7sleeper
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192T's only saviour it's the most agile TH saw (except of course the nonsense chinese 25cc toys from wallymart) and a 192T's nice and light and easy on the arms. The engine will last for homeyard Joe and co, burns it's guts out on commercial stuff. Don't ask, they're reasonably tough engine but still cheaply-made garbage in the whole scheme of things
Now to the horribly plastic-feeling 360T mmwwaahah, there's various know-alls on this site who get all snotty when I tell 'em the 360T is just a POS, some here claim they're professional users but the saws I'm talking about do triple their hours in one month than they'll do in 6 months. Just seen YET ANOTHER 360T burn it's guts out, the sixth so far, gutted muffler and jetted this one lasted a whole six months or so. Needless to say buggered seals from grooved crank means throw into the river or keep as spares for the next POS echo that comes along...
But big improvement over the usual 3-4 weeks running stock from the shop where they overheat themselves to a screeching halt before long. Pro-stihls and huskies still running sweet after ten years on original crank with a bit of a spruce up to the top-end every couple of years or so. Music to the ears as the echos do their death rattle.
I see your back.
What I don't quite understand and hope you can clarify is the following. You always mention that Echo's saws all "burn" to death from overheating. As far as I have understood these tophandle saws are made for climbers. Now I'm not a climber but all the climbing I have seen does not include long cutting times. The principle is move from one branch to another, delimb and move on. How can a saw overheat in such a working environment? When the wood get's proportionally large the climbers change over to larger saws. Maybe you already explained it in one of your raves and I missed it but could you please explain what is done different in NZ.
Thank you,
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