That particular saw looks pretty beat.
I haven’t had anything stripped on any of the ones I’ve had or the crew has had. Maybe I’m just lucky.
The 441 is a good, solid saw. They are very, very smooth and very operator friendly. Good power, and very good torque for their displacement. They had a good, long production run too, if that says anything. They filter air better than most Stihl saws and did I mention they were smooth and very good with a 25 or a 28 inch bar? Plenty of guys ran 32s in softwoods with these saws too.
They are not so kind to the repair guy. The air box assembly is an act of an engineer who became addled trying to copy someone else’s (Husqvarna) design and finally threw in the towel and just made up some parts using the roughest form of Bernoulli’s equation and the fact Q=VA, plus the Darcy-Weisbach equation that got the right amount of air where it needed to go. The little quick-release pieces that hold the air filter cover on like to come off in the field, unlike a Husqvarna saw, but that’s neither here nor there.
The covers are kind of a pain to put together, and the M-Tronic wiring can be painful to route.
All that said, most 441s after the bugs were worked out, and there were some early on around 2007 or 2008 as Stihl released the saw before, I think, it was ready, don’t require a lot of maintenance. That’s part of the reason I like them so much for crew saws. They take a beating and come back for more.
So, in short, I put the 441 behind the 461 and close to, or tying the 440 in its size class for Stihl of what I’ve used, which includes the current 462. They’re good saws that got a bad rap early on.