$20 yard sale find. Cleaned the carbon from the exhaust port mod the muffler and tuned it just a bit. It had an 18in bar that I think was over kill so I put this 14in on it much better now. I was some what impressed with it.
Echo cs400
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o8f150
Tree Freak
man you pegged the you suck meter,,,,, you want to make your money back and them some,,, i really like those saws
KenJax Tree
Terraphobic
Lol that snow....you can still see the house back there
I think I'll hang on to it. After I changed the bar to the 14in I really liked it.
handsplit!
Handsplit!
Its a great saw! I run a 16" and 18" bars on it depending on what i cut. And it has no issue cutting. Idles so nice. Always go through it and run sharp chains. Cant beat em!!!!
If you can find a 63ps chain for it, you should try it out.
Full Chisel
Slingin' Stihls and runnin' Huskies
That looks like it's hardly been used...you suck!
Make sure to take the limiters off the carb screws and richen it up a bit...and if you are feeling up to it a muffler mod will really wake these saws up.
Make sure to take the limiters off the carb screws and richen it up a bit...and if you are feeling up to it a muffler mod will really wake these saws up.
o8f150
Tree Freak
that was a small snow,,, we had 2 snows that was 18" each
KenJax Tree
Terraphobic
So it was over your head?[emoji23] just messin with ya Scott[emoji4]
o8f150
Tree Freak
Oh but I think offense was intended.
Otherwise, why bother dogging his $20 yard sale find?
Where are you getting those specs?
Everything I've seen has the Echo within 2-3 oz and they're about the same price...
o8f150
Tree Freak
if he bought a 435 or 440 huskies he would be getting a poulan,,, yep,, they are poulans in drag,,,, not a thing wrong with the 400 especially for 20 bucks,,, hell,, i would give him 200 for it right now,, i have cut many many cords with a 370 and 400,, there is nothing wrong with them at all,, they are good saws,, check out my 400
I don't know what you consider a real saw but I'd say I have the Real saw thing covered! With that said I have ran this saw several afternoons after work and I'd still have to say not for sale!
I'd be willing to bet your one of those that run your saw at 12000 RPM in the cut rather than where it should around 9000 RPM, Echo will never win a race running at 12000 rpm but no offence but a husky 435 is not in the same league as a Echo CS400 when RUN right in cutting speed, yes it has more RPM but not much torque. Steve
And if you know what your doing a Echo CS 400 new for around $200 + is one of the best buys out there along with a Echo CS590 for $350 + but you do have to know how to muff modd and tune a saw, plus how to run one. No love here for the Echo CS500p, gutless compared to the CS510, 520 or 530 saws. Steve
You can bet that CS500 is highly ported as that guy can make any saw run, I own a CS500p muff modded broke in and it's still a turd. I'd rather run a CS400 any day in real life. Steve
Don't think Cliff R has a CS400 just a CS370 or 2 which don't run near as good as A CS400, there is NOTHING lacking about a well tuned CS400 , I've sold a lot of them to my sawmill customers who were really impressed by how they run and not one of them owned a Echo before, just Husky or Stihl. Tuned at 12500 you still might be bumping the rev limiter and actually could be real lean, with the CS400 you have to start way rich and gradually lean it out until it cuts the fastest in bigger wood at the proper RPM around 8500 to 9000 RPM not 12000 as it does nothing at high RPM. Steve
