dan494

Nice. I reckon it'll be a decent saw

just to add, if youre worried about it, send a photo to the huztl people and they'll most likely send a new one out, seen several people say theyve had replacement parts sent out free with no quibbles

i saw an almost identical chip on the facebook builders page i linked. Think it went together fine. I've not seen any stories of the crankcases failing

https://www.facebook.com/groups/800629696763025/ is a good group to get answers, those lads have built loads of those 660s

i'm 100% convinced stihl like to build saws that break more. Apparently they've just weakened the air filter cover on the 201 to break more often. Imagine the 462 will be a weaker version of the 461

Same as most saws thesedays I imagine. I've heard even the echo 2511 picks up more power if you drill the exhaust

I've looked at them too. Main dealer is too far for me to go look but will arrange a demo. I really like the chute design on them, specs look great and they're much cheaper than tw and forst equivalent

ah man, i've got 3 chains sitting here too

Just seen this elsewhere. Justa bit of FUN..... Want to know about *BITCOIN* A lot of monkeys lived near a village. One day a merchant came to the village to buy these monkeys! He announced that he will buy the monkeys @ $100 each. The villagers thought that this man is mad. They thought how can somebody buy stray monkeys at $100 each? Still, some people caught some monkeys and gave it to this merchant and he gave $100 for each monkey. This news spread like wildfire and people caught monkeys and sold it to the merchant. After a few days, the merchant announced that he will buy monkeys @ 200 each. The lazy villagers also ran around to catch the remaining monkeys! They sold the remaining monkeys @ 200 each. Then the merchant announced that he will buy monkeys @ 500 each! The villagers start to lose sleep! ... They caught six or seven monkeys, which was all that was left and got 500 each. The villagers were waiting anxiously for the next announcement. Then the merchant announced that he is going home for a week. And when he returns, he will buy monkeys @ 1000 each! He asked his employee to take care of the monkeys he bought. He was alone taking care of all the monkeys in a cage. The merchant went home. The villagers were very sad as there were no more monkeys left for them to sell it at $1000 each. Then the employee told them that he will sell some monkeys @ 700 each secretly. This news spread like fire. Since the merchant buys monkey @ 1000 each, there is a 300 profit for each monkey. The next day, villagers made a queue near the monkey cage. The employee sold all the monkeys at 700 each. The rich bought monkeys in big lots. The poor borrowed money from money lenders and also bought monkeys! The villagers took care of their monkeys & waited for the merchant to return. But nobody came! ...Then they ran to the employee... But he has already left too ! The villagers then realised that they have bought the useless stray monkeys @ 700 each and unable to sell them! The Bitcoin will be the next monkey business It will make a lot of people bankrupt and a few people filthy rich in this monkey business. That's how it will work

Bought some on the black Friday sale, can I have a hat anyway!?

I'm running the same setup. 2511 has been faultless, husky pretty similar, rear spring goes somewhere between 3 and 6 months. Don't know why people say they're fragile, mines had a few tumbles, last one being about 30-40 foot and it cracked the fuel tank seam but cant moan at that. £80 for a new one from skyland and had it sorted in an evening. Its recently shed 2 cooling fins, don't know if that's related so thinking of getting a new saw in the new year. might try a 201 just because i've still never even picked one up!

The only saw i've used where the chainbreak handle was dangerous was a genuine stihl ms660 where the exhaust melts and softens them. On this saw it feels as solid as any other saw i've ever used. Right now id wager its safer than alot of poorly maintained saws out there full of crap behind the brake mechanism!

had it out today, took a minute or so to warm up before would rev freely, but once it did it cut lovely. Had couple of extra guys on todays job and they couldn't tell the difference apart from the badge not being a stihl one. Plastics, switch, trigger on it feel exactly the same as my 461. Cant speak to its longevity but so far its spot on. Will definitely build another saw from the range in the future

Give spectrum plant a call, they're timberwolf dealers but do other blade sharpening too

Looked at one a while back, I think the tree was a hawthorn (covered in ivy) filled half this poor guys garden so nothing would grow underneath. He was refused permission to fell it on the grounds the houses behind would be able to see his house, was onlyt allowed to trim it. His rear fence only backed into a cul de sac with just the road at the end of his garden. You'd have to stand in the road to look over his fence..

It feels fine to me. Only thing I have around to make a few test cuts it an old wooden serving trolley and it whipped through that very well. Its been sitting for a couple of hours and I've just noticed some petrol has leaked from the fuel cap and is really squeaky now so will put genuine ones on there tomorrow when get to a dealer. I've also heard the decomp valves fail often so ill put a genuine one on or just blank it off, prob the latter as pulls over easily. I'll also get my 461 out tomorrow which is the closest saw I own to compare it to, see how the plastic covers feel

The wife's summer project that was!

yeah i'm well happy with it so far, need it to bed in a bit and loosen up so can get a decent tune on it, its running up to about 7k revs a the mo. will get it to work and cut some stuff up and dial it in hopefully

She lives! Excuse the lack of ppe fellow arb police, flywheel just came so put it on and fired her up! First fire took about 20 pulls and tick over was too high to lowered that and just filmed this. Everything is 100% huztl apart from the spark plug I decided to change for an NGK

obviously needs quite a bit of work yet but 2 things i immediately noticed, the font colour being light grey is too hard to read easily, and once you click a menu link you cant click another to go back to the homepage

Perhaps but tbh looking at the prices of old saws and the cost of the parts, it's not worth it. For example I broke the flywheel on the 361 I built. A genuine one is around £100. They're a fiver from where I got the saw. Goes from a very expensive lesson to an annoyance!

I appreciated the input. I fully accept chances are I'd do something wrong or a component would fail! But on flip side some of these saws do have a few years under their belts now so could be a viable tool

Yeah I don't need it, got plenty of saws. Just want to learn and if works well, happy days! It certainly feels good, looking at it and holding it only things that give it away is the name plate and the fuel tank a slightly odd colour

Waiting on a new flywheel. Hopefully here in the morning so can get some videos

why?