Ms441 or Ms440 for milling.

[7610]

Advice please. I don't own either but need to buy either for a mill. I run 10' on my chains, accurate sharpening and milling spruce. My everyday saws are a 181 and a 362.

[Mark J]

I'd say that a 460/461 is the smallest saw you'd want to be milling with. It's also considerably 'more' of a saw than the 44 series.

 

I suppose it depends what you're milling.

[7610]

Spruce initial and then green ash and oak.

[swinny]

you could or should be able to pick up a good old 064 for not a lot of money and that would be better suited i would think

[agg221]

With milling, go as big as you can find/afford. It can be done even with very small saws (we recently tried milling with the Stihl battery-powered saw just to see what happened, and it worked) but it is slow. If you want to mill anything of around 2' at some point then anything under a 660 will be very slow.

 

If you can get an old 075 or 076 that would be a far better option.

 

Alec

[7610]

Appreciate the replies. If anyone has the above for sale let me know. Cheers.