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Then he’ll be accused of necro-posting:dumb:
@Huskybill is the guy with all the answers on this topic.
He seems to have all the answers on every topic. He’s done it all.
 
I have only owned 4 different chainsaws the Husqvarna 562 XP has become my favorite, love the auto tune it always runs perfect . I have considered buying a 372 XP but whenever I pick one up it just seems like it might be to heavy for me to carry around in the woods all day.
 
I never ran much between a top handle and a 70, but I’ll put up my favorites there...

MS200T
MS201T
...is there another climbing saw people prefer for topping & removals?

044/MS 440
372XP (all of them)
MS 441
MS 461
They all have their good and bad points. I like the angled Husqvarna front handle, the length vs width of the saw, air filter and the wrap style better than Stihl. I like the 461’s dawgs, power, and clutch & air filter covers over the Husqvarna. The 044 is an awesome, durable saw with great power for its weight. The 441 has proven to be very smooth and incredibly durable over its run. Stihl’s rear handles are much nicer to use than Husqvarna’s.

Between the four the 44 is the first to go, and I’d pick between the other three depending on what job I had to do, if I had all three.

395XP takes the cake for “big” saws over the 385, 390, 288, 064, 066, MS 661, yada. The front tensioner is, well, durable though not always the easiest to use. But the balance being very long for its width, the handles up front, again, take the cake for me. And the power of a 395, especially when you’re running longer than a 3 footer, it just keeps on keeping on when a 66 can’t keep up.
 
I really like husky 346s. @SuperDuty04, if you didn't know this, you can put a 346xp piston and cylinder in a lot of different saws, 340, 345, 350, 353 and their Jonsered equivalents. The top ends are very cheap and you can make a very nice running 50cc saw without spending a lot of money.

Favorite big saw so far is my 395xp. 661s are fun also, but I like how easy the 395 is to work on and how reasonable husky parts are.

The Stihl 440 is also a great all around saw.
 
I love my used 372xp because I got a biggish, fairly lightweight, powerful, very highly thought of saw for not a lot of money.

I love my 2511T (that cost more) because it is just so so handy. And surprisingly capable. Possibly the best top handle saw ever for a non-pro who has a bigger saw for heavier ground work.

If I was buying a new saw, and had to do everything with only that one saw, and I'm no pro logger, I would most likely choose a saw I've never used before. A Stihl MS241C. A little too big for the smaller stuff. And a little too small for the bigger stuff. But I think I could make it work for almost everything I do, save for feeling comfortable in high hard to reach places. And I just like the look and feel of it.
But I'll likely never own one because I have bigger and smaller saws.

I really, really love all three of my small home-owner sized saws. The 7.5 pound, 33.4cc, reed valve Echo 346 is just so light, and with it's torquey powerband is a great saw to have if you cut a lot of brush because it never throws a chain. The 8.4 pound, 35.8cc, Echo CS-361P is also plenty light to carry up a tree if you had to, with more speed and power to get the bigger-small work done quickly.
And the 9 pound, 41cc, Stihl 009L with it's reed valve grunt and compact semi-top handle design is the saw that I used for absolutely everything for many many years. It's cut a lot of cords a little at a time, and has been high up in some fairly large trees.
But I doubt many would include them in their top 2 saws ever list....even though they really are sweet sweet little saws.

So...two saw plan? I think the 2511T.
And maybe the slender, lightweight, 60cc, Poulan 3500 Timbermaster, which seems nearly ideal..but probably not. Something newer.

Maybe a 35cc top handle and a 60 or 70cc rear handle would be the best choice for two saws.
 
395xp and 372xp

Never got into the lighter 390xp. Ths lighter and weaker. I have ran over two 395xp and it just bent the handle broke nothing. They are tough as nails.

Other than those two saws I absolutely despise husqvarna and what it has become. I run all husqvarna and will be transitioning back to stihl.

I got muscle. Just give me a saw that can take abuse and cut fast and weight of a few oz dont mean much.
 
I can’t say too much on a favorite saw as I’ve only ever ran an MS250. That’s what I have used for 5 or 6 years. Don’t really have any complaints on it other than I don’t like the air filter design on it. It doesn’t seal well. It’s been a good saw other than that. I also have my granddaddy’s Poulan 3400. It hadnt ran in 15 years until a couple of months. It’s still a work in progress it still has a bow bar so I can’t wait to try it out bucking some wood.

I would like to get a Husqvarna 365 Xtorq but funds are short for that.


Joseph Huckabaa
 
395xp and 372xp

Never got into the lighter 390xp. Ths lighter and weaker. I have ran over two 395xp and it just bent the handle broke nothing. They are tough as nails.

Other than those two saws I absolutely despise husqvarna and what it has become. I run all husqvarna and will be transitioning back to stihl.

I got muscle. Just give me a saw that can take abuse and cut fast and weight of a few oz dont mean much.
Which one of those beasts would you carry way up in a tree and reach out to make a cut with your muscles? :D
 
I really like husky 346s. @SuperDuty04, if you didn't know this, you can put a 346xp piston and cylinder in a lot of different saws, 340, 345, 350, 353 and their Jonsered equivalents. The top ends are very cheap and you can make a very nice running 50cc saw without spending a lot of money.

Favorite big saw so far is my 395xp. 661s are fun also, but I like how easy the 395 is to work on and how reasonable husky parts are.

The Stihl 440 is also a great all around saw.

Why go smaller in cc’s to a 346 when we have a 350/353 saw already?
 
I have two 346’s I haven’t run yet and a 353 I ran. Is it the 14,500 rpm of the 346?
 
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