TimberCutterDartmoor

I can't help if you don't figure the point. Metz is better than sony and panasonic but not well known. Lack of market share doesn't mean it's no good was my point in reply to the post I quoted.

261, 362 or 441 in there?

How many houses have you walked into with a METZ TV in the lounge? But you'll have seen plenty of Sony and Panasonic...

Ask to speak to Ben, da boss!

Why?

Second that. I've used both. 5105 has sparkle and guts where 550 passes out.

Sorry Jon, got to disagree with you. You are too nice and those fireman were laughable. Painful to watch. If an all singing all dancing arb crew turned up I'll bet Fireman Sam would say "sorry mate we've got this under control; we can't allow anyone near the tree blah blah blah".

Unbeknown to Echo newbies, you won't need any parts... Well I haven't for my CS600 in 6 years. And yes Chris Walker - it has cut thousands of tons.

Not if it's FC or sensitive site; diffuse pollution / unacceptable ruts / etc = park up and wait.

Not good at all mate; all operations on hold. I don't expect any understanding from Finance either!

Timber Trail 4x4 have just confirmed to me that they have this part... after pointing them to this thread... http://timbertrail4x4.com/

But what do you mean by "better"?! If it's max rpm that's all that defines "better" then the 560xp is better until it's max rpm becomes 0 after the inevitable problems...

There are two types of no money; 1) Where household income is iro £100k p/a, House #2 is provided but expensive to run and house #1 is rented out covering it's mortgage and maybe a little extra. Said income from Wife as school headmistress and husband in administrative job. They eat the fat of the land, have a car each, eat out, take holidays, have limited debts, give to charity etc etc. But when they are shopping in Waitrose they choose the budget Tomatoes over the Organic ones because they "can't afford them". Then the Wife asks her Mum for £400 to pay for some new curtains in the Dining room. Type #2 can't understand this scenario. 2) A Forestry Contractor. Has £2k outgoings a month on middle aged machinery finance and cashflow is right on the limit of funding this so no income whatsoever; even robbing Peter to Paul atleast 50% of the year as circumstances dictate. Wife earns which pays the mortgage, council tax, water, gas, electric, one car, food, insurance, phone line, household essentials, possibly able to afford to replace worn out carpet in one room of the house per year (£210 fitted but it's a big knock to the float). AKA working paycheck to paycheck. Holidays, indulgences - I don't think so. Both perceive that they have no money. Example 2 Contractor is owed a lot of money, given spurious reasons as to non-payment; gets behind and defaults on a few commitments. Wife can't bail the business out of nothing and has ongoing medical issues to think about. It gets to the point where they are borderline about to go to the foodbank. Yet people think they are loaded because their ageing car is atleast washed and the man has a couple of forest machines. Then there's a lad in Nosy Be, Madagascar who earns $1 per annum!

It's his Job Description, plain and simple. Proclaim to the world that the gyro/balance/outboard clutches / autotune / mass are more important than reliability / build quality / and so on. We all know if the 620 had an H name on it and the 560 was made by Echo what he'd say

Timber Trail 4x4, give em a ring...

Shocking today, soaked thru in 15 mins, rest of day in yard. Forecast for next 5 days is crap too.

That a Uniforest on the 3pl?

Much as I love the Dol 5105 it isn't going to add what you're looking for on top of a 550 although it is the torquier of the two. No surprise it's got to be the Dol 6100 or Echo 620sx.

Pastrami and salad - in those "thins" (Warburtons). But that's 1 day in 5 - avoid bread now so box jammed with tuna or moza salad. Means I don't fall asleep pm.

Bit of a find that! Trying to think of all the for and against of chain vs rope... First would be less hand injuries from stray filaments - up the nail bed - ouch!

Same.

Cold?! very mild here, rubbish. warm and wet yuuuck!

Wet wet wet. Dark, Dull, sodden. Can't work in this; just wrecks the ground too much. :thumbdown:

Basically dead. Which is fine cos logs do my head in

That means Stihl only then doesn't it?! The Echo will be more reliable but I wouldn't pay more than what you know it can be had for elsewhere. Sounds like either way you're being milked. IME I have never found it worth paying more for a "relationship" with a dealer. I can do anything to a saw a dealer can except plug it into a laptop and I won't be owning one of those saws so that rules that out anyway. I've sent one saw away only when I was too busy and didn't have the inclination to pull it apart. 036 went to Spud with a crankcase air leak from memory.