A big thanks goes out to atvguns fer donating the wood & camera time to help me out with this. I figured it would be interesting to have a lil follow up on this 290. I asked the owner ( a local customer) if I could take it to the Jasper AR GTG. He has put several hours on it since he picked it up & I was surprized at how the saw felt after bein good & broke in.
So I asked atvguns if he would take some vids of it against a stock 029 & his stock 044. The 029 & 290 are wearin the same chain, 325 full chisel std stihl & a 20" bar. the 044 was wearin a 3/8 full chisel. The first take with the 044 was slower than the MS290 so we tried it agian. It's surprizeing how much this 290 woke up after bein modded.