Windthrown

Oooooooh, you are gonna like the results of putting those on your saws. Be sure to re-tune the carbs to richen up the mix after the DP mufflers are fitted though. Otherwise they will run too lean from the increased air flow, overheat and score the cylinders. You do not want to do that. Then enjoy the increase in power. They will eat gas even faster than before though. My 660 is a gas hog.

...and no baffles in the muffler base, as well as larger jetted carb in the Oz 660.

Also, from the German arbor site I got this information (from 7 in Austria): Stihl MS661 (Mtronic and non-Mtronic) chainsaws with serial numbers between 177 367 909 and 177 751 744 have been recalled in Europe. There are no non-Mtronic MS661 sold in the US, but apparently they are being sold in some places in Europe. I am not aware of a similar recall in the states. The recall consists of replacing the cylinder, piston, rings, cylinder gasket and intake boot.

And yes, the 661 is available here on the west coast of the US, finally. Not all dealers stock them yet though, and many have 660s still on the shelves. The 661 has not quite made an appearance in Oz yet. In Oz they have a better 660 than the ones they sell here and they have more power than the 661. US MS660 Power output (kW/bhp) 5.2/7.1 Oz MS660 Power output (kW/bhp) 5.7/7.6 MS 661 cm Power output (kW/bhp) 5.4/7.3

Yah, I know Niko well enough. I also knew his wife before she passed. He reminds me that I have lesser value Amurikan 361 saws all the time as compared to the EU 361s, among other things.

Yah, AS is a window onto the world of the weird these days. Saw builders dominate there now, and not many arbor guys or fallers there any more. I also wanted some feedback from here on stuff available only in the EU and not in the states. I would hang out on the German site more, but I get lost in translation. As I do here on the UK site from time to time... we speak the same language but the words mean different things across the pond. I am Windthrow (w/o the n) on Sawhogs, been there for a while. It gets rather rowdy there and senseless a lot of times.

I now have a new favorite saw! The 026 with a 16 in. PS Picco B&C is the dog's ballacks, as my friend from London would say. That saw is a light saber in maple burl, which I have been cutting into firewood. I cannot split it with a maul with all the the wavy grain, so I have to cut it into stove size splits with a chainsaw. This makes that job a dream. I can see why they rave about the PS/Picco B&C setup on a 261 in Germany. It cuts really fast with the much narrower kerf, and makes a lot fewer noodles and wood chips.

Also comparing rims, the 7 pin Picco rim is quite a bit larger than a 7 pin 3/8 std. rim on the 026. Supposedly they do not have a picco rim for a large spline Stihls here, and guys run 3/8 std. spur sprockets to drive them on larger saws. I cannot imagine running this bar on my 066, or even my 036. Its small stuff.

Oh yes, and the Stihl part numbers for Picco (low profile) bars with large Stihl mounts are: 16" 3003 000 6313 18" 3003 000 6317 20" 3003 000 6321

Ah, the Dark Season as my cousins call it in Norway. Here it is a balmy 61 deg. F. today (16+ C.), the sun is out and it is WARM! My cat is napping in the sun on the porch now. Oh yah, I got a Picco chain loop spun up for my 026 this morning. Turns out that the local Stihl dealer here has a spool of PS Picco Stihl chain and he fitted the 16" bar and P-7 pin rim with a 60, as you predicted. I also got a 55 link loop of the same stuff for my 211. I am gonna have me a fine pair of Piltz HOT SAWZ, minus the Piltz, minus the big rims, and minus the 32" bars. I also got myself another 361 saw in the mail yesterday, so I have some test cutting to do this afternoon.

I sold my Bandit chipper and stopped climbing when I was 52. I still rock and mountain climb for sport (weenie stuff), but no more climbing trees. Bad back & reactions getting too slow.

Saw that on the news here. UK's Mars probe landed but never sent anything back to Earth. The Beagle 2 program/mission manager died last year and never knew what happened to it. We must contact Optimus Prime and warn him about the Decepticons...

Here in Oregon and California redwood is commonly milled and used for outdoor decking and framing and in places that are wet and were wood eating bugs are. The high tannins in the wood are a preservative and more or less a bug deterrent. The deck at my house in California was made of redwood, and was riddled with termites when I sold that place. I lived in a house in central California that was made entirely of redwood, which was a common building material 100 years ago there.

My 441 is stock, and an older non-Mtronic. Depends on the wood, but full comp on the 25 inch bar on the 441. In softer fir/pine/hemlock/cedar I will usually up the rim drive to 8 pin with the 25 too for more chain speed. In hardwood I stay with a 7 pin rim. With a 28 inch bar on the 441 I usually use skip, or semi-skip with a 7 pin rim.

Make the above post 16 inch with 61 links (I cannot edit these posts after 10 minutes here). Piltz has some odd small and large mount Canon Super bars that he makes them for with 61 and 62 links.