Wait, you dont have a 70 right now
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Best saw to buy for firewood?
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short10320
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short10320
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Finally Purchased my 1st Saw I have ever owned. 1st addition to start my collection. Brand New out of the box MS 261 C-M 20". Headed home from work to Fire er up for the first time. So Excited.
nettle
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You will like the saw. When you start it and listen to it run you will like it more. And when you remove the covers and see how well it is made underneath you will like it even more.
short10320
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I'm hoping so it cost me a whole weeks paycheck.
nettle
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For their size they ain't cheap. After having mine a couple of months I got what I paid for. Worth every penny.
short10320
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Ya she'll pay herself off in no time. Able to cut my own firewood now so can finally use the fireplace to heat every room but the bedrooms. Cut down on using so much propane to run the heater all day every day. That s*** gets expensive to keep filling.
short10320
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Free heat. Only cost a few hours of work.
...and a $600 chainsaw...lol
short10320
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Lol ya true that. $670 in the end after all the essentials it has to have to run. Did get 6 pack of Stohl Ultra Synthetic oil and the extra additional year warranty with it for free.
short10320
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Bought the saw with the 20" bar she charged me for the 18". So the oil I bought for the extra year warranty was free.
nettle
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Find some ethanol free gas and don't use any gas more than thirty days old.
buttercup
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That's a pretty good deal, I would settle for the 18" and a 6 pack of beer to go with that
Congrats!
short10320
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I was told that you can run the Supreme (super) unleaded 91 octane with the stihl ultra oil and itll perfect for it as long as you don't use anything under 89 octane. Especially not the cheap 87 octane that most use in their vehicles. I run the 91 octane in my car as well because it's better on my super charger and gives it the power it needs.
short10320
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They told me you didnt have to use the ethanol free. That just no higher than the 10% ethanol you get from the gas pump at the station. So I was gonna use the 91 octane
I ran the 89 w/ethanol for years due to the fact that non E wasn't readily available close to me. NO issues what so ever. I'm stihl breaking in my 261 but it gets better with every tank. Congrats on the new saw. Have fun and be safe.
That's a pretty good deal, I would settle for the 18" and a 6 pack of beer to go with that
6 packs come in 12oz. and 160z. "tall boys" here in the states. What do you metric system people get?
If you can get rec fuel without going out of your way for it they claim it has a little longer shelf life than unleaded. It's not idiot proof, but it's cheap insurance for equipment that might sit for a couple months with fuel in the tank and carb.
SuperDuty04
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Since I'm not a pro cutting 5 days a week, I run nothing but premix through mine. Peace of mind for me. No ethenol and high octane.
After you have run the big saw doing trimming for couple 3 days you may decide (your body muscles will talk to you usually at night or the next morning) that you need another smaller lighter saw for trimming the smaller limbs from the log.
You need two saws anyway because YOU WILL eventually get one of the saws hung up in a log/limb and need another saw for removing the hung up one.
You need two saws anyway because YOU WILL eventually get one of the saws hung up in a log/limb and need another saw for removing the hung up one.
