Trailoftears
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Just fired off an email to stihl suggesting a new rainbow livery would increase sales.Also saw a post on an American forum from a guy who had his 261 ported and polished up-he reckoned it really WOKE it up 😘
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If only the O.P. had known what an absolute furore would ensue from a casual enquiry about a cheap top handled saw! We've whipped our k.scales out,mocked tasteless carpet designs,insinuated blue livery guys have sexual issues etc.YOU gotta love forums like this-keep it UP folks-ooer missus💅
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One of things everyone should keep handy-a mixed box of s.tapping screws,they solve so many problems.Most motor factors sell a mixed box pretty cheaply.While your'e there pick up a mixed box of split pins,washers,nylok nuts etc,etc 😁 So sad to see wilkos go.My not so local store did a pick&mix gig-you picked a plastic bag and could fill it with nuts/bolts/washers/split pins etc. Absolute Heaven.
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Oh God,given all my carpentry/decking construction tools are solidly Makita-I'm deffo a raving homosensual!Thought my Customer was giving me funny looks out of her window when I was 'Erecting' her new shed-now I know...
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I suppose most of us are conservative with a small c,and tend to stick with stuff we know and trust.I've not bought any echo stuff over the Years,but come close a few times.I will say,I have rarely-if ever heard anything bad about them.Most of my stuff is Stihl and I've probably spent say 10 grand on their small engined stuff and (generally) its been pretty good.However,I dislike the way more and more of their brushcutter/big backpack blowers are going 4 stroke-they may well be perfectly fine-but I simply dont want them.If I'm left with no choice of 2 stroke options-then husky/echo will get my business.
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Hardly a new or novel item,but well worth keeping in your glovebox-its earned its keep and got me and others out of jail,pretty much makes full size jump leads redundant.In particular it saved me so much hassle when returning from 14 days in Greece to find my elderly golf cabbies battery totally flat in the long stay airport car park.This one will start a 2l diesel at least twice and a 2l petrol mebbie 3 times I would guess.
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I do hope you cleaned up that k.scales like I hurriedly did! 🤫
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Self-tapping screws approx same length They'll bite really well into plastic given their coarser thread.
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Assuming you're referring to the bar studs-I think that stihl do a self tapping oversized replacement stud-I'd be surprised if Husky dont offer the same.
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Its a bit long-winded,but assuming there are decent bars/chains/shrouds involved etc, If you sold out all the bits its not inconceivable that you get close to the value of a decent 2nd hand one.Plus you get to pull things to bits too-happy days 👍
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It has to be said the Milwaukee/makita platform is well tried and tested by innumerable pro uses within multiple trades all over the World,whearas stihl/husky are pretty late to the battery party.The stihl battery platform looks confusing with Al/Ap etc.Do either firms offer rapid dual chargers I wonder? You would hope that the prices will slowly come down over the next 3 odd Years.I cant help feeling that the early adopters are paying for the massive R&D costs at the mo.
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Without knowing the scale/terrain of the sites its hard to be precise,but I would go for a 40cc cowhorn handlebar strimmer with 3mm+ square line/a big 60cc backpack blower to clean the slabs off plus a small boy with a tarp/large plastic rake to deal with the residual grass clippings where needed.Pay him with hamburgers and gravely point out the end result of disagreeing with his elders by nodding at some of the artistic momuments?
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Unique Problem? - New Clutch is getting hot and bogging under load
Trailoftears replied to dbrietzke's topic in Chainsaws
Being cynical, when I hear a sentence involving an ms250/BIG oak/all day-smoke/burning/puzzlement/rage and eventually tears would be exactly the outcome I would expect tbh. -
Damn,you spotted that did you?Note how I've left the scabbards/caby (and all the oily cack under the clutch covers)intact just to give you half a chance of competing 🦵
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A nice pair!? Suprised to see how heavy the battery saw is when compared like for like tbh-both fully loaded with fluids and scabbards on with 10" bars and picco 1.1 chains.
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Not a problem matey, I'll be boldy strapping on my 10" in the morn-whoops!Meant for my partner that...
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Never mind the samurais and DONT bring the kamikazes into this!I believe the Germans had the panzerfausts and panzers too-but that didnt go very well for either of them did it?Saying that,the Soviets had the T34's and also the Stalin organs but I'm not sure where the Russian chainsaws are at 🤔 Babushka.
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Slightly off topic,but isn't the msa 300 a full kilo heavier than the ms261?Which is just weird....
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Still competitive given its age tho-huh,huh?
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I forgive you Dahlink!
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Lovely hound,I had 2 of them many moons ago- bro+sis,mad as a box of frogs/needed shedloads of exercise but lovely temprements. 👍
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If I'm wrong,please feel free to call me a poppet-that would be one of the nicest insults Ive ever received tbh 💘
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Crikey, I'm asking for a hiding here,but I think the 5yr old makita I linked earlier is lighter than both of these saws (poppets) 💅
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Omg,tell me you Haven't pinned that lovely animal with 4.8mm round files to the horrific background! This is worse than the blair witch project.I'm off to the rspca hotline...
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Ah,I bow to your superior knowledge here,but remember being perplexed/pissed off with poor running issues on fairly new ones,and then having done the obvious checking of the air filter, assuming It was then a carb tuning issue (which it wasn't),One of those mysterious 'I can do without this hassle' issues.I can understand the hate, whether it is (or isn't) an issue,that now the e10 ptrol introduces to troubleshooting issues.
