indiansprings
Firewood Purveyor
Being in the business of cutting and selling firewood for years I think have a pretty good idea what Stihl needs to do to come up with the perfect firewood saw.
First of all they need to design it around the original 361 chassis. The weight of this saw/width of chassis/balance is about ideal, even for reaching and overhead sawing.
It needs to weigh in no more than 12lbs give a couple ounces either way. Come set up with a 3/8 18" set up with a 8 pin rim sprocket.
It needs to have the air filteration of the 261. The pleated automotive filter gives much more surface area, twist on/twist off is very easy to service.
Captive bar nuts are a nice feature, can't lose them in the woods.
Stainless muffler, adjustable h/o oiler, spring suspension, some type of replaceable gel grip on the handle, like the material sims uses on rifle butt pads, bow vibration dampeners.
Needs to be M-tronic or even better their intro into true fuel injection on a chainsaw.
The saw in stock form needs to produce 5hp as minimum, 5.25 would be even better.
Use a Mahle cylinder, be mfg in Virginia Beach, a USA made product.
This isn't the perfect felling saw, but a firewooder, that would be as good as fit in a do-it your self kind or guy to the professional firewood cutter,
The 562 looks like it is closer to this than the 362, but the 362 was on the market in fall of 09, initial design was prolly in 06/07. Stihl needs to update the 362, it can't be close to the seller the 361 was, there have to be many more like me that just can't feel the love for the 362, but would jump all over a slimmer,sleeker version with more power. All they really need to do is a heart transplant on the 361, give it at least a half a horsepower more, a stainless muffler and improved filteration.
Ole Tommy , STD, you reading this, those Stihl boys need to be listening, no big leap in technology is needed, Husky is doing something right, raising the hp to weight ratio. Stihl needs to do the same.
We all know it is well within those German engineers capabilities.
Post what your ideal firewood saw would be.
First of all they need to design it around the original 361 chassis. The weight of this saw/width of chassis/balance is about ideal, even for reaching and overhead sawing.
It needs to weigh in no more than 12lbs give a couple ounces either way. Come set up with a 3/8 18" set up with a 8 pin rim sprocket.
It needs to have the air filteration of the 261. The pleated automotive filter gives much more surface area, twist on/twist off is very easy to service.
Captive bar nuts are a nice feature, can't lose them in the woods.
Stainless muffler, adjustable h/o oiler, spring suspension, some type of replaceable gel grip on the handle, like the material sims uses on rifle butt pads, bow vibration dampeners.
Needs to be M-tronic or even better their intro into true fuel injection on a chainsaw.
The saw in stock form needs to produce 5hp as minimum, 5.25 would be even better.
Use a Mahle cylinder, be mfg in Virginia Beach, a USA made product.
This isn't the perfect felling saw, but a firewooder, that would be as good as fit in a do-it your self kind or guy to the professional firewood cutter,
The 562 looks like it is closer to this than the 362, but the 362 was on the market in fall of 09, initial design was prolly in 06/07. Stihl needs to update the 362, it can't be close to the seller the 361 was, there have to be many more like me that just can't feel the love for the 362, but would jump all over a slimmer,sleeker version with more power. All they really need to do is a heart transplant on the 361, give it at least a half a horsepower more, a stainless muffler and improved filteration.
Ole Tommy , STD, you reading this, those Stihl boys need to be listening, no big leap in technology is needed, Husky is doing something right, raising the hp to weight ratio. Stihl needs to do the same.
We all know it is well within those German engineers capabilities.
Post what your ideal firewood saw would be.
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