tacticalturnip
Elite Member
I've got a rear handle, but you folks make me wonder if maybe I went wrong. 

stuffed crank!echo 271T = no thank you. My 94 poulan top handle built better then that thing.
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Your top handle Echo is nowhere near as good of a saw as the 2511 is. The 271 is not a fan favorite by any stretch of the imagination.Joncutter... What is it for, cutting up toilets? I'll keep my top handle Echo thank you. Far as saws go, any saw, Chinese or not will cut good with a properly sharpened chain....
I will say the Echo really requires breaking in a bit, couple tankfulls of syn gas (Echo Red Armor) in my case, bring the best out if the saw and it's my favorite for limbing and smaller dialeter cuts and it don't need no stinking, noisy Egan muffler either. Always fires up second pull as well.