Need Unbiased Opinion on Buying A Top Handled Saw

[TreeClimber57]

echo are very relible i have a CS 346 love it great small saw

Reliable yes. But not terribly powerful for the cc's they have. But realistically for what they are, and their price, they are not bad saws.

 

[pgg]

The word 'great' and the word 'echo' never has belonged and never will belong in the same sentence

 

[GASoline71]

Biased? LMAO...

Is there any other top handle made other than the MS200T?

Gary

 

[miking]

Echo saws can be well tuned by anyone that can pull limiter caps and operate a screwdriver. To guys that know chainsaws inside and out, this should not be an issue, and the idea that they are underpowered and weak is either rumor or a lack of knowledge.

 

[GASoline71]

Guess I don't know very much then...

Gary

 

[pgg]

Guess I'm pretty clueless then too....

 

[TreeClimber57]

Echo saws can be well tuned by anyone that can pull limiter caps and operate a screwdriver. To guys that know chainsaws inside and out, this should not be an issue, and the idea that they are underpowered and weak is either rumor or a lack of knowledge.

I had two of them still have one. Not necessarly weak, it is how you compare them. Not necessary underpowered either, they do the job at hand and do it quite well.

But they are not nearly as powerful, and have yet to see anybody who can make one, equal a 200T that is running well.

 

[TreeClimber57]

Biased? LMAO...

Is there any other top handle made other than the MS200T?

Gary

Oh yeah!! Lots of em..

But none equal ....

 

[pgg]

When you're up a tree dealing with large diameter branches, the typical echo TH saws are just downright bloody dangerous. Their pitiful 0.9 - 1.2KW power outputs combined with their soggy un-responsiveness to the trigger is an ****** joke. They're a junk saw when you need serious power and cutting speed and they're absolutely useless on anything over 2" - 3" in diameter. How anyone can describe them as anything other than crap saws is beyond me

 

[fishercat]

also.................

Echo saws can be well tuned by anyone that can pull limiter caps and operate a screwdriver. To guys that know chainsaws inside and out, this should not be an issue, and the idea that they are underpowered and weak is either rumor or a lack of knowledge.

anyone who can lift a small rock can place an Echo behind the wheel of a chipper or dump truck where it belongs.

 

[spacemule]

Unbiased opinions? Here? :crazy1::food: