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Properly upgraded Echo CS590 or Husqvarna 50 - 55 series a close second. They are just as dependable as a steel handled 5# shop hammer.
Is this the skill you speak of? Like one of these I seen for sale?Overall one saw plan 036 or 034S.
They can go climbing and run short bars well especially modded or ported. Light weight but capable of oiling and pulling a two foot bar.
No one disputes this to my knowledge.
Personally a ported 46 or 48mm matters little on the 20" bar. Not an all day bucking saw for me but the AV isn't the best. I have a beautiful 036 tucked away all stock. The rest of the 1125s all get altered substantially for climbing or felling. New batch this winter.
Edit: my go to ground saws are 361 and 362. Climbing will always be the 200T.
First impressions early on
Skill 16xx or xx16. Yellow, black and it screamed. Mid 1980s. Before that was the electric Craftsmen 2.0 black and red chrome handlebar 120V. Got one tucked away.
Slightly newerIs this the skill you speak of? Like one of these I seen for sale?
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Properly upgraded Echo CS590 or Husqvarna 50 - 55 series a close second. They are just as dependable as a steel handled 5# shop hammer.
Price and not a substantial increase in performance.I have only had one Echo, a very very old one, and it was robust. It is still running after about 40 years.
I know the 590 is popular and has a great reputation, but why would the 620 not be more so? Isn't it a lot more saw? Doesn't it have metal handle instead of plastic, and the option of full wrap? Mag clutch cover and rim sprocket, not spur?
I don't get it.
Weight?
Why a 590 over the 620?
Price?
I like saws, but please, there is more to life than saws. Life has value outside of them. No need to despair if the saw does not start. Put a kick start on it or get a friend or neighbor to start it.My SP125 because it's the beast among beasts!
And the day I can't start her is the day I'm buried with her!
Jonsereds 49SP for me if only one saw for the rest of my life. And not just any old 49SP but my personal 49SP which is the only saw I ever bought brand new.....the year? 1977. I was twenty three and low on funds but heated with wood as an only heat sourse. I burnt 6 cord and the MIL who lived on top of the hill pushed 12 cord through a large cookstove. Young carpenters always got layed off durning the winter so for the first four years of ownership this saw fell and bucked to stove lengh 18 cord of hardwood and and average of 6-8 cord of 4 foot pulpwood per week for three months every winter to put food on the table and gas in the tractor. Also put up around 10,000 BFT of softwood saw logs per season.What brand/model is your #1 favorite if you could only have a single chainsaw for the rest of your life.
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