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That thing is a laser in Chestnut. That right there in the vid is Beech. That's an 044 pulling a 30 inch bar buried in 30-36" of beech, holding 11,500 RPM in the cut, and occasionally bouncing up to 12.

I'll just leave this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVTk3jGfAIM I guessing she has an air leak in the carb boot...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVTk3jGfAIM

Look like standard heavy duty spikes. And the price isn't a whole lot cheaper than my dealers stateside asks. What do they go for OEM in the UK?

044 heavily ported

Use 404 with low rakers.

Cut it with pure rapeseed as the weather cools. It will flow better. I go half and half from the start when we get bio oil. It's just way too thick from the factory.

Never seen a big saw in a French maids outfit

BTW, this is toolnuts old saw. He's got a 261 now. And it looks like that thing is gonna end up in my lap for some tweaks as well.

The 261 responds well to muff mods, too. Just make sure you don;t point the port at the brake handle The 241 has loads of room under the bonnet for ports. I also have two more ports on the other side to be safe. Eventually, she'll be ported. Not because I want more power - she has loads. I want better throttle response. I made the mistake of running a ported 42 special once. Remember to reset after the mod. Let idle on "Start" ^ for at least 60 seconds(I count to 90), shut it off so it saves the idle parameters. THen 5 full cuts similar to what I have in the vid, and she will be fairly well dialed in, and she will keep dialing it in as you use her,

16", 325, 7"(ish) unseasoned larch, simple muffler mod and reset. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhhyXlodfBI Next bar will be an 18" Stihl(which is really 16").

The 056 series, in fairness, were some of the best saws Stihl made in their day. And a Mag II is a beast. Which also means they were a tad heavy at a touch over 20 lbs. Your 395 is about 18 lbs. Having said that, you should notice a difference. A duel port muffler will make a big difference. You may also want to check the tune of it. Have you had it serviced? Do you know what the compression is at?

Well, I'd hate to see your dealer give you a tough time over it if you needed warranty work. After all, it is rather invasive surgery.

There's a small perforated baffle on the 241. The 241 is actually surprisingly choked up. It has a small baffle and a tiny exit hole - maybe 8mm. It's basically guaranteed to fill up the exhaust with carbon and run hot. They respond extremely well to muffler mods when recalibrated correctly.

Yeah, two versions of the 362, both labeled "C" on the starter - with the M-Tronic labelled "C-M" in the literature.. The 241, I dunno. I never paid much attention to them until someone offered me one. With a good MM, they are good saws with a load of torque for their size.

When it comes to autotunes and stratos, some respond better to mods than other. My first attempt, I must not have recalibrated correctly, or it didn't take. It was a bit better, not not by much. Then I gutted the poor thing and recalibrated a slightly different way(on start 60+ secs, then off, then straight to 5 big cuts). And POW, she freakin came alive. It went from a lazy typical strato saw to something I can actually limb with. Just make sure when you muffler mod that it doesn't end up eating away at a brake handle or sumfin. There's loads of room under the bonnet of a 241 for the muffler, thus the big ole hole.

How bout some muffler modding? Or should I dig up the porting thread? STIHL MS241c-m - I just recalibrated it and she really freaking came alive. Winds out and revs like shes ported. I'll need to make a new vid. I got it in partial trade for the 372 work.

Surprised no one's said anything about the tear in the jeans...

Man's gotta scritch what a man's gotta scritch.

Well, for trying to be conservative, she turned out OK. Here she is tuned to just nudge the rev limiter on high. So, a bit rich, but she seems to be happy rich. Loads of torque, too.

The 420's are very solid machines.

A bud of mine, whom I have owned a few ported saws of his, is a Husqvarna dealer stateside. He's had a '572AT' in his hands for a short while recently. He liked it. That's all he would tell me.

We'll see how she comes out. There isn't a lot you can do on the intake of these unless you want to defeat the strato. This is a work saw, so I didn't want to go too crazy with it. There's some timing added to the intake, very little done to the exhaust port, muffler gutted, transfers raised and directed a touch, and lower transfers had a lot of work done to them, as well as the base of the cylinder to match it to the chassis. I'll adjust the timing advance tomorrow to see how she likes it. Just noticed I said it was a 372AT. I meant to say 372XT. This will likely be the last one I do - virtually every porter I know that I asked for advice on a 372XT said either 1) I don't do em if I can help it - they eat rings, or 2) lathe work and defeat strato to get real gains. So, yeah, I just will go a bit conservative on it, gave it a lot more open exhaust, more transfers, and some ignition timing if it helps. She has to like it at least a little - she's half a turn out on both screws and still jis nudging the rev limiter.

372AT Just got done running a little whirly gigger inside one of these poor things. I'll see how she runs tomorrow. I've made no ignition timing mods, so curious to see how she will respond to them tomorrow. Adjusting the carburetor is just a good time on these things.