Buy Stihl 400 or wait for 400.1?

[JD Guy]

Great!!. A little pricey and so are the files. Holds an edge well. Takes a bit to get the hang of the file. Stihl sells a hexa wheel if you use a grinder.

Following.,,Thank you for your Hexa experience. How does the wheel work for you? Interested to try this chain. Thanks!
Sorry for the thread hijack, admin feel free to move if needed!

 

[farmer steve]

Following.,,Thank you for your Hexa experience. How does the wheel work for you? Interested to try this chain. Thanks!
Sorry for the thread hijack, admin feel free to move if needed!

Sorry, I don't have the wheel. That was just a FYI for Hendog.

 

[JD Guy]

OK, thanks!

 

[SAWMIKAZE]

The 441 was also a better saw all things considered.

I agree for the most part, the 441s definitely had more power.

 

[SAWMIKAZE]

Get a 462, the 400 had a really short run, parts will be more difficult over time, and 400.1 hasn’t been tested yet.

The 400 shares about 90% of it's parts with a 362.

 

[SAWMIKAZE]

True- but you can counter that with the fact 441's were dropped like a hot brick and did not enjoy that long production run time.
Im not saying the 400-1 will be a lemon- but it pays to wait till the bugs are ironed out before jumping on the latest new model bandwagon- look back to the release of the first 661's.

Outside of it's complexity from being stihls first crack at a strato saw a 441 will out run a 440 and obviously filters air better and it's way smoother, better on fuel too. A 441 had about a 10 year run, not bad all things considered.

I'd take an mtronic 441 over a 440 anyday from a user standpoint, if I just played chainsaws or collected them I'd probably feel different...maybe.

Ya..the intro of the 661 wasn't great, but there's also a ton of 661s from their inception still running. Like anything else, the internet chainsawers blow things out of proportion. I had a first release 661 that had a bad solenoid, after that it was fine and I lost track of how many stumps that saw cut, it got worked HARD.

 

[Bob Hedgecutter]

Outside of it's complexity from being stihls first crack at a strato saw a 441 will out run a 440 and obviously filters air better and it's way smoother, better on fuel too.

I'd take an mtronic 441 over a 440 anyday from a user standpoint, if I just played chainsaws or collected them I'd probably feel different...maybe.

Ya..the intro of the 661 wasn't great, but there's also a ton of 661s from their inception still running. Like anything else, the internet chainsawers blow things out of proportion. I had a first release 661 that had a bad solenoid, after that it was fine and I lost track of how many stumps that saw cut, it got worked HARD.

Good for you- lots of first gen 661's got run over by excavators here, or fell off trucks into rivers.
Guys got sick of paying top dollar for something that gave issues from low hour use and went back to known 660's and 395XP's.
That's from real life experiences- not internet trolling.
And Ive never met a 441 I (or most anyone else here) liked.

But, everyone is entitled to their own experiences and opinions- my point is/was- dont jump on the early first release of a model before it is proven in the field.

 

[Vintage Engine Repairs]

The 400 shares about 90% of it's parts with a 362.

A number of parts are - plastics, air filter, covers, clutch, muffler, etc but some of the core components aren’t - Piston, cylinder, crank case, carburetor, etc.