wisecobandit

As far as im aware the earliest production was 2011.

If people are happy to post serial numbers you can work out which week they where made and the numbered saw from that week.

There cropping up now quite frequently for "spares and repair" due to scored pistons etc

So there I was sat at some traffic lights passing by a fresh building site watching 3 lads with a newish large diesel chipper on the back of a tipper transit (not that old either) trimming back the road hedge with a hedgecutter throwing brambles etc into the chipper.

Next thing ceased to amaze me...

2 of the lads trying to bend a 3-4" tree down whilst the third in only what I can describe attempted to nibble it away near the base in some vain attempt to cut it down with the aforementioned hedgecutter after eventually starting it after about 15 pulls of the starter cord.. Even worse was the fact they clearly had 5-6 to cut down not just the 1.

Now I don't know if it was through sheer lazyness they couldn't walk the length of a chipper to grab a chainsaw or they just didn't have one with them.

Now if I saw anyone mistreat any of my tools like that they would have a size 12 right up there arse and they sure as hell wouldn't have a new chipper and truck to be given to abuse either.

So whats the worst mistreatments have you seen and sucked through your teeth muttering to yourself?

Wouldn't think so Jon. Not by much anyway as they came out new in 2011.

If you where a 70's child this will bring back memories....

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMxzVK0p6GM]70's Kids TV Nostalgia.flv - YouTube[/ame]

And the adverts for flake, old spice.....ah bisto....

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZFqyAhvQWc]70's TV adverts - Best of (part 2/2) - YouTube[/ame]

Oh how about the program called "monkey magic" and pigsy?

Our phone number was 491.

They then decided 6 villages should have the same area code so each village got a different 2 digit prefix so we ended up with 0647 61491.

Then came the 1 after the 0 so ended up 01647 61491....

Remember when all London was just an area code of 01.

And no ones mentioned the old binetone game you used to plug into the t.v with 1 wheel on the handset.

Tennis and squash lol.

Hand held space invaders? Original rubiks cubes? Space dust? gobstoppers, jawbreakers and aniseed balls that made your mouth red. Black jack liquorice sweets and fruit salads?

Back when sweets where all in the glass jars behind the counter and you went in and bought 1/4 of a pound in weight.

The hand ham slicers at every village shop...

Toolstation is where I get my carb cleaner and its pretty good stuff. I buy 6 or 12 at a time. Always end up getting a few other odd bits and when you spend £10 anyway you get free delivery.

Having spoken to Kim at Danequip it looks like my Stumpy can be resurrected with a new engine and welding work for a fraction of the cost of a new one. Here's hoping...

I just started rubbing my hands together thinking it sounds pretty rebuildable until you made that comment

Am I the only 1 that finds the 346 a bit of a heavy munter??

To be fair I had the xpg which is heavier and didn't find it anything special even with a muffler mod.

With the 346 on semi chisel against an ms250 with muffler mod and full chisel I used to grab the stihl every time as it was quicker cutting and lighter to.

I much prefer the 357.

thanks spud, not sure any modification would be good for warranty on new saw, my oops. the 365 is x torq. 372 is xp. would be 18 inch bar on either.

 

he ideally wants a nice simple saw, no auto tune etc. no tool less chain tensioners, just something with plenty of grunt for firewood, sometimes small sticks and others the full 18 inches and more.

 

i dont want to influence him but get a wider opinion, however if it was my choice i would go for 372 as i love mine.

The 365 and 372 x torq models are exactly the same saw (same 70cc engine) apart from the transfer covers as Spud rightly says. That's the only difference. Tell him to save £130 or whatever the difference is now and buy the 365 then at a later date when hes happy or the warranty is out modify the transfer covers to turn it into the 372 or just buy 372 transfer covers.

Make sure you take note of the settings (ie turn each screw in and count exactly how much you turn them before they softly ground out) write it down and then remove them and strip the carb again before squirting cleaner thru. Also I always tend to have a quick look at the ends of the screws to make sure they are in good nick and dirt free.

Thing I missed first time around which should of picked up on.

You say you cleaned the carb but haven't removed the limiters? You need to cut them off (sometimes you can just turn the adjuster and they will snap) but im unsure of what the limiters are like on a mokita.

You need to get those screws out and squirt cleaner down them etc, You may have cleaned the carb body as such internally but until you have removed those 2 adjustment screws and cleaned them the low idle circuit cant be classed as being cleaned properly and could be your issue.

A good sensible choice after a 261.

Possible air leak somewhere? Check the inlet manifold well for cracks and splits/deterioration

|Assume you have tried a different sparkplug? What does the colour of the plug look like?

Sounds like it needs a carb strip and possibly new diaphragm kit fitted and tuning back up.

The Hondas quads tend to require a carb clean every few years. They run much better once done and can get a bit grotty in the fuel bowl at the bottom of the carb. There is a slotted brass screw in the very bottom of the bowl also which you can undo and bleed out any water it may have built up in there which can help sometimes.

Also theres a rubber diaphragm in the top of the carb which can split/hole altho that would give you a permanent rough running problem and not intermittent.

Ahem

 

Its been parked for three weeks and now just makes a clicking noise, has it developed an earth fault while sat doing nothing or is the battery knackered?

I had a 6 month old ford transit last week that had an earth fault due to the earth lead to ground off the battery having a crap contact,

An earth fault can develop at anytime in constant use or stood up.

Process of elimination is obviously battery first however jumpleads/jumping didn't solve the situation.

Checking the earth is a 2 minute job and just as likely as a starter motor fault especially on a landrover

No point rebuilding a starter motor costing money when you don't need to because you didn't do the basics by obviously checking its it had + and - when its free and takes 2 minutes

Think last time I went in a pub in Devon they had them, can't you get them anymore?

Down ere in Devon its prob the same peanut card that was behind the bar 20 years ago if it was a village pub

Back when you could choose from about 6-8 different boxes of walkers crisp they had behind the bar. Salt and vinegar where always in blue and cheese and onion green so why the hell did they change it :confused1:

Salt and shake crisp with the blue satchet of salt inside.

Them fish and chip flavered jobs

And lets not forget the glass CORONA bottles you used to take back and get a deposit back on. Started off as 2p then 4p then the grand sum of 10p!! Some of you guys must remember them?

R Whites lemonade and coca cola out of glass bottles kept behind the bar - because draught soft drinks never existed back then

Hi wise they have to get it out for the APF show mate thanks Jon

Why do they "have to" Jon?

PPl have been claiming for the past 3 mths its due out within weeks but it never seems to happen. It will eventually no doubt but when is another matter.

What have stihl done/said to all the 661 owners who sent there saws back on the recall does anyone know? I would be totally miffed if I had a saw for a month, it got recalled and 3 months later I was stil waiting.

earth fault

My first choice of guess to. Link a jumplead from the negative of the battery to a good earth point on the engine and try turn it over again

HI JIM thats what stihl will say it will come in 2 weeks let see im told there good saw but not as fast as a good ported 660:thumbup1: saw thanks all the best jim with your new saw mate jon

Yeah Im thinking 2 weeks is an ambitious estimate. Ive not heard or seen of any actual date just hearsay.

Maybe we should start separate threads on how much was in your first wage packet, first car and favourite tv programs lol

Wresting with Big daddy,Giant haystacks, Mick McManus and British bulldog...

Ski sunday?

The muppets on a sunday teatime

The goodies with Tim Brooke Taylor Graham Gardner and Bill Odie...

Then there where all the tv commercials that don't happen anymore. The hamlet cigar adverts especially. Advertising ciggys on the F1 cars - the likes of JPS lotus and embassy spring to mind. Back when racing was real racing....

Darts on Tv with players drinking pints and having a fag in there hand as they are throwing

Alex Higgins half cut attempting to play snooker chain smoking.

Oh yeah Felicity Kendall, I never looked at her arse as she was always quite chilly and talk about scammel wheelnuts...

Yeah remember the conkers and the things we would try to do to make them the best.How about dutch arrows those things would go for miles if you made a good one.

Black widow catapults, gat pistols and pea shooters with haricot beans, slapsies at school....

We still didn't have mains leccy when I left to go to uni.

 

I loved haymaking, 'stooking' little square bales so they could get picked up by the clamp from when I was about 9 (or at least trying).

 

The best bit was at the end, working in 'the hole' at the top of the elevator.

 

On the last night when it was all in, me and my brothers would be allowed a can of McEwans Export, and we'd sit and force it down, while my Dad and the farmer drank and chatted away. Magic times.

 

 

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Hell I never knew which was the best place. "in the hole" before the end normally meant slinging the bale back to someone who maybe stacking or you done it on your own and everytime you turned to walk back to the elevator there would be 3 upended trying to be sucked under the elevator.

On the trailer meant walking back and forth, when unloading the rider lane and top couple of layer could mean dropping the bale down on the elevator only to see it bounce of onto the floor meaning you would have to hump it up onto the elevator later, and the bottom couple of layers meant humping them up anyway - moreso on low loader trailers.

The big issue with the perry loader meant depending on what you where loading would only go upto about 7-8 layers high which meant loading the the last few layers from the rear of the trailer and trying to pile them up high on top the trailer to them take them down a few layers to stack them at the end.

Lol til death us do part - with Alf Garnett

And "in sickness and in health" with Marigold that got banned in the end lmao. Cant see why...

Hell tumble drier? What was that? It was all twin tub washing machines back then...