I won't beat a dead horse. The 441 is a much more efficient saw for cutting wood. The 460 has that .5hp to its advantage and thats about it, which is great if all you do is cut cookies in your backyard. If you cut wood with production in mind, the 441 will cut more wood, more efficiently. There isn't any getting around that fact. I have tried and its not possible, certainly not if they are both modded to their potential, at that point the 441 will certainly spank the 460. The 441 is one serious choked up saw in stock form.
The guy that modds my saws has modded many 460's he was even quite proud of what he could do with one. He griped and complained when I told him I wanted to try the 441. He did his work and compared it to his modded 460's (he has 8 at his disposal) and even this first, for him, 441 was easily as good if not better than his tried and true 460's, and the 441 gets much better fuel mileage, and I mean rather noticeable increases in wood cut between fillups. This is quite an advantage in production.
I personally have never had to put down my 441 because I was too tired of carrying around the "1 pound of extra" weight. But when all saws run out of gas, you have to stop, period. The 441 makes less of those stops in a days time, in a weeks time and in a years time. Add all that time up and the 441 will make money and save money over the 460 in cut wood and saved fuel/mix.
Conversely we can add up all of the cookie cutting seconds and possibly at the end of the year you will have a massed a good solid hour (3600 seconds) at the end of the year with that legendary 460. Man Oh Man, that is life changing stuff there, and it still ate more gas doing it.
If you can't come to grips with these simple facts, then there are other problems below the surface that can't likely be changed over the course of typed dialogue in a chainsaw forum.
My opinion,
Sam
