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Stihl love it! (sorry, I had to....)
As I have said, I do not use it every day. Even less now as I am doing less grinding.
In September my parents house was hit with a tornado. I drove up to help with clean up. The 562 had been sitting unused for several months. Long enough I automatically dumped the gas and poured fresh mix in. It started right up! I used it every day for 2 about weeks straight. I used a 20" bar the whole time. I brought a 24 with a skip chain but never used it. We hired a pro crew for the majority of the work. They had a crane and other heavy equipment. All the trees on the water, fell in the water. Everything I did not want to save for firewood had to be hauled out. Pretty big job. They had 30 something mature trees to start, 3 or 4 left after the storm. Many of them were blow-overs with 8' high root balls. Nasty.
Anyway, I was in Stihl country. Typical behavior from life long Stihl users usually starts with disinterest at the sight of the wrong color orange and after listening/watching it work, morphs to " what is that?" My BIL included...
One of the head guys had never used one, but had a competitor who claimed the 562 had the best power/weight ratio of any saw on the planet and used them exclusively. I must have pushed him over the edge. He bought one before he finished the job. He told me it surprised him (35 years in the tree business) how aggressively it reaches for more wood in the cut.
So, to answer your question, I have been very happy with the saw. I wish I would have bought a pro saw many years earlier. I don't know how your equipment is priced down under, but if the 562 is competitively priced, I highly recommend it.
As I have said, I do not use it every day. Even less now as I am doing less grinding.
In September my parents house was hit with a tornado. I drove up to help with clean up. The 562 had been sitting unused for several months. Long enough I automatically dumped the gas and poured fresh mix in. It started right up! I used it every day for 2 about weeks straight. I used a 20" bar the whole time. I brought a 24 with a skip chain but never used it. We hired a pro crew for the majority of the work. They had a crane and other heavy equipment. All the trees on the water, fell in the water. Everything I did not want to save for firewood had to be hauled out. Pretty big job. They had 30 something mature trees to start, 3 or 4 left after the storm. Many of them were blow-overs with 8' high root balls. Nasty.
Anyway, I was in Stihl country. Typical behavior from life long Stihl users usually starts with disinterest at the sight of the wrong color orange and after listening/watching it work, morphs to " what is that?" My BIL included...
One of the head guys had never used one, but had a competitor who claimed the 562 had the best power/weight ratio of any saw on the planet and used them exclusively. I must have pushed him over the edge. He bought one before he finished the job. He told me it surprised him (35 years in the tree business) how aggressively it reaches for more wood in the cut.
So, to answer your question, I have been very happy with the saw. I wish I would have bought a pro saw many years earlier. I don't know how your equipment is priced down under, but if the 562 is competitively priced, I highly recommend it.