arborealbuffoon
Wood Wh@re
I bought an Echo CS-360T top handle just to find out what he was talking about. Been running the dog living piss out of it now for quite a few years. One job alone we used it to limb over 70 pine trees on an Estate in Deleware Ohio. It has good power for the cc's, dead solid reliable, and still hasn't developed the "death rattle" we were told was common for this model.
I guess that we know how to mix fuel and adjust carburetors here. Pretty likely the Echo "basher" and his beer drinking buddies had one of those pathetically underpowered Echo reed valve top handle saws once, straight gassed it, and continue to bash them decades later.
I also went thru quite a few other Echo saws here, CS-440, CS-510, CS-670, CS-6700 and CS-800. I still have the CS-6700 for my "loaner" saw, and kept the CS-510. The CS-510 is pound for pound by far and above the best of the bunch. The others were/are OK, but not nearly the power to weight ratio and chain speed of the CS-510.
Just some info from a guy with a shop that works on saws and other power equipment, and cuts at least 50 cords of wood a year, but what do I know?.......Cliff
I just returned a 192t to a local dealer, which I reluctantly bought about a week ago when my 011avt's both decided not to run in a tree. Took home a nos 360t instead. Real service like that is hard to beat, and I gotta plug this dealer for that.
I am not a very patient guy when I am climbing and a saw craps out. I understand that climbing puts unique stresses on a saw, but poor designs and no reliability is just unacceptable. And, I really turn purple in the face when some 600 plus dollar saw fails. I gotta say, without trying to stir up some huge AS trainwreck here, that I am finally sick and tired of messing with German saws. They were replaced in my stable years ago for every sized saw except an arborist's top handle. And, yesterday I evicted 'em from that slot in the fleet. Feels good, too.
I am curiously optimistic about this little Echo, and heartened to hear of your positive experience with one.