stubnail67
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all good man i like echo alot....they work for me.... would i like that pretty white orange saw yep ... but i cant kill my echos .....
Echo 330/360t improving air intake, time cuts comparison
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all good man i like echo alot....they work for me.... would i like that pretty white orange saw yep ... but i cant kill my echos .....
stubnail67
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oh and i also have alot of poulan top handle saws i only use 3 for back ups and trailer saws..... with 3 echos i get the job done.... i do have the poulans also though....the mint 009 l hardly leaves its case....
stubnail67
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i like using lots of saws.....
KenJax Tree
Terraphobic
I never said Echo was a bad saw. I guess your experience with them was better than mine. I will just never buy another top handle, I'm even considering getting a CS 620pw.
kenjax-
my experience has been that 020/200/201t's last about one year in full time duty as a climbing saw. i think echos are more robust, i'm not into believing anything, just my real world observations.
bikemike
loud pipes save lives
Are your 009 the early non av or the newer 009 av saws. And do you know what the 009 are worth in working condition? Il have a chance to get 2 or 3 of them but not shure that il ever use em. Just fix n sell if they have any value
bikemike
loud pipes save lives
Do you toss ur saws when they wear out or freshen up the guts and keep em going?
bikemike
loud pipes save lives
I almost want mine to blow so my wife will let me buy a short block to drop in. I may have to do some side cash and buy a short block to port out and run the piss out of. But the draw back is the ignition. They do also have a rear handle version of that saw and was wondering if it had a dead set timing unlike the top handle.
bikemike
loud pipes save lives
Talk to yall in the morning time for some lovely wife time. Good night
KenJax Tree
Terraphobic
Yup 6am comes early[emoji42]
bikemike
loud pipes save lives
Yeah thats when my kids are tearing up the house. Turds
stubnail67
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No idea what they are worth ...check the bay for sold listings i would think from 75 to 200 depending on condition and compression.....mine is the non av version... sounds like a lil Harley....good camp or ground saw.....Your hands will hate you if you use it all day......Modern Av has spoiled me.....
drf255
BAD CAD
My Echo 330T has been a durable little sucker. Back when I knew nothing about saws, my buddy who's a landscaper picked me up one brand new. I had moved to a wooded lot and needed a saw.
Mines 10 years old and was my primary saw for 7 of them. With a 14" bar and some time, the darn thing has cut more wood than you can shake a stick at. It's unmodified, I still haven't touched the muffler.
I'd say conservatively mine has cut better than 50 cords of wood. There's still not a damn thing wrong with it. More wood than my 066. More wood than any saw I own.
I plan on the mod shown in this thread. Personally, there's no way in hell I'd pay double the price for the still 200. Then again, I'm not a pro that makes their living off of the saw.
Mines 10 years old and was my primary saw for 7 of them. With a 14" bar and some time, the darn thing has cut more wood than you can shake a stick at. It's unmodified, I still haven't touched the muffler.
I'd say conservatively mine has cut better than 50 cords of wood. There's still not a damn thing wrong with it. More wood than my 066. More wood than any saw I own.
I plan on the mod shown in this thread. Personally, there's no way in hell I'd pay double the price for the still 200. Then again, I'm not a pro that makes their living off of the saw.
bikemike
loud pipes save lives
Wow thats been through some wood. How big of logs were you using it in before you would grab a bigger saw?
bikemike
loud pipes save lives
If you can post a vid of ur ols saw in action plz
With a tree blade, a sawzall is something to reckon with. Best thing since sliced bread when you need to cut a root.
bikemike
loud pipes save lives
Very true. Il even use a demo blade due to dirt and rock on my sawzall till my crank seal went out
drf255
BAD CAD
I guess the biggest was around 24". Last big use was September of '14 for firewood. My 066 OEM brake handle snapped again (on my 3rd one-don't know what I'm doing wrong) and I used the little 330T to finish the job.
It's not a miracle saw and it takes its time, but it's always been the saw I grab first cause it's so compact.
This was all before my CAD set in. I used to have a cheap Poulan Nothern tools cheapo saw and the little echo. Then I picked up an 066 at a garage sale for $15 with bad bearings. The Poulan broke rather quickly, but I cleared 36 cords worth of wood for my pool install with that 20" Poulan and the little Echo.
Now, I grab my 036 first for anything that looks substantial and the 330 for little stuff.
I can post pics, but not video. I just love the 330. Would never part with it.
drf255
BAD CAD
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Chris-PA
Where the Wild Things Are
That's not how a carb works. An accurate carb would hold a constant fuel/air mixture as the air velocity changed - more air would pick up proportionately more fuel.
These are not accurate carbs, as they eliminated the air corrector jet system when making them all-position. So with an uncorrected fixed jet fuel volume approaches the square of air velocity, and even a small increase in air velocity will make it very rich - this is why saws "4-stroke".
The fact that you had to lean the mixture tells me that it wasn't really acting as a choke, but that you successfully increased the air velocity through the carb.
