I need chainsaw advice(Echo vs. Stihl)
05-30-2007, 07:00 PM
#11
Join Date: Feb 2006
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Posts: 180
RE: I need chainsaw advice(Echo vs. Stihl)
This question is really like asking what brand of bow is the best or what kind of truck is the best. Both of them are good saws, but if the Echo is cheaper I'd go with it. I promise you that you wont be dissapointed.
05-30-2007, 07:07 PM
#12
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Milwaukee Wi
Posts: 277
RE: I need chainsaw advice(Echo vs. Stihl)
Being an arborist I have tried a good many saws. I have 3 stihls and one huskavarna. I think the stihl has a slight advantage over the echo but they are both good saws. If they both had the same bar size andcc's I would just go with the cheaper of the two.
05-31-2007, 09:20 AM
#13
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: On an Island in Vermont
Posts: 22,605
RE: I need chainsaw advice(Echo vs. Stihl)
ORIGINAL: beaverdamva
Its a good powerful saw, but two years after i got it it started running rough and cutting out. After about 30 mins of checking the spark plug and so forth I realized that the fuel line was rotten and had a hole in it. I went to my dealer and showed him the rotten fuel line, he said "oh yeah I always replace the fuel lines on those saws when I am doing a tune up, they go bad". I asked him why stihl didn't change how they made the part if they were always going bad, his response, " they're only $7.50".
I wish I still had my 290 farm boss.
Its a good powerful saw, but two years after i got it it started running rough and cutting out. After about 30 mins of checking the spark plug and so forth I realized that the fuel line was rotten and had a hole in it. I went to my dealer and showed him the rotten fuel line, he said "oh yeah I always replace the fuel lines on those saws when I am doing a tune up, they go bad". I asked him why stihl didn't change how they made the part if they were always going bad, his response, " they're only $7.50".
I wish I still had my 290 farm boss.
06-03-2007, 06:11 PM
#17
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 321
RE: I need chainsaw advice(Echo vs. Stihl)
I have a Husky in the shed that is 7 years old.
I probably should have drained the fuel out before I stored it, but I didn't and it has gotten harder to start. It even fouled out the sparkplug one day when I let it run for about 5 minutes on the ground while I was dragging brush.
I bought mine at a local Sears Repair center for about 1/2 the price of a new one. The local Sears reconditions them back to new. They usually are ones that a customer bought and took home and did not run right when it was new.
Not something with 100 hours on it.
There was not a single scratch on this saw when I bought it.
18" bar - Rancher Model and I think I paid $150 for it - with no case or tools.
The new Husky's have a bulb on the side of the case that you have to prime before you start it. It seem's to have fixxed all the old hard start problems that they had before with their older models of saws - for a person that does not use it every week or even run a tank out gas out of it in 6 months.
Sitting with old fuel seems to have a bigger effect on them than running them everyday.
Huskvarna and Stihl and Johnsered are all made by the same company.
Just that one is a industrial model and the other ( Husky) is geared more towards the homeowner / weekend firewood cutter.
I probably should have drained the fuel out before I stored it, but I didn't and it has gotten harder to start. It even fouled out the sparkplug one day when I let it run for about 5 minutes on the ground while I was dragging brush.
I bought mine at a local Sears Repair center for about 1/2 the price of a new one. The local Sears reconditions them back to new. They usually are ones that a customer bought and took home and did not run right when it was new.
Not something with 100 hours on it.
There was not a single scratch on this saw when I bought it.
18" bar - Rancher Model and I think I paid $150 for it - with no case or tools.
The new Husky's have a bulb on the side of the case that you have to prime before you start it. It seem's to have fixxed all the old hard start problems that they had before with their older models of saws - for a person that does not use it every week or even run a tank out gas out of it in 6 months.
Sitting with old fuel seems to have a bigger effect on them than running them everyday.
Huskvarna and Stihl and Johnsered are all made by the same company.
Just that one is a industrial model and the other ( Husky) is geared more towards the homeowner / weekend firewood cutter.
06-05-2007, 04:30 PM
#18
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: May 2003
Posts: 2,175
RE: I need chainsaw advice(Echo vs. Stihl)
we have echos at work and they are always down. for occasional home use ive had several cheapies. bottom line is maitanance. oil- proprely mixed gas and sharp chain. drain when not in use. my cheapos always fire up.
