I have an E Light bar on mine so i shaved a few more oz. off
Was it really worth it?I have an E Light bar on mine so i shaved a few more oz. off
Was it really worth it?
Not according to the serial no. I did weigh it yesterday, full of fluids & with 16in. bar & PS chain. It was 13lbs., exactly. My 201 rear handle with 14in bar & PS chain with full fluids on board weighed in at 11.5lbs. My early model 261 (regular carb) full of fluids with 18in. bar & .325 chain was 16lbs on the button.You must have one of the heavy ones.
What chain is on the 201?Not according to the serial no. I did weigh it yesterday, full of fluids & with 16in. bar & PS chain. It was 13lbs., exactly. My 201 rear handle with 14in bar & PS chain with full fluids on board weighed in at 11.5lbs. My early model 261 (regular carb) full of fluids with 18in. bar & .325 chain was 16lbs on the button.
Your lower back is the best judge of it. Use one for a day and you will know.Now I feel like I need a scale to weigh all my saws.
241? no decomp?Mine doesn't have a decomp?!
it does look like the old style dogs on yours. maybe they had some old stock laying around.So I'm drinking the Kool-Aid this thread's selling, and started getting all concerned that the MS241C on my dealers shelf was going to get snapped up if I didn't act pretty soon. So I go in for a parley with said dealer, and he seemed fairly uninterested in doing any dealing - he has a price on it of $529.99.
I decided I'd head home a mull it over a bit. (Translated, I'd go get in my truck and pout all the way home )
So today I decided to call around to 7 Stihl dealers in about a 50 mile radius to see if any of them had one.
One had never heard of a 241, one hasn't been a Stihl dealer since '08 (says he can't get them to remove him from the locator), two didn't stock pro saws, one wanted $539, and two wanted $549.
Turns out my local guy was lowest around anyway, so I told him I'd take it for the $529.99 and had him put a yellow chain on it.
I bought a 6-pack of Ultra to extend the warranty and altogether the bill came to a whopping $580.73 with tax. (It does seem like a lotta dough for a 42.6cc saw when you look at the bottom line but...)
I would have liked to have gotten it for 5 bills or less plus tax like some on here have, but as I began talking myself into it I just kept coming back to the idea that I didn't want $30 to keep me from buying a saw and then regretting it down the line. (you know how the self-talk goes "...what'll $30 get ya these days anyway... a pizza and a pitcher of Coke Zero... I mean really")
The build date on mine is 7/18 and yet I have what I thought were the old style dogs? IDK maybe they changed to the pressed ones after then? Also, I hadn't given it much thought - but I assumed at the price point these things go for that it'd have a rim sprocket but of course it has a spur. The manual pictures both styles. Were some offered with rim, or do all have spur?
Anyway, I ran it for about 15 min and it seems very responsive for brand new. Really light feeling. I think I'll like it a lot (if I can overcome the look of the single stud... which is no doubt just fine)
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All this talk about rim vs spur. It's real simple. The desired gearing for this saw is a 6-pin. There's no such thing as a 6-pin rim, so it has to be a spur.
What chain is on the 201?
Ever use 1/4 on any stuff?PS. I think it is listed in the post. The PS stands for Picco Super, not Post Script.
I'm not being sarcastic, only trying to be clear.
Now I feel like I need a scale to weigh all my saws.
Yes, on an 015 & on a top handle Dolmar (I don't remember the model) I had many years ago.Ever use 1/4 on any stuff?
241? no decomp?
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