What's your favorite 70cc saw?

[dolmarkid]

You can always run a max flow

 

[MustangMike]

Like Mark Twain once said, there are lies, damn lies & statistics (he left out rounding).

Forgive me for being a #s guy, but: 76.5 - 70.7 = 8.2% increase.

Actual 576 weight 15.4 vs 14 = 10% increase. Different #s and methods will produce different results.

I have never found it hard to make a 044/440 run with a stock 460 w/o porting (do at home mods). Ported, the 460 really wakes up, and has a lot more toque. Running a 20" bar you should be very happy with the 440. Your stock 460 seems like a very strong one, so your results, and opinions, may be different than mine.

If I always bucked set up logs on a flat lawn I would not care what my saw weight is. When you are climbing through the woods, dealing with brush, steep slopes, & reaching to cut a limb, that is where the power to weight of a 044/440 shines.

It is also why I'm having a hybrid built, to have the best of both worlds.

FYI, I own both 044/440s and 046/460s, and use em all. It is not that I like one better than the other, I like them both, each has it's purpose.

That said, I prefer the 044/440s with 20" bars, and 046/460s with 24 & 28" bars. My ported 460s pull a 36" light bar very well (w RSLH), but the saw is very nose heavy with that bar on it. I'm getting an 066 partly because I believe it will balance better with than bar. A 044/440 with a 20" E bar will balance flat from the handle.

 

[junkman]

If your 044 only pulls a 20 inch bar something is wrong with it.

 

[mdavlee]

Like Mark Twain once said, there are lies, damn lies & statistics (he left out rounding).

Forgive me for being a #s guy, but: 76.5 - 70.7 = 8.2% increase.

Actual 576 weight 15.4 vs 14 = 10% increase. Different #s and methods will produce different results.

I have never found it hard to make a 044/440 run with a stock 460 w/o porting (do at home mods). Ported, the 460 really wakes up, and has a lot more toque. Running a 20" bar you should be very happy with the 440. Your stock 460 seems like a very strong one, so your results, and opinions, may be different than mine.

If I always bucked set up logs on a flat lawn I would not care what my saw weight is. When you are climbing through the woods, dealing with brush, steep slopes, & reaching to cut a limb, that is where the power to weight of a 044/440 shines.

It is also why I'm having a hybrid built, to have the best of both worlds.

FYI, I own both 044/440s and 046/460s, and use em all. It is not that I like one better than the other, I like them both, each has it's purpose.

That said, I prefer the 044/440s with 20" bars, and 046/460s with 24 & 28" bars. My ported 460s pull a 36" light bar very well (w RSLH), but the saw is very nose heavy with that bar on it. I'm getting an 066 partly because I believe it will balance better with than bar. A 044/440 with a 20" E bar will balance flat from the handle.

I was doing 44 to 46. I know a 576 is portly. Just like a 441. I did it all in my head and not a calculator.

 

[T.Roller]

Yall crack me up with all these numbers lol. If it works for you then it works, if not ok. If you wanna run a 16" on your 3120 more power to you. I run my saws the way I like. The only saw I have that has really made a lasting impression on me is my 395 with any sized bar

 

[Stihlsmoking]

May have a new favorite 70cc ?
Now I have two. I have had this one running but not in wood. Lol
Yes I know it needs a new handle.

 

[MustangMike]

If your 044 only pulls a 20 inch bar something is wrong with it.

The 044 pulls a 28" just fine through Red Oak, but you can lean on the ported 460s much more with that length bar.

Trust me when a tell you some good Hickory will slow it down a bit.

 

[MustangMike]

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Wash pattern for the round cylinder the d cylinder is over rated

I don't think that anyone would argue that a Hemi head is technically the better design. It just seems that those Mahle D Chamber cylinders generally came through with some good port timing, resulting in it being easier to get them to run well.

That D cylinder certainly did not seem to hurt your hybrid! That is a good running saw.

 

[srb08]

038M. Heavy old grunt monster.

 

[dall]

Mine needs cleaned

 

[Onan18]

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Mine needs cleaned

Good lord Dallas, don't let Al or Mike B. see it like that, it will give them a coronary!

 

[dall]

Good lord Dallas, don't let Al or Mike B. see it like that, it will give them a coronary!

that was when i first got it it has been cleaned some but havent taken cover off and clean

 

[dall]

id say that saw sat for a long time

 

[Onan18]

id say that saw sat for a long time

Probably

 

[dall]

some say i have too many saws lol

 

[Onan18]

some say i have too many saws lol

You don't need that kind of negativity in your life!

 

[a. palmer jr.]

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Mine needs cleaned

My 038 Magnum is my favorite saw in that class basically because it's the only one I have that size, got one bigger (Homelite 924) and several smaller. Mine just got rebuilt so it doesn't need cleaned...yet.

 

[T.Roller]

You don't need that kind of negativity in your life!

Best answer

 

[P.M.P.]

some say I don't have enough saws lol

Fixed it

 

[dall]

lol trying to talk onan joe into more saws lol hes a hard cookie to crack