Stihl MS 261 and 362 get an Update
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windthrown
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Well, that would be really easy to fix or swap out.
7sleeper
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If it was easy, why aren't they delivering the saws and letting the dealers do the swap...
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Michaelmj11
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my guess would be CYA to make sure nothing ELSE is wrong.
Anybody heard from Rock today? How'd you folks up north make out with the storm?
7 you don't count
7sleeper
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Michaelmj11
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that you were not in the path of the snow storm that hit the eastern seaboard of north america today.........
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Hammy
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Atlantic Canada has been kept out of the path so all is good here
. Hope the guys on along the US coast are all safe and sound.
. Hope the guys on along the US coast are all safe and sound.
Rockjock
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No none we had the " old " ones come in checking the stock there is 100+ of the old ones in stock so I suppose once we go through those the "new" ones will arrive. BUT at 599 we are selling quite a few of them. Oddly enough took an order for 5 661's as well today from a new company that is doing ash tree removal. Seems the spring rush is starting already!!
Rockjock
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My peeps in Deutschland commented that they still have stock of the type I so once those are sold then they will have the newish one. We have listings of the newish saws but get a much much better deal on the oldish ones we would be mad to pass that up !
Michaelmj11
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do you know, do the parts lists etc show if parts from the new will fit the old, and visa versa?
Rockjock
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I looked it up today and we have no new IPLs for that saw. Also the newish 362 still have the oldish IPL so I am not sure what the actual differences are yet. Hopefully an older 362 comes in and I can take some time and have a good look.
Michaelmj11
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or more photos of both saws
windthrown
361 Junkie
Maybe, maybe not. Look at Dolmar and the 5100s in the US. Once released, they have less control over them. There may be other QA issues though. Stihl is very tight lipped about any saw releases these days. It also looks like there are still a lot of older 261s in distributor and factory inventory.
Hammy
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The Stihl rep I talked to figured the new models won't be in production until end of winter/early spring. I didn't really know what to think at the time since the new 362 was already in rockjocks shop and nobody else affiliated with Stihl knew anything about them. He also said there could be production delays and that's why nobody really knows much if anything about the new saws. Again seemed strange with the new 362 already in Ontario.
I don't know anything about the saw business but it seems like a very strange way to launch a product. I got a great price on the current/type 1 261cm so I couldn't be happier. Well I would be happier if if had an afternoon to do some cutting but we have way too much going on at the farm for the next couple weeks so it will have to wait.
I don't know anything about the saw business but it seems like a very strange way to launch a product. I got a great price on the current/type 1 261cm so I couldn't be happier. Well I would be happier if if had an afternoon to do some cutting but we have way too much going on at the farm for the next couple weeks so it will have to wait.
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MountainHigh
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Stihl is still calling them 241, 261 and 362 .... now that's just plain goofy . I'm waiting for the 242 cm, 262 cm and 363 cm
. I'm waiting for the 242 cm, 262 cm and 363 cm
Rockjock
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The stihl rep was caught unaware that we had it already.. shifty bastard keeps much to himself instead of telling the guys I work with about new releases and such.
The odd thing is that the newish 362 is from the states so how can there be a production hold up. I am thinking the same thing is happening when got the661 first. Too many 660's in the inventory.
On a funnier note the echo rep has pulled out of our dealer days open house since I arranged to have a log for test cutting the saws. Performance anxiety I am sure.
windthrown
361 Junkie
Stihl reps seem to be the last to know (or admit) anything. We know that the saws are already in production in Virginia and in Germany from saws that some dealers have already gotten (and reported) by SN. They also spilled the goods on these saws on the web site in Germany. What happens is that distributor and factory inventory has to be cleared out before they release or ship the newer models. Previous releases of new saws in the states generally happened by region, and by dealer stock. When inventory runs low, they order more saws, and the distributor/factory ships them. Then when the old model runs out at the distributor warehouses they order and ship newer model saws to dealers. When they are sold out at the dealer, they put the new ones on the shelves for sale. Seemingly they have a lot of older model 261s out there now and that is why the big sale in Canada and Europe. It also seems that they wanted to keep these releases quiet by not increasing the model numbers on them, even though they are obviously significantly new designs. These saws also do not appear on the 'new products' list on the US web sites. Another (and bad) idea that they lifted from Husky. Husky has released two different design 346 model saws, three different design 372 saws, and several different design 365 saws.
