If you want a saw that cuts good and is substantially easiar to keep working with while your resting from using your bigger saws I would go with a muffler modded ms250. They are far from a dog when they are tuned properly and get a lot of work done easily. Also inexpensive and fairly easy to work on and excellent parts availability.It's been awhile, guys...probably a decade or more since my last post. I'm looking for a 50cc saw for jobs that don't require the grunt of my 044 or Husky 262xp. Back before I dropped out of sight, the 346xp or Dolmar's 50cc saw - can't remember the model were the go-to saws in this size. I'm sure things have changed a bit since then, please bring me up to date.
I use the older 025 and wouldn't want to be without 1 or the other .
Just lighter and easier to handle, snappier, and feel almost as powerful as an 026. I have an ported 026, Echo cs400, Echo cs490, run an 346xp fairly freqently,but the 025-ms250 is the only ones that feel to me truly lightweight and have mid range power in the same package.