Project Stumpbroke MS361

[Stumpys Customs]

Well, I have a very happy report to make!

Yesterday was the first day that I have been able to get the weather and our firewood delivery schedule to cooperate and let me run saws since this one came home. I've had a few minutes here and there to play and get it tuned in, but I hadn't put much gas through it. Maybe a couple tanks off and on in the week it's been back.

Yesterday we cut about 15 cords, and execpt for about 20 cuts, this saw made them all. I tried everything I could to make my M-Tronic come out on top, including running the 361 with a 7 pin and 441 with an 8 pin. I went from 16 to 18 to 20 to 25 inch bars, all running RMC chain, and every single cut the 361 was at least 2 seconds ahead. I thought the throttle response on my M-Tronic saw was incredible, and it's now a slouch compared to this saw. The weight savings dropping to this saw allows you to cut more wood in the same amount of time, and it burns less fuel doing it. I've estimated the increased production has already paid for the cost of porting for this saw, and if it didn't pay for it's self yesterday it will for sure pay for it's self the next day of cutting.

Thanks Stumpy, you do great work...there will be more saws coming from me headed to the coop! Stumpy already knows this, but if anyone else knows of a 361 that needs work of some type, give me a shout. I'd like another one to have built so as to keep hours off the M-Tronic saw until it gets ported...

SOunds like your getting along with it.

I'll let you know if I win the bid on that 361 on ebay.:msp_thumbup:

 

[John_DeereGreen]

Got another 6 tanks through it today and leaned it out just a tad. She's running very well now. Apparently well enough for one of my employee's to deem it too fast, and unsafe to cut with, haha.

It will happily reside in my hands from now on when cutting is going on.

 

[Stumpys Customs]

Got another 6 tanks through it today and leaned it out just a tad. She's running very well now. Apparently well enough for one of my employee's to deem it too fast, and unsafe to cut with, haha.

It will happily reside in my hands from now on when cutting is going on.

LOL, he's scared of it??

 

[Hedgerow]

Got another 6 tanks through it today and leaned it out just a tad. She's running very well now. Apparently well enough for one of my employee's to deem it too fast, and unsafe to cut with, haha.

It will happily reside in my hands from now on when cutting is going on.

If you think that 361 is nasty, kick that m-tronic to the curb, and send Strumpet a 372 to work over... Now THOSE are nasty!!! Vicious.... Oh, and wear ear plugs...
Just sayin...

 

[Stumpys Customs]

If you think that 361 is nasty, kick that m-tronic to the curb, and send Strumpet a 372 to work over... Now THOSE are nasty!!! Vicious.... Oh, and wear ear plugs...
Just sayin...

The 372's I do now aren't as loud, but way nastier.

 

[John_DeereGreen]

LOL, he's scared of it??

Yep, he said it's too light to be cutting that fast...haha.

If you think that 361 is nasty, kick that m-tronic to the curb, and send Strumpet a 372 to work over... Now THOSE are nasty!!! Vicious.... Oh, and wear ear plugs...
Just sayin...

If they weren't 850 plus the ride there and home and the port work I'd do it. I've had my M-Tronic up against stock 372's and it outcut them, barely, but it did, in a production felling environment. The Husky's were running 24's and my M-Tronic was running a 28 inch light bar. From what I've seen of both ported it would be a pretty close contest.

On the earplug part...if there's a saw to be had that's louder than this one, I don't think I want it...this one will already wake the dead from 50 miles away!