though and get it delivered straight to Spud before we put it into commission)