pfft...
with the location of the presence lever (which i see you deleted) it can make it difficult if u are cutting a limb thats not that high up. as i said its hard to explain the issue, but
@Woodpecker hit on it as well.
Yep if your hands are below about chest high and slightly behind you the presence lever is tricky. I got the loop handle because it's easier to operate higher up which it does do fine. I despise trying to put the shoulder strap on over my helmet and ear muffs. Ain't nobody got time to wrestle the shoulder strap.
Having gotten some more real-world use in, I found I like to have the option to strap but I'm using a 10" loop that I just put over my left-shoulder (not helmet) and it comes-off the pole much higher-up-shaft (because mine's got that overlay bracing so I re-did strap position), it lets me just drop my left-hand and on one job where I was on a roof it was amazing to be able to just keep 'letting go' without having to rest the thing down on the roof especially once I had it extended!)
And totally see what you mean now Re presence-trigger, am glad mine's gone (you could always just use a strip of black duct-tape and peg it down, permanently
) I guess that mine's "more dangerous" because of this but I just can't fathom *how*, I mean for regular chainsaws sure but not when the cutter-head is 10' from the throttle ;P Didn't "delete" mine intentionally, it'd fallen-out and in figuring-out how to re-set the triggers I got the trigger working before getting the presence-lever on and, as I started working on the driveshaft, I just never got back to the presence lever / kinda decided-against putting it back, wasn't an intentional choice like my 1-finger-triggering of the throttle which, obviously, was retarded and now I have to order a new trigger lol, had thought "oh that'll let me have so much more control with my right-hand", w/o realizing it'd stop me from positioning my right hand lower on the loop for when I need to eek-out an extra couple feet of height from it!
yeah, it doesnt always work that way...
No, no it doesn't!!! Quite a difficult machine (mine's probably 5lbs heavier than stock, and since I haven't fixed the oiler it's always holding 95% full bar-oil ;P ), when I use it my shoulders/neck/back are just wrecked afterwards but I'm getting much better every time I use it, it seems it's all about just being aware to never be extending it forward 1" more-than-necessary, that front-lean is a killer (**really** wish I could rotate the angle of the bar/cutter-head, am getting one of those lightweight lil lithium units and it'll 100% have an angled(or adjustable) bar-angle, a straight-bar makes cutting palm-fruits next to impossible and, even cutting limbs with full clearance/no obstacles, the straight-upward bar angle still makes your cuts on the sides of the limb instead of higher-up to the top of the limb...I guess the idea, or at least how I'll be using them, is that the echo petrol unit is powerful and for bigger cuts IE stuff you'd wanna be further-back on the ground(which inherently gives the bar 'more angle' into the limb) and the angled-bar lithium Ryobi unit will be great for cutting palm-fronds that'll come right down on me since it's a short pole w/ angled-head. Seems a good combo, lightweight ryobi for minor stuff and petrol echo for bigger stuff (or when it's raining, which is on&off nearly every day in FL summers)
marketing. and you forgot the garbage string trimmer and blower line-up.
Ouch....didn't know anything good/bad Re their other lineups, just that their chainsaws are hit&miss...blows my mind echo & husq can't simply beat them despite it though, I'd love to see #'s for market-share but I see it as "if you've got the $$ to blow then husqvarna gear is pretty tops, otherwise w/ echo you can't go wrong....you can also spend husqvarna-money for echo-comparable gear[in most cases, obviously there's variance by models]", also of the 3 national chains (ace, h.depot and lowes) stihl is at the least-populous (and echo at the most-popular), really wish echo would be more aggressive w/ getting 2511's into brick&mortars..
Say hello to my little friends. They gave me a deal on both and honestly didn’t want to wait till fall to try this blower out.
Congrats!!! Cannot even tell what makes the 2620 different from my 266 but it is an awesome unit, a 12" on this pole cuts a lil better than the same 12" on my 25cc climb-saw (and I've hardly begun mods on the 266 yet because I haven't found the carb screws
), they're really spectacular machines (and the engine startup, re-starts and general operation especially smooth idling and drop-to-idle is just amazing, unlike any 2-stroke I've used even my new 355t isn't close to as smooth as the 266!)
I still have my echo pole pruner I bought at least 25 years ago, use to tie a 3/8 hemp rope on it pull it up in the tree and use it for dead wooding when I had my own business, that thing still runs to this day!
Heh, I had to do an Oak last week and using the pole from the roof made-sense for some of the cuts (heck, most of them were simply removing parts-of limbs so I could drop them later w/o them smashing the roof/gutter) but was alone for most of the job *and* didn't have a ladder.....I knew getting on/off that roof would be a nightmare & not something to do twice lol, so before monkey'ing my way up there I put a prussik around the front-collar of the pole (for 2-points of balance so it could be lifted horizontally, window-damage on the way up was too-risky) and then made loops/bights in my line for that, a blower, and my 355t....pulled them up gently, worked a charm!!!! Even lowering-to-ground was all smooth, except for my physical body lol where I had to do a jump/tuck&roll