Got 2 , the other is a 488, coil bad on it , have one ordered, it's a better looking saw than this one
Can't remember, but they are one of the most reliable saws I ever seen, I bought one in 2000 ,
49cc, I have acouple and really like them!
In my opinion, that hi top on the 488 is so ridiculously ugly! But it's so ugly that it's kinda cool and I can't help but want one!3 lovelies
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Yeps,In my opinion, that hi top on the 488 is so ridiculously ugly! But it's so ugly that it's kinda cool and I can't help but want one!
Could you/anybody please elaborate on this? Am (as someone else's sig says, I love & am stealing ;D ) an 'Echo-maniac' and was considering ordering an echo/shindaiwa sticker for my 355t* but if Shindaiwa owns Echo then I'd slap the shindaiwa sticker on instead (yes, corny like putting the acura badge on a riced-out honda, but my 355 is a ricer in some ways lol so it's alright
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Any&all info on current ownership (ie echo owns shin, or shin owns echo, or metabo owns both/is parent) would be appreciated, will certainly be reading this thread's entirety but was hoping to ask today, also allows me to ask something I already covered in another thread---Anyone have information on echo/shin transitioning to lithium?? Echo already has a "lithium 2511t", and I think the lack of any replacements/updates for the 355t(and its current MSRP) all indicate echo/shin could be setting-up to release the first "big top handle lithium" (everyone's got lil ones for 12" bars, nobody makes a 60-80V machine for 16" bars yet, not top-handled) Am needing to "buy-into" the lithium 'eco-system' of some company so I can get polesaw, blower and 12" top-handle units as my petrol ones go (anything <30cc seems replaceable at this point) but, after a bad initial experience w/ crappy 20V tools-- then falling in-love w/ the Ryobi 20V ecosystem and buying tons of it / still loving it today-- want to find "my ryobi" for real outdoor gear, only problem is everyone's(stihl, husq, echo) pumping 40V units and (IMO) 60V or 80V is what'll be needed / "the set-point"/default for outdoor-tools of this nature, so when I saw Shindaiwa's new(ish?) 60V string-trimmer I got real excited, am guessing echo/shind batteries would interchange and a 60V platform is necessary/requisite for a 30cc-equivalency IMO, pisses me off seeing so much gear made on a 40V platform by husq/stihl/echo I mean that's ryobi/home depot territory(40V blowers..though I will admit I've been impressed with every current-year 40V product I've used, though some 40V's in prior years have flat-out sucked...hell at 20V a ryobi angle-grinder could hardly push a cut-off wheel I had to return that tool, want the 'cushion' of a 60V lineup if possible!)
Voltage doesn't mean as much as power. It's kind of like torque or rpm don't mean much individually, but together you get power. A 60v battery of the same physical size as a 12v battery will get the same amount of run time (watt hours or X power over an hour). Actually a lower voltage battery should run longer and/or weigh less because fewer individual cells are needed, so that reduces the size and weight of cell dividing material. Higher voltage batteries can't put out as many amps as lower voltage batteries because smaller individual cells are used, but the reduction in output amps is more or less cancelled out by the higher voltage. Low voltage systems require physically smaller electronic components to run other than wire gauge to compensate for increased current, so a lower voltage saw might end up smaller and lighter. I'd like to build a 4v chainsaw to out cut a 120v battery chainsaw just to prove the point, but parts rated for such low voltage are not too commonly available, and so not all that affordable or practical to use. Voltage will be the selling point when it comes to electric chainsaws just because it is a number that can get bigger and bigger.Could you/anybody please elaborate on this? Am (as someone else's sig says, I love & am stealing ;D ) an 'Echo-maniac' and was considering ordering an echo/shindaiwa sticker for my 355t* but if Shindaiwa owns Echo then I'd slap the shindaiwa sticker on instead (yes, corny like putting the acura badge on a riced-out honda, but my 355 is a ricer in some ways lol so it's alright
Am always curious on brands in fact will be making a new thread in this sub right-after posting this
Could you/anybody please elaborate on this? Am (as someone else's sig says, I love & am stealing ;D ) an 'Echo-maniac' and was considering ordering an echo/shindaiwa sticker for my 355t* but if Shindaiwa owns Echo then I'd slap the shindaiwa sticker on instead (yes, corny like putting the acura badge on a riced-out honda, but my 355 is a ricer in some ways lol so it's alright
[edited-in: *= @FergusonTO35 are you meaning you like the neon-orange? Am not a fan myself actually I dislike it, kinda weird because I feel like it's identical to Husq-orange and I like my all-orange Husq unit... Think it's that the echo units just have a "slicker" aesthetic and don't do as well in the utilitarian orange(or whites) of stihl/husq, Shindaiwa's deeper red- at least in pictures- does the designs far more justice!
