Picco chain on an MS251

[farmer steve]

I run .325" pitch semi-chisel with a 7-tooth sprocket to drive my Stihl MS251C, usually with either a 16"or 18" bar. The saw loves that. That's also what I use and recommend for the Stihl 025 and 026. I thus fear that I have to disagree with Farmer Steve on this one, and we seldom disagree.

My first Stihl,023 came with the 3/8p chain on it. When I got the 250 I just figured it made sense to go with the same size chain since the buy 2 get one free at my dealer worked for me. I do like the .325 on the 026.

 

[Justin Taylor]

I use 3/8 yellow on my ms250 works just fine

 

[HarleyT]

I use 3/8 yellow on my ms250 works just fine

Full 3/8?

Or picco 3/8?

 

[Justin Taylor]

Full 3/8?

Or picco 3/8?

Full

 

[SAWMIKAZE]

I've got an MS250 I'd like to try 3/8LP on. What did you do for a drum and sprocket/rim?

Use this kit. Then you can just swap to a .325 rim if you wanna go back.

I like PS on the 250/1 saws.

 

[chipper1]

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Have you ever tried picco on it, did you dislike it.

I do like the .325 on the 026.

Same question.

 

[farmer steve]

Have you ever tried picco on it, did you dislike it.

Same question.

Never tried picco on the 026. 023,250 and the 241 are the picco saws.

 

[chipper1]

Never tried picco on the 026. 023,250 and the 241 are the picco saws.

I've got picco on the 261cm vs2 16"x55dl iirc, it does great. Much more power than that and you might as well step up to standard 3/8, but the small chips are nice for cleanup on jobs, just hit the chips with the backpack blower and they disappear.
Get that setup Ryan posted and give it a shot, you might like it, maybe they'll throw one for the o26 in with the new 261 . I'd run it on my stock/lightly modded 346's if I didn't have like twenty 325 chains, and they had a good bar that took a standard sized chain and it wasn't .

 

[rumatt]

Picco cuts really well on my 241. Cutting a narrower slice means you cut faster. But there's not a lot of love for running it on more powerful saws and longer bars. It dulls faster, doesn't clear chips as well, stuff like that.

I would wait for the new narrow kerf chain coming soon stihl. I'm hoping it's the perfect compromise between 325 and picco for 50 cc saws.

 

[chipper1]

Picco cuts really well on my 241. Cutting a narrower slice means you cut faster. But there's not a lot of love for running it on more powerful saws and longer bars. It dulls faster, doesn't clear chips as well, stuff like that.

I would wait for the new narrow kerf chain coming soon stihl. I'm hoping it's the perfect compromise between 325 and picco for 50 cc saws.

Yes, all that. Except I don't find that it dulls much faster when using the stihl picco, great chain.
Looking forward to trying that as well. Just got a loop of the husky x cut chain Friday, may try it this weekend.