Stihl MS 271 or Echo CS 590

[Carburetorless]

I haven't bought it yet.

 

[CanopyGorilla]

I ran an Echo top handle for a few weeks willing to give it a real go. Not the saw in question, but i was willing to try Echo. It was a poorly built, boggy, hard starting, underpowered, piece of goat ****. We tried to tune it, then we gave it to a damn fine saw tech to tune. No luck. I brought it back to the store I bought it from and told them if they would take it back I would buy a 201t. They did. End of Echo for me. If they didn't take it back I was planning on stuffing the oil tank with black powder and letting it echo off into eternity.
End of rant.