CoreyB
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Wow but is it really any improvement over your 590?
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Dude that's a sweet looking saw, nice bar too!!! @Big Block
Big Block
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Thanks !!!
Big Block
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For the tree I have to cut down and buck and noodle I think it is. The 590 could do it but it would take forever with a 20" bar and I'd be working it to its limits. And I still really want a 620p
Big Block
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I need a 50 cc or a top handle saw next.
CoreyB
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I personally don't like the feel and handling of top handle saws. But I really like the rear handle versions of most top handle saws that offer them.
50cc saws are fun. Lots of great choices. I have seen some Dolmar 5100 on the tradin post. Oh and a ported echo 490! Those are light and a nice ergonomics.
Big Block
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I've been eye balling that 490 so much it thinks I want to pic a fight with it. I just don't think I want to be up in a tree with a rear handle saw. I may go rear handle and go old school hand saw for up in the tree.
James Miller
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I love my 490. With that sead if I did it over again I would get a 355t. I feel like it would be just as fast with a 14 as the 490 is with a 16 and if there's a lot of 12" or bigger stuff I just grab the 590 to start. The 355 is a factory hot rod Brad sead in his top handle comparison stock it will run with the timeing advanced muff modded 201ts that he does.
tpence2177
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372xp is kinda my dream saw. I would love to have one and even got tempted this week ( found a decent shape but on the rougher end runner locally for $260) I just don't have a need for one and have spent to much on saws lately. May still go back though lol. Congrats on your new saw. If I would have found that before I got my 590 I probably wouldn't have a 590 so it's all good
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Ummmm.......YES!!
Idahonative
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Just got back from a wood cutting trip with my cousin who runs a stock 372xp. I'm not sure about the 590 because I've never owned one but my MM'd and tuned 600 and 620 will out cut his 372...at least in 20" Red Fir. Maybe there was something wrong with his 372 but it just didn't seem to have the torque the Echo's had.
Chris J.
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With only 10cc difference (more or less) in size
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the smaller saw being MMd & retuned
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the larger saw being stock
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not surprising.
CoreyB
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I would be upset if my stock dolmar 6100 was getting out cut by a echo 490.
But it's a Dolmar and not a Husky so I don't think I have much to worry about.
Big Block
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I know for a fact my 372 out cuts my 590 and it had some serious mods. I couldn't believe the difference. Still love the echos though
A stock 372 will quite easily out cut any of the 60cc Echo's.
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My brother had a ported and muff modded 600P and my stock 371 would easily out cut it.
In The Hills
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I'd much rather run my 600p than my 372 which might cut a little faster in ideal conditions but the 372 weighs 2# more on a good scale ready to cut plus I hate the narrow power band. Steve
372's heavier, yes, but would certainly never call their power band narrow. At least none that I have experience with......
The only Husky I've run with a nice power band is my 385xp, the rest you better keep the RPM's up high and if you push them they fall flat fast. Steve
I doubt it. Did you make timed cuts on video so you could time them?
Gentlemen with experience you will learn how fast a saw feels means very little, when you start really properly making timed cuts with the same setup on each saw. Saying this or that is easily stronger, just because you feel one saws stronger, is almost always complete nonsense. The smoothness, power curve, sound, brand, all plays into the subconscious prescription of how fast something feels.
