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I know this is somewhere in the archives here. Just spent about an hour looking but found nothing specific. So when did the 025, 026, 036, 044 etc. change over to the MS 250, MS 260, MS 360 ect.
It varied by model but mostly 2000-2001. The 066 was the last in 2003 (I think).
It varied by model but mostly 2000-2001. The 066 was the last in 2003 (I think).
088 was the last one here, 2004.....(The Troll said so, lol.....)
088 was the last one here, 2004.....(The Troll said so, lol.....)
It might have been here too... Hard to say..particularly when they only sell about 20 a year for the entire USA!
They don't give outsiders that info...:hmm3grin2orange: You know somthing is up when you buy a saw from Stihl Inc and the date code is 4 years old! I bought an MS200, and it was three years old before I got it "fresh" from the factory. Buy a 250 or 361, and it was made a couple, of weeks ago.. The last MS880 I sold was two years old from Stihl.
Mid 2001.
Kind of interesting... 20 US units per year on the 880... Puts an owner in a pretty exclusive club. But like a lot of odd/big equipment, it's not for everyone and expensive enough to keep the curious away. I wonder what the average yearly US sales figures are on the 660. I guess 2500 saws.
Once upon a time, I had a "special-edition" Harley that was one of 600 made... Before I sold it, I wrote to Milwaukee with my VIN and got a sequence # (IIRC mine was 132/600) If one is going to 'collect' things, that stuff might be important, but for a user?
Vehicles are usually tracked/sold by model year... I guess not so for OPE. As long as the thing hasn't been stored in the salty bilge of some derilect freighter for umpteen years, I don't think it'd bother me to get a "new" one that wasn't born yesterday.
They don't give outsiders that info...:hmm3grin2orange: You know somthing is up when you buy a saw from Stihl Inc and the date code is 4 years old! I bought an MS200, and it was three years old before I got it "fresh" from the factory. Buy a 250 or 361, and it was made a couple, of weeks ago.. The last MS880 I sold was two years old from Stihl.
Hmmmm, with Huskys, Jreds and Dolmars (even Poulans), it is easy to tell when the saw in question was made, but not so with the Stihls - they need to clean up their act, as it really isn't acceptable......:biggrinbounce2:
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