New chainsaw purchase, but lost an old friend today...

[motownbrowne]

Congrats. Sounds like you got the saw you need. I will add that a 70cc saw like that one is really ideal as part of a2 saw plan. What I mean is that since your main saw is big, heavy and powerful, having a small lightweight second saw will help get more work done with less fatigue. Something like that ms250 would do the job. An ms241 or 261 would be better, but they're over $500. You could find a used 026 or ms260, though.

Again, congrats.

 

[KubotaToy]

Congrats. Sounds like you got the saw you need. I will add that a 70cc saw like that one is really ideal as part of a2 saw plan. What I mean is that since your main saw is big, heavy and powerful, having a small lightweight second saw will help get more work done with less fatigue. Something like that ms250 would do the job. An ms241 or 261 would be better, but they're over $500. You could find a used 026 or ms260, though.

Again, congrats.

I agree, even to the point that I may go to a three saw plan, they are going to try to rebuild my 250 from several old parted out saws and I also really liked the ms201 T.

 

[JRobyn]

I got tired of always having to start our cheapy leaf blower for my wife. The fan blade drug on the housing just enough to make starting a pain. So for her birthday, I told her she could get a "good" one. All she really wanted was easy starting and good power. We now own a Stihl BR 600 Magnum backpack! She likes it so much that she uses it a lot more. I swear it will blow the grass out by the roots if you're not careful. Super-easy starting with the 4-Mix engine. It was expensive, but we both couldn't be happier.

- Jay

 

[GreenYellow]

Had a scary moment a while back and almost lost a heirloom saw. Was cutting a BIG back-leaning oak. For the big cuts, I was using my (now deceased) grandpa's 85cc Husqvarna, which was handed down to me. He bought it new it 1976 and it still runs like nobody's business.
Anyway, the tree was back-leaning, but not too much. We were using wedges, and felt like we could tip it with the wedges. (pulling it with the tractor was problematic because of space) I got all the cuts made with just an inch or 2 of hinge wood left. Dad was driving wedges while I was cutting. We raised the tree from back-leaning to perfectly straight up. I bumped the saw a little to tip it, but cut through too much of the hinge wood. The tree twisted and sat on the bar. There wasn't a chance of getting the bar out with the 30,000 lb tree sitting on it -- still standing straight up. It was clear we had to pull with the tractor. We got that rigged up.
Since the tree twisted a little, it was going to fall right where the saw was. I unbolted the power head from the bar and chain before I pulled the tree over. The tree fell exactly where the saw was and would have obliterated it. I breathed a big sigh of relief...

Congrats on the new saw!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

She likes going to the Stihl shop as much as I do, she likes her Stihl trimmer and leaf blower.

I have a great wife, she bought me my L45 TLB for Christmas 3 years ago without me knowing about it. My JD backhoe was just about on its last cylinder and a rebuilt motor was not cheap so she worked a deal with the Kubota dealer and got a better deal than I was offered the several times I tried to buy one from them. She even got them to deliver it Christmas morning.

Cool.

 

[Jstpssng]

Nice saw. At least you didn't put the 250 in the tractor bucket and forget about it... unlike somebody I know well. (It's a sickening feeling when you're leveling off a spot, and notice the saw between the front tires. I never did find all of the pieces.)
I am wondering how old your son is though... it seems like if he's old enough to run a saw, he should be old enough to maintain it.

 

[turnkey4099]

Nice saw. At least you didn't put the 250 in the tractor bucket and forget about it... unlike somebody I know well. (It's a sickening feeling when you're leveling off a spot, and notice the saw between the front tires. I never did find all of the pieces.)
I am wondering how old your son is though... it seems like if he's old enough to run a saw, he should be old enough to maintain it.

Or, when backing up the truck, you see the oil jug, then the gas can, then the caddy that was carrying them appear knowing that the next object will be that new saw you just bought. BTDT. Dealer wouldn't even give me a "volume discount" when I went in to buy another one.

Harry K

 

[s219]

However, my faithful MS250 died a horrible death this morning, a 30" maple rolled while cutting root ball off, bound the blade and slowly rolled over the saw.

You're a patient man tacking a 30" maple with an MS250. I think that tree did you a favor!

 

[Loadstar]

A good friend tracked over his 290 with a caterpillar 953. Luckily he was watching his 090 while tracking over the 290. There was absolutely not one salvageable piece left. I have a mess of old saws also that need to go out in a blazing glory like yours.

 

[brt]

Whatever saw you have, do yourself a huge favor and don't use pump gas/oil mix in it. The new gas out there can destroy a saw's carburetor fast if it is not used every day. The carb parts get gummed up when the pump gas breaks down. Buy the pre-mixed "Ehtanol-Free" stuff at your local saw shop or the big box stores. It comes in 50:1 and 40:1 mixes so it can be used in whatever 2-stroke machine you have. The extra cost is worth the lack of maintenance headaches.

I was a career firefighter for 37 years and we started noticing saws would not run right all of the time. It turned out that the old-school pump gas and oil mixture we were using was damaging the saws. We switched to the per-mixed method and all of our saws, (over a hundred) saw an immediate reduction in carb problems and an increase in dependability. The vast majority of the saws were Stihl, but the advice is universal. My home saw is a Stihl Farm Boss.