NibbanaFarm
Silver Member
I have a Husqvarna 445 X-TORQ with 16" and 20" bars. First day I brought it home and used it I left it in the shed overnight. The next morning there was a pool of oil under the saw. Happened a couple more times so I returned it to the dealer. He kept it about 2 months, returned it to me and said he couldn't find anything wrong with it. But no more oil leak. According to YT there is a known problem with Husq chainsaws where the oil tube becomes detached and the oil leaks out. There are some good videos on fixing this problem. No big deal but it isn't a quick fix. Besides this problem the saw came from the dealer very lean. It would frequently die when releasing the throttle quickly from under load. After I learned how easy it was to remove the plastic limiters and adjust the mixture properly it has run excellently. Probably been using it for a good 10 years now and love the saw. It doesn't have a lot of power but that doesn't really bother me as I'm not in such a hurry anymore.
I cut up a few blow downs and take down a few trees a year for firewood. I built an Alaskan sawmill last year for fun and sawed some spruce but probably won't do a lot of that as there are local sawmills. So I don't do a lot of chainsaw work and don't need a super high power top of the line saw. My 20" bar is just a little too small for some of the trees I have. (For example I have a dead Ash that I want to take down that is right about 20" BHD. And I had a huge 24"+ American Basswood blow down in a storm a few weeks ago.) Am considering the Husqvarna 460 Rancher with a 24" bar available at TractorSupply for $600.
I'm a little gun shy about the oil leak problem but can fix it if they haven't corrected this. I very much like that the saw is easy to tune. It's not an Autotune model. I don't want to have to take a saw to the shop, wait for weeks and pay hundreds of dollars to get an adjustment or repair because I don't have a lot of knowledge of microelectronics or special training. That would bother me. It wouldn't surprise me if my 445 lasts another 20 years with no trips to a dealer. I also need a compression release and won't buy a saw without one.
Your thoughts? Chime in please.
Nibbana
I cut up a few blow downs and take down a few trees a year for firewood. I built an Alaskan sawmill last year for fun and sawed some spruce but probably won't do a lot of that as there are local sawmills. So I don't do a lot of chainsaw work and don't need a super high power top of the line saw. My 20" bar is just a little too small for some of the trees I have. (For example I have a dead Ash that I want to take down that is right about 20" BHD. And I had a huge 24"+ American Basswood blow down in a storm a few weeks ago.) Am considering the Husqvarna 460 Rancher with a 24" bar available at TractorSupply for $600.
I'm a little gun shy about the oil leak problem but can fix it if they haven't corrected this. I very much like that the saw is easy to tune. It's not an Autotune model. I don't want to have to take a saw to the shop, wait for weeks and pay hundreds of dollars to get an adjustment or repair because I don't have a lot of knowledge of microelectronics or special training. That would bother me. It wouldn't surprise me if my 445 lasts another 20 years with no trips to a dealer. I also need a compression release and won't buy a saw without one.
Your thoughts? Chime in please.
Nibbana