Echo vs Husqvarna

[Industrial Toys]

I should know the model number of my new Echo before I talk about it. The only really annoying thing is, how many pulls it often takes to get it going from cold. And last weekend it through me for a loop. Usually if you don't use a saw for an hour (especially at zero degrees) you need to choke it again. I did that, and it wouldn't start. Took choke off, and it started!

 

[Jstpssng]

I should know the model number of my new Echo before I talk about it. The only really annoying thing is, how many pulls it often takes to get it going from cold. And last weekend it through me for a loop. Usually if you don't use a saw for an hour (especially at zero degrees) you need to choke it again. I did that, and it wouldn't start. Took choke off, and it started!

I don't know how new your Echo is, but mine started hard for the first couple of tanks. It would take a dozen or more pulls before it would even fire. I would sometimes get disgusted and go back to my Poulan, just as I often had to do when running my 545 Husky. As I've used it more though, the Echo is running better and better. Unlike the experience which some have posted of their saws running lean from the factory, mine was running too rich. I don't like to touch the carbs until they are broken in though, so I haven't adjusted it yet.

Sometimes I think that I would be better off with one like what Buckeye Farmer posted, although I didn't see where you put the B&C oil.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I don't understand why the gas and oil filler have different profiles for opening. I have decent hand strength but can't open either without a tool. The two finger tabs are useless.

I liked Huskies hex drive caps and used them on my Stihls.

 

[two_bit_score]

View attachment 631235 if only it came in a right handed crank.

No need to mix oil or buy that Tru-Fuel!

 

[two_bit_score]

I don't know how new your Echo is, but mine started hard for the first couple of tanks. It would take a dozen or more pulls before it would even fire. I would sometimes get disgusted and go back to my Poulan, just as I often had to do when running my 545 Husky. As I've used it more though, the Echo is running better and better. Unlike the experience which some have posted of their saws running lean from the factory, mine was running too rich. I don't like to touch the carbs until they are broken in though, so I haven't adjusted it yet.

Sometimes I think that I would be better off with one like what Buckeye Farmer posted, although I didn't see where you put the B&C oil.

I had to get my Stihl TS 420 cut off saw out the other day after it’s been setting up over a year. Was thinking about all the hard start posts in this thread wondering how difficult it would be to start that engine. It has always been easy to start but it was left with some fuel in it so I was expecting some trouble.

Poured some fresh MotoMix fuel in to freshen up the old fuel and couple pulls and it fired right up. Ran a little rough at first but I let it idle awhile and reved it some. Shut it off and started it up then used it about an hour pretty constantly cutting some pipe and it never faltered. That thing is a pleasure to run and use!

 

[PILOON]

Unlike the experience which some have posted of their saws running lean from the factory, ---------

Chain saws are relatively small engines therefore very susceptible to changes in atmospheric pressure.
More than a few times I have seen professional tuneups needing adjustment at our elevation that is close to 1500 ft.

--------that factory might be at sea level while the user was possibly at a fairly high elevation.

LOL, next we need turbochargers for saws.

 

[Oaktree]

I should know the model number of my new Echo before I talk about it. The only really annoying thing is, how many pulls it often takes to get it going from cold. And last weekend it through me for a loop. Usually if you don't use a saw for an hour (especially at zero degrees) you need to choke it again. I did that, and it wouldn't start. Took choke off, and it started!

Mine's a CS-670 and it's always been that way. Even in warm weather you need to choke it if it's been sitting a half hour or longer.
That having been said, I was doing some trail clearing a while back with our snowmobile club and it didn't seem like the guys who had Stihls were much easier to start, maybe even a little harder.

 

[goeduck]

Every saw I have had, I turn the choke off after 1 or 2 pulls and pull the cord SHARP. Do not leave the choke on and flood it. In the rare case where I flood one, I have to pull it the 10, 12 times to unflood it and start it. Do not flood it and you are better off.

 

[yomax4]

Someday they will come up with a way to have a small check valve in the gas hose so the fuel doesn't return to the tank every time you set the saw down. That would reduce the number of pulls to start.

 

[Oldpath05]

Or Someday the chainsaw manufactures will get the finger out their donkey and re-invent the wheel by bringing back electric starting chainsaws!!!!!
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