DaffyDuck77
New Member
Hello, I am brand new here. Just a standard newbie dude looking for a good all around saw to help clean up some newly purchased land that was recently cherry picked over for timber leaving a frightful mess.
I have decided on either the 291 or the 261. I am actually almost certainly swinging towards the smaller pro saw despite whatever the answer is to my question about power.
This is just for my own education and enjoyment....how exactly do the 55.5 cc/3.76 HP of the 291 compare with the 50.2cc/4 HP of the 261 in real life use?
What I know about HP is that it is rpm based meaning that the 261 runs faster than the 291? Higher rpm is the only way that less displacement can create more HP, right?
Can I assume that if you put 16" bars on them and identical out of the box chains on them that the 261 would cut something soft like fresh pine faster?
Could I turn it around and say that if you 100% buried 20" bars on both (identical chains) in seasoned glassy hard hardwood that the higher reving 261 would fall behind and that the larger displacement of the 291 would pull ahead here? Just because the rpms are bogged down here mitigating the HP of the 261 while the 291 still has the torque advantage coming from literally being bigger?
Thanks!
I have decided on either the 291 or the 261. I am actually almost certainly swinging towards the smaller pro saw despite whatever the answer is to my question about power.
This is just for my own education and enjoyment....how exactly do the 55.5 cc/3.76 HP of the 291 compare with the 50.2cc/4 HP of the 261 in real life use?
What I know about HP is that it is rpm based meaning that the 261 runs faster than the 291? Higher rpm is the only way that less displacement can create more HP, right?
Can I assume that if you put 16" bars on them and identical out of the box chains on them that the 261 would cut something soft like fresh pine faster?
Could I turn it around and say that if you 100% buried 20" bars on both (identical chains) in seasoned glassy hard hardwood that the higher reving 261 would fall behind and that the larger displacement of the 291 would pull ahead here? Just because the rpms are bogged down here mitigating the HP of the 261 while the 291 still has the torque advantage coming from literally being bigger?
Thanks!