Cerberus
Cerberus the aardvark, not the hell-hound!!
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- 11523
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- Jan 20, 2020
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- Location
- Florida (tampa area)
Unsure what you mean by "offended me", I'd literally just said "I would never suggest somebody buy one".... I got the saw in-lieu of $25 owed-for-climb by some guy I used to work for, it's not worth $230 in today's marketplace by a long shot. Also the airbox mod & muff mod, obviously, boost the power but - of course - do not help the fact that it's a heavy turd!!I’m sorry I offended you but I do stand by the hitachi being a heavy turd even after the air box and muffler mod which I did to this saw.
I put my heaviest bar - the 'pro' echo 14" - onto it, it's my backup (that I've never had to use on a job in-tree) top-handle, I use my 25cc until its bar isn't long-enough and then swap to my 36cc, using the tanaka on-the-ground when it gets use (lol just in writing this I realize I haven't started it in at least a week and am now gg run outside just to turn him over & cut for a minute, hate when I realize a saw has been sitting )
I think I like the fact that I can have that mid-30cc's power - w/o using my 355t - if&when needed, for instance while it hasn't come-up yet I can imagine stuff where it's dirty-wood, actually am going to LA next week to do storm-felled/damaged treework and expect that he'll get a wholllle lotta usage on-ground out there! Funnily enough it seems to be a model that Reg Coates had ages ago when younger in his career (that just has a novelty to me as I've seen every last one of his vids )
Tanaka = heavy, and not worth the MSRP with so much greatness from Echo, but it's NEVER given me problems with reliability and it is most definitely as strong as it should be on its displascement, but top-handles are primarily for climbing so strength//weight matters so this saw, while "solid", isn't really a good option for anyone
Scheppach = best (or tied-for-best) clone of the zenoah-G2500 // Husqvarna T-425 platform, the csp2540 for $135 is epic, made much more like an echo than the tanaka(though the tanaka has never felt 'cheap' in any regard), not a 2511t but it's still my go-to saw simply due to form-factor & weight, and is the most-powerful-per-displacement of any of my saws.[edited-in: I should add that the 355t is newer and it still only gets used when the schepp is too-little for the cut IE not so often, so once my 355t is broken-in I expect it to have a better power//displacement profile but right now I can put a 16" on my 25cc schepp and still need pretty serious bar-pressure to bog the chain but I've got its 10" setup back on and it just *rips* with that, once 10" is insufficient the 355's power, if not just its bar-length, is usually desirable at this point anyway ]
Echo 355t & 2511t = best(seemingly/'I theorize') combo/pairing of climbsaws, couldn't imagine a 201 or 540 in-place-of my 355t, and while I don't(yet) own a 2511t it doesn't need much said for it, and this combo is $750 new-with-warranty(best warranty in the industry), that's nuts I mean the 2511t is one of the 'hottest' saws out for climbers right now and, for ~the price of a 201 or a 540, you can get both the 2511 + 355t's and you'd have your limbing- & takedown-saws