Jack's statement was more to the point he felt anything more than 32" was asking too much of a 462 buried in wood like he sees, and starting to be a handful on the end of such a light saw(13.5 lbs). Jack is not only a far, far more experienced faller than most of us here, he's also a very competent builder. I've ran his saws, and I own one of TreeMonkey's saws I got from the trade section here. Both great saws. Also have ran Brads and Randy's and Stumps and a fair few others, including my own ported saws, whether owned or at GTG's while I was cutting and cruising in the PNW, and had several talks about building saws on the phone with Randy nearly 10 years ago when he was deciding to get in to it. I think they are all good saws. I also think fighting over seconds is a far worse waste of time than the seconds save us to start with. I hope we don't spend too much effort getting caught up in the worthless 'builders wars' we've seen in other forums. Being tribal is fun and all, but I don't see the point there. They are just saws.
My post was mainly to show the differences between the STihl approach in the 462 and the Husky approach in the 572. No one else has them torn down side by side in a video like Jack has. So his view points and findings are very interesting here. I'm amazed the Stihl can pull so strong with such an over square design. But I think by design, it was set up for the European market where they use shorter bars. Which leads me to believe there's something very strong coming from Stihl between the 462 and 661 in the future more for PNW type work.
