If you own a farm in Scandinavia where the generation before us planted the farm full of spruces (and yes those farms exist) and you somehow want to take field by field with your own chainsaw (instead of hiring in a company with a couple ponsees), there isnt a chainsaw who beat a 242 in such type work. It will beat the 346 OE or NE 365 days a year.
If your forrest is mixed with pine, oak, asp, birch, spruces the 346 is a far better choice.
Most of the new generation saws has got a longer powerhead compared against the classics, distance between the trottle - fromt handle bar has got longer, ie, less effective if you’re doing lots of limbing work compared against those classics saws with a short power head.
A modern saw has most of the times a more slim powerhead so I guess it goes up in up.
Your guys can make fun out of Bill, but those 240SG/SE, 340SG, 40, 44, 444 wasnt bad saws, they where compact and short but kinda fat compared against the 238 class & 242 class. They had quite good torque and was populare in Scandinavia.