My Honda Civic is alot better on gas than my Dodge 3500...
But it takes me about 30 trips to deliver a cord of wood in the Civic...
Yah, well think of the 441 as a Chevy Duramax when compared to your Dodge 3500. Better transmission, better ride, more reliable (than the new ones), better quality build, similiar or better mileage than the newer ones, Mom and Dad's gets 22mpg mine gets 19-21 depending on how hare the pedal is pressed.
Long and short of it, I have cut with the 460, I have used my 441 around other 460's, I have used stock and modded 460's around stock and modded 660's and the 441 (especially modded) will cut more wood than either of those two with all wearing either a 24" or 28" bar. You can't find one person that has used both saws that will not speak of how fuel efficient the saw is, you simply cut too much more wood with the 441 to deny it, its that noticeable.
As to the speed portion of the equation, most every video I have observed shows the 441 within 1 lousy second of the 460, the modded ones are still within 1 lousy second of the modded 460 or they are beating the 460, so safe to say you don't need to bring a book along to read if you so choose to operate the 441 over the 460.
As to its weight issue, I guess we can't deny that, I have never weighed mine, plenty have, if the saw does weigh more, fine, we loose one point. I have cut all day with 660's, 460's, 441's, (a few half days with a 440), 361's and 260's, I have yet to quit because the saw weight was different more or less.
I have had to quit because I ran out of gas, those quitting times are as follows:
Trees you can cut and top with one tank of gas:
361 - 14-16 24" Oak trees
441 - 10-12 24" Oak trees
460 - 5-7 24" Oak trees
660 - 4-6 24" Oak trees
The 441 is more efficient than the 460 hands down. So 1-2 seconds difference in the cut times are pointless, unless you can refuel that 460 in under 5 seconds, you aren't ever going to catch up with the 441, if the "work" is anything more than cutting cookies in your backyard.
I wanted to edit, that for the real world of cutting wood and not cookie cutting in your backyard. That means fewer trips walking back and forth between your fuel/oil jugs and where you are cutting trees (If like some you don't carry them to every tree). Its less trips up and down hills to get to those jugs or carrying those jugs. It might be the difference in getting in a few more trees before it gets dark or before you go to lunch or before a skidder gets there. Or it means that you still have gas while a skidder waits on you if they caught up to you, or you're half way through a cut or topping or limbing and run out. While the speed of the 460 is measured 1 second per cut in cookie cutting (which doesn't really tranlate into real world cutting, but we'll go with it), the minutes of wandering around the countryside looking for your fuel jug adds up in minutes at a time, many times per day.
Just how it is,
Sam
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