No info for Echo?

[Gatsby174]

Well I went to my local saw shop to find that they no longer carry Huskey's. The owner told me that they wanted them to sell their entire line of equipment, not just the saws, so he dropped huskey altogether. He currently only sells echo saws. Now I feel that stihl/husky/echo are just like chevy/ford/dodge. I also have had great luck with all three brands of saws. But I don't understand why echo doesn't publish any hp ratings for any of their saws? My uncle (who is a logger) gave me an echo cs-6700 timberwolf which my echo dealer tells me was the "pro" edition of the saw and that they had sold them when they were current. but I can't find any mention of it anywhere? It has always been a good-running saw and it has been part of a two saw combo that cuts more than 20 chord/year for many years. Anyone have any sites for info on the echo saws? Also, my dealer had a brand new (old stock) echo that has never had any fuel or oil even put in it. It is the two cylinder model that echo produced for one year. The echo reps offered him $4000 for the saw, but he wouldn't sell it! Anyone had their hands on this saw at any time?

 

[Just Mow]

Well I went to my local saw shop to find that they no longer carry Huskey's. The owner told me that they wanted them to sell their entire line of equipment, not just the saws, so he dropped huskey altogether. He currently only sells echo saws. Now I feel that stihl/husky/echo are just like chevy/ford/dodge. I also have had great luck with all three brands of saws. But I don't understand why echo doesn't publish any hp ratings for any of their saws? My uncle (who is a logger) gave me an echo cs-6700 timberwolf which my echo dealer tells me was the "pro" edition of the saw and that they had sold them when they were current. but I can't find any mention of it anywhere? It has always been a good-running saw and it has been part of a two saw combo that cuts more than 20 chord/year for many years. Anyone have any sites for info on the echo saws? Also, my dealer had a brand new (old stock) echo that has never had any fuel or oil even put in it. It is the two cylinder model that echo produced for one year. The echo reps offered him $4000 for the saw, but he wouldn't sell it! Anyone had their hands on this saw at any time?

They don't publish hp because they do not generate the hp that the other two brands produce.

 

[Bob Wright]

http://www.echo-usa.com/ but i never heard of the Timberwolf. Just because Echo dosen't publish HP ratings never kept me from buying their products, i don't really care if brand x runs at 97 million rpm or has 52 hp i just got what was dependable for what i needed...Bob

 

[Gatsby174]

Anyone ever had their hands on that double cylinder saw? any pro's out there with cs-670 experience?
JC

 

[StihlaMan]

I ll go with Bob here as far as reliable and gettn the job done. Dont have any experience behind a 670 but for the money i dont belive you can beat a cs520
with a little muffler work. 20+ cords of word and that(cs520) keeps pullin stronger every cut. my local Jred/Echo dealer will not even carry a cs670 said he had to many returned but would not comment why.

 

[mountainlake]

I wonder if some people that bash Echo for being under powered have ever run a newer one. I have echo 6700 and a cs510. The 6700 is 1 second slower than my o44 stihl in 14" and handles a lot!!! nicer. I'd put the 510 up against any 50cc except the Dolmar 5100, it revs good with incredable torque. Steve

 

[Gatsby174]

Thanks for the info guys. I personally like the manual override oiler when going through really big wood on my cs-6700 timberwolf. I don't know why stihl/husky don't add that option?
JC

 

[rahtreelimbs]

I go by word of mouth more so than what the specs say.

Echo builds a solid product for the money..........'nuff said!!!

They also have a decent dealer network............something that Dolmar doesn't!!!

 

[eyolf]

Years ago I had an echo 702...70cc, laydown style. Good saw, lots of torque, but a little heavy. Only one problem...occasionally the throttle linkage wire would spring loose, but they did come up with a fix...
That saw was stolen, and I've always missed it.

later, I won a JD version of the twin in a radio call-in contest. In some ways they were a neat saw, sounded different, but they were pretty heavy for their power. 20" bar buried in oak was slow and taxing. I traded that saw on a Jonsered.

My opinion? Echo saws are well-made and not very problem-prone. They are a little heavy for their size class, but not real bad. I think they got ugly when they went away from all orange, and nobody near me that handles them really works hard at selling them. There are some of these saws sold in the big-box stores, which tends to tweak dealers off, so what you see in the dealers are the more unique products like the high-end trimmers, blowers and that yard vac thing.

One guy near me had a big blowout on echo two-stroke mix this fall, so I got some!

 

[Urbicide]

Some info on the CS- 6700.

http://www.acresinternet.com/cscc.n...337b4ff7f57740b788256d0d001fc1dd?OpenDocument