Thread: Best chainsaw.

That is absolutely cheating. Wicked.

Just bought my first chainsaw so I can help out with firewood on the missus place, wee MS180

Originally Posted by TeRei

That is absolutely cheating. Wicked.

Not cheating, just doing it smart (must be a south island thing )

Originally Posted by Timmay

Just bought my first chainsaw so I can help out with firewood on the missus place, wee MS180

Good saw

I'd have to say Stihl......
Ms660 are best... don't like the new model 661 designed for new fuel emissions not a same type of power


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i brought my husky 2nd hand about 15 years ago, never had to do anything other than the standard service, ive got mates that are both abourists and forestry workers each to their own ive always been told still are a better saw but noone can tell me why i always wanted a still but my husky turned up for the right price and ive never looked back, end of the day its how you look after them, my old man had a firewood bussiness back in the 70's and brought a poulan, 4 decades later still has it and it still goes strong.

Back in my young (idiotic?) day a mate and I used to do clear felling every weekend. Usually shitty macrocarpras (widow makers), usually on roadside boundaries with either power or telephone lines running beside.
We ran all Stihl saws, an 045 (75cc, nice for limbing) 2x 075s (111cc) and a 090 (137cc). Towards the end of the day my arms used to cramp badly using the 090.
My mate had worked in the bush in Taupo. In those days Stihl was the front runner with Jonserads and Partners (later gobbled up by Husqvarna) distant seconds. The beauty of the Stihl, apart from its reliability was the very strong service support. A broken saw could quite often be dropped off at the repair shop and someone would work back on it and it would be available for pickup early next am.
My first saws were Pioneers the last one a 2400 which kept shaking itself to bits. All screws were loctited in. I later dropped a tree on it – RIP Pioneer. In their day the Pioneer motors were half reasonable kart engines.
I still have 3 smaller Stihl saws although the 045 motor is now fitted to a 2 man post hole borer.

Without wanting to create a fight sometimes this comparison is like the 223 debate i.e. you can't shoot stags or deer with them because they are too small.Most saws[whatever the model] react well to care and being sharpened properly including the rakers.

Originally Posted by bomber

I'd have to say Stihl......
Ms660 are best... don't like the new model 661 designed for new fuel emissions not a same type of power


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Yea 660 and 440 awesome saws

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Sthil all day. working for a guy doing firewood in the holidays and after using a husky all day then jumping on the bosses sthil for a bit, the sthil was miles better

Sthil all the way, when I managed a arborist company we had 30 + from 060t to a 880 now that was a awesome saw until you hit bomb shrapnel, then you had a lot of sharpening.

Bomb shrapnel ???

Originally Posted by Taff

Sthil all the way, when I managed a arborist company we had 30 + from 060t to a 880 now that was a awesome saw until you hit bomb shrapnel, then you had a lot of sharpening.

Do you mean second world war bomb shrapnel still stuck in trees?!

Originally Posted by 300CALMAN

Do you mean second world war bomb shrapnel still stuck in trees?!

Might just have been engine shraps from the other Stihls

Yep ww2 bomb shrapnel in Portsmouth and Gosport, plenty of it around still, when in the new forest there was a oak tree with a gun barrel driven into it, the story went that a soldier returning from WW1 put it there.