I have an E Light bar on mine so i shaved a few more oz. off
MS241C Discontinued 2+ years ago?!
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Was it really worth it?
I already had it so i put it on. It made more of a difference on my 201T
Not according to the serial no. I did weigh it yesterday, full of fluids & with 16in. bar & PS chain. It was 13lbs., exactly. My 201 rear handle with 14in bar & PS chain with full fluids on board weighed in at 11.5lbs. My early model 261 (regular carb) full of fluids with 18in. bar & .325 chain was 16lbs on the button.
What chain is on the 201?
Colt Marlington
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Now I feel like I need a scale to weigh all my saws.
Your lower back is the best judge of it. Use one for a day and you will know.
it does look like the old style dogs on yours. maybe they had some old stock laying around.So I'm drinking the Kool-Aid this thread's selling, and started getting all concerned that the MS241C on my dealers shelf was going to get snapped up if I didn't act pretty soon. So I go in for a parley with said dealer, and he seemed fairly uninterested in doing any dealing - he has a price on it of $529.99.
I decided I'd head home a mull it over a bit. (Translated, I'd go get in my truck and pout all the way home)
So today I decided to call around to 7 Stihl dealers in about a 50 mile radius to see if any of them had one.
One had never heard of a 241, one hasn't been a Stihl dealer since '08 (says he can't get them to remove him from the locator), two didn't stock pro saws, one wanted $539, and two wanted $549.
Turns out my local guy was lowest around anyway, so I told him I'd take it for the $529.99 and had him put a yellow chain on it.
I bought a 6-pack of Ultra to extend the warranty and altogether the bill came to a whopping $580.73 with tax. (It does seem like a lotta dough for a 42.6cc saw when you look at the bottom line but...)
I would have liked to have gotten it for 5 bills or less plus tax like some on here have, but as I began talking myself into it I just kept coming back to the idea that I didn't want $30 to keep me from buying a saw and then regretting it down the line. (you know how the self-talk goes "...what'll $30 get ya these days anyway... a pizza and a pitcher of Coke Zero... I mean really")
The build date on mine is 7/18 and yet I have what I thought were the old style dogs? IDK maybe they changed to the pressed ones after then? Also, I hadn't given it much thought - but I assumed at the price point these things go for that it'd have a rim sprocket but of course it has a spur. The manual pictures both styles. Were some offered with rim, or do all have spur?
Anyway, I ran it for about 15 min and it seems very responsive for brand new. Really light feeling. I think I'll like it a lot (if I can overcome the look of the single stud... which is no doubt just fine)
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Yeah, and the internals all look exactly like the "new" style so that's what threw me.
I've been pondering the sprocket thing BTW, and I am going to just do like many advised and just run this set-up until it's time to change the sprocket then decide what to do at that time. Right now I just need to know more about that I guess, because if I'm understanding what I've read (...and I've been trying to pour over old posts on this topic to a point where everything is a blur) it sounds like the spur allows 6-pin but that's unavailable in a rim - and it seems a lot of folks tend to think the 6-pin spur set up hit the sweet-spot, etc. ?
I just don't know, but I'm thinking enough that know a ton more than I do seem very happy with the spur and so I think I should be too
I've been pondering the sprocket thing BTW, and I am going to just do like many advised and just run this set-up until it's time to change the sprocket then decide what to do at that time. Right now I just need to know more about that I guess, because if I'm understanding what I've read (...and I've been trying to pour over old posts on this topic to a point where everything is a blur
) it sounds like the spur allows 6-pin but that's unavailable in a rim - and it seems a lot of folks tend to think the 6-pin spur set up hit the sweet-spot, etc. ? I just don't know, but I'm thinking enough that know a ton more than I do seem very happy with the spur and so I think I should be too
I'm stihl on the original spur sprocket on mine and it looks fine. It's been my go to saw unless i have really big stuff.
The wood doesn’t care if its a spur or a rim
All this talk about rim vs spur. It's real simple. The desired gearing for this saw is a 6-pin. There's no such thing as a 6-pin rim, so it has to be a spur.
Thanks! That seems to be the prevailing opinion in most all the archive stuff I've been able to dig up, so I'm good with it. Just needing the ground to firm up some now so I can get some hours on it
PS. I think it is listed in the post. The PS stands for Picco Super, not Post Script.
I'm not being sarcastic, only trying to be clear.
Ever use 1/4 on any stuff?
Not really. This is the first time I've weighed them fully "loaded" & ready for work. I thought it might be of some interest in this thread. I'm guessing that the newer, lighter 261C would be approximately 1-1.25 lbs. lighter.
Yes, on an 015 & on a top handle Dolmar (I don't remember the model) I had many years ago.
241? no decomp?
You made me go & look. It DOES have a decomp. When I took a quick look at the top cover the last time I handled it, I remembered seeing the round black "plug" rearward of the decomp & thinking that it did not have one. My goof!
shadco
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Ran my extra sausage version a bit today. Don’t know what that second log was but it was hard.
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