EFSM
Super OPE Member
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- Apr 30, 2024
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- Extreme southern IL
We have had an excessive number of failures over the years with the brake handle engagement tabs on Echo CS-600p and 620p models. Echo finally agreed to reinforce the tab and they sent us a batch to try. I'm curious to see if anyone else has been having issues. Most of the failures we saw were with a forestry company who is cutting invasive species and performing timber stand improvement, so the saw is cutting a 3" tree, getting the chain brake engaged, and then disengaged a few steps away to cut another tree, hundreds of times a day. I've been installing the upgraded handles on a few saws over the past month and did it on a whole batch of theirs yesterday. The engagement tab is much stiffer--they filled in the cavity in the previous version and added an additional brace.