Thread: Best chainsaw.

So Stihl is the clear winner here.

I have never been payed to use a saw directly, but have used many saws of varying brands fairly extensively.

What do I own?



Your gonna laugh.



The first saw I "owned" was a 32cc "Tallon tough tools" 32cc saw.after using all sorts of saws, sizes and brands this for home firewood at a 150 bucks may even have been less.

Its no secret I have some kind of obsessive compulsive thing with anything that is sharp and anything that runs on fuel, it can always go better!

The original 16? Inch bar and chain did a tank of fuel at 20 to1 and super hard work to run it in then it all came to bits.

Full strip and porting and custom but still "sociable" exhaust and 4 inches extra bar and it would CONSISTANLY out cut the old mans 40 something husky.

Due to mostly running the next pitch down chain I suspect.
(and possibly my obsession with things that are sharp, I would never sharpen on site I would take three chains and change if necessary) on pine logs off the ground(full bar but only one cut) the difference was very noticeable.

Not a standard saw against a standard saw and if I had to hang onto one all day every day it would be a husky or stihl but it does show what can be done with very limited cash.

That saw eventually died because the baker light block to carby thing I had ported eventually cracked, motor still good after getting close to hundreds of cords of firewood mostly native hard woods and a fair bit of blind cutting.

I got another the same but 34 cc and left it standard apart from bar and tuning, both of em the primer bulb has perished.

They both cut way out if proportion(with a bit of fettling) for there size and dollars.

You wou;d be a mug to buy one for commercial use, they vibrate like hell and need fuel up every 20min. But geese you can make em cut like fu^k!


When I was a young fella my high school sweethearts old man was a fairly legendary chainsaw racer, showed me a carb off a 40cc saw that was way bigger than my 125 motorcroser.

8 seconds for an engine(two races) and 40 hours into sharpening a chain ,Fastidious.

I always take down drags to suit the engine and wood being cut, lower drags for hard wood modded engine, standard drag height can be to much for softwoods, low torque big bar .

If you really want to cut wood its a science(sharpening)