The most "Overrated" saw you own/owned ?

[Bigmac]

Do a base gasket delete, DP muff, timing advance the timing, put a HD2 filter on it, and some square chain, that ms170 will be a completely different saw....

a 170 is a clamshell..and no hd2 filter is available..

 

[Bigmac]

My most overrated saw is.... my 076, my homie 750 will run circles around it!!

 

[Bigmac]

An ms170...just didn’t work for me, I did a mm, timing advance and adjustable carb...and I feel like my pole saw will take it...

 

[old 040]

The most over rated saw I've ever owned? $tihl.....most any one of them

Agreed.....I've recently had a few chances to be employed at OPE dealers that are Stihl dealers, I passed on each opportunity just because of that. I've always been in the service area and not sales, so I guess from a sales standpoint it might be a good plan for the unsuspecting costumers, I did work for a local hardware that was a Stihl dealer doing their service work back in the late 80's through the mid 90's and it was a different story then, I've never worked for another OPE that carries Stihl since.

 

[TreeLife]

Honestly? Ms461. The one I've run oils like crap, doesnt particularly have any great power either. It is a stocker, but I really expect it to be able to utilize a 24" bar better than it does. The 372xp the logging company bought before I left would smoke this thing.

 

[Mutley]

I have to admit a chuckle a little every time I hear something like this, as the plastics on the 7900 are PA6-GF-30 which is the exact same plastic used by Stihl and Husky. Well I see some PA6-GF-15 on on Husky saws, but mostly GF-30. Pretty much all of it comes from DuPont.[emoji111]

Of the 3 saws in the picture, the Echo is the only one I still have. All 3 worked on the same jobs. You can see the degeneration in the plastics on the 660, but it had done a LOT of work by then. The 7901 was still quite new. Sadly I don't have pics, but it had holes like 10c coins in the clutch cover before it got much older.

I actually wash my saws after cutting palms, but on those 2, it didn't help. The Echo has light abrasions in the plastic around the chain brake on the inside of the clutch cover after 9+ years of the same work, but nothing like the 660 in the pic & definitely nothing like the 7901. I wouldn't know about Husqvarna, as I don't own any.

I cut Canary Island Date Palms & Washingtonia Palms quite regularly & they are the culprits. Maybe I'm expecting too much from the plastics?

 

[XP_Slinger]

Of the 3 saws in the picture, the Echo is the only one I still have. All 3 worked on the same jobs. You can see the degeneration in the plastics on the 660, but it had done a LOT of work by then. The 7901 was still quite new. Sadly I don't have pics, but it had holes like 10c coins in the clutch cover before it got much older.

I actually wash my saws after cutting palms, but on those 2, it didn't help. The Echo has light abrasions in the plastic around the chain brake on the inside of the clutch cover after 9+ years of the same work, but nothing like the 660 in the pic & definitely nothing like the 7901. I wouldn't know about Husqvarna, as I don't own any.

I cut Canary Island Date Palms & Washingtonia Palms quite regularly & they are the culprits. Maybe I'm expecting too much from the plastics?

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Have you tried coating the inside of the cover with WD40 or something like it to protect the metal?

 

[Tor R]

The 346's were hit and miss, some were dogs others were screamers. I have a mostly stock 346 that will hang with fully ported saws.

some of them was hot rod, some of them was turds.
I had a OE 2000 model with huge bewels in all ports, we needed to cut the base 35th to get rid most of them, that factory jug couldnt perform well the way it came from Mahle.
In their service manual they recomend us to mount the boot step by step to the jug, bellow, partition wall, clamp, one by one. This is something Husky never did themself, they slapped home the boot in one piece to the jug, hence why we quite often see a crack in the bellow around the impulse area.
346 is an amazing saw ergonomics, but their build quality was so-so.

 

[hseII]

Now how in the hell did you find that pic? you must be spying on me.

That’s me Pawpaw.

 

[Mutley]

Have you tried coating the inside of the cover with WD40 or something like it to protect the metal?

Thanks for the suggestion, but the metal actually holds up pretty good - I have a couple of HT75's that work mostly on palm fronds & the older one was bought new in 2003. It has some minimal pitting in the metal in the power head, but no big deal really. Come to think of it, the plastics on those hold up pretty good too.

 

[Backtroller]

I use fluid film on snowblowers. Lasts much longer than wd40. Won’t harm plastics or metal

 

[pro94lt]

I've had 3 262xps 2 have been excellent runners, one was bought new by an old man and I don't know that he ever put it in wood. Sadly it had no power at all. A stock 346 easily had more power... the other 2 that wasn't the case... also had a ms362 that was the same... would bog and struggled with a 20" bar... with that said you really can't judge a particular saw by just running one of them. I never could figure out why both of them were so down on power...

 

[huskyboy]

I've had 3 262xps 2 have been excellent runners, one was bought new by an old man and I don't know that he ever put it in wood. Sadly it had no power at all. A stock 346 easily had more power... the other 2 that wasn't the case... also had a ms362 that was the same... would bog and struggled with a 20" bar... with that said you really can't judge a particular saw by just running one of them. I never could figure out why both of them were so down on power...

I try not to base my opinion on one saw. Had a 576 that couldn’t hang with my cheap azz chinese cylinder 372 at the time. Complete pooch. I then ran another stock 576 later on that was impressive.

 

[TreeLife]

I try not to base my opinion on one saw. Had a 576 that couldn’t hang with my cheap azz chinese cylinder 372 at the time. Complete pooch. I then ran another stock 576 later on that was impressive.

I had the same thing happen. Had one for demo, thought it was a dog. Picked a used up in mint condition and it was an EXCELLENT powerhead.

 

[maulhead]

a 170 is a clamshell..and no hd2 filter is available..

Yes, I know.

That post was a joke. 80-90% of the people who read it will get it. Others not so much...

 

[Dub11]

Yes, I know.

That post was a joke. 80-90% of the people who read it will get it. Others not so much...

I call BS that's real truth!

 

[Woodpecker]

I call BS that's real truth!

Gots to b troof because it's on the interwebz

 

[maulhead]

I call BS that's real truth!

Of course it was true....

 

[mdavlee]

That’s a Mike Lee inspired Zoo City Saws 066.

Ill let you run it at the GTG: you’ll see.

What’s that hack know anyway? Id like to run it compared to the others I did at the end

 

[Onan18]

Of course it was true....

That's a good one, I always preferred this one myself.