If I were sitting with my wife and not at a logging camp, I’d ask her what you said. But I’m not, so English please lol

Think about her and get home safe,,…..!

I do what I can, I’ve been pretty successful so far. I did return to her with a broken collarbone once, but that was because a piece of bark cut loose of a cedar log I was walking down, and I landed on a stump below me after I went behind over tea kettle

Getting hurt when you have a Colombian wife is a bad idea. ....LOL I'm sure Timber Tramp knows what I mean.

Hey Vinke, you sprechen sie Spanish purty good.

Yeah, especially one that’s a paramedic. I get chewed out a lot about not being kind to my body lol

Very nice.

It's 10 cc bigger than the 372.

You probably cut more in a month than my crew does in a year. I wear out a 201t every year but out bigger saws last until someone hits them with a machine usually...

Donner, that makes sense, I average 30,000 board feet (scribner scale) per 6 hour day

10 cc larger, electronic fuel injection and .7 lbs lighter. 13.9 lb vs 14.6lb for the Husky.

Saw shop let me fire a 500 I up last month and the throttle response was crazy. Prime it them pull the cord no standard choke tell pop then take off choke to start.

I just bought a 261 for a small lighter saw for my boys. 50 cc about 10 lb and .4 base horse power. compared to over 12lb for my 361 60 cc 4.3 bhp as from the factory before 18 years of use and having it soupped up. smaller thiner bar as well. the little I have ran it for cutting as desined that little 261 is great. buried and ripping it will plug up and could use more low end torque but that's not what it's for just had a big for our area tree and had to rip it down to be able to move it. the 361 with 4" longer bar and thicker bar did Handel the ripping better and not plug up. I have not had the 261 hopped up yet and can't wait to see how it does when it is.

I haven’t had a chance to play with many of the smaller saws, I have a little 211 that rides around on my snow machine in the winter, but it’s less than impressive. It’s light and small for on the trapline, and it’s always started for me, but it’s gutless lol

The little saws seem to be a crapshoot regardless of brand. You can buy three of the same model and one will be reliable and one mediocre and one junk. I've heard that Echo makes a good little pro saw, but I wouldn't even know where to buy an Echo.

I'm packing a 171 currently because it is one of the cheapest little saws Stihl makes and I prefer Still over Husky, although I've ran both. It has been good and reliable so far, but dad had one that was garbage from brand knew. Same with the 211, except his was good and mine was junk. I had an 009 that was a good little tiny saw (and a Pro saw, so expensive and better built) but they are hard to get parts for now.

I have an echo 2511 and had it opened up when I bought it. Figured for the price if it didn't have enough power I could also get the larger echo and have 2 saws one for a back up for the price if one top handled sthil. since it's only 4 lbs vs 8 I thought it may be better for my out of shape body when climbing. Well it woks or did but as expected from a 25 cc saw has no power..

I have not used it much since I have not done any tree work for years and it's only use has been personal use taking down a few dieing maples over the house and a little cutting on the ground when the kids were small it was so easy for them to use. Last time I went to use it it didn't hardly turn the chain. I put it up grabbed a different saw and have not looked at it since to figure out what the problem is. My 14 year old reminded me about it in the last 2 weeks after he tried to use it for some quick cutting.

Echos have always been easy to start and reliable but low powered from all I have ran. Not sure what's going on with this one.

I’ve never held an echo. I have a 372 husky (the only saw I own that’s not a stihl) but I’ve never used it commercially. A neighbor gave it to me when his throttle cable broke (after a lot of cussing and having to feed fishing line through the handle to pull a new one through, I understood why) it cuts, but it’s not a power house. And it feels like a wind-up toy.

I seen an Echo one time, but although they are a fairly big name back east and on the internet, They just aren't around, or any dealers for them out here. Pretty much Stihl and Husky out here, with some old Homelites and Poulans thrown in for cheap, small saws. Used to be some McColloughs around for the cheap, off brand saw niche for the homeowner, but they were about the most unreliable thing I've ever seen.

The bigger Husky's werent bad saws, I got a 385 off a friend that tried it for falling. I cut a lot of firewood with that saw, but compared to a Stihl, comparing apples to apples the Huskys are usually heavier and they don't have the chain speed. I know in the smaller "homeowner" saws they had went a lot cheaper,

most of the crews I've worked with over the years ran Stihl.

I want to say it was about 12 or 13 years ago, we had a guy show up at a camp with a dolmar and a makita. Definitely the strangest “pro” saws I’ve ever seen. I actually didn’t mind how they feel in the hands, but he was an idiot for thinking 70cc’s was adequate for using on any of these islands. The pre commercial thinning crews run 70cc power heads…

If you are just cutting some firewood they will work fine. . . Until you run a real saw. I got spoiled as a teenager, had been running my dad's old still 41 and he got a hopped up 64. I got ahold of that thing and didnt want to ever go back. Then later on I got a hopped up 66 from a friend. I've never been happy with a smaller saw since. I want to be able to sink the dogs to it and bury the bar without it struggling. I've no need for a hot saw anymore. All I do is cut about ten cord of wood a year. But once you've ran a real saw it is hard to go back to one that you have to hold back so it doesn't bog down.

Hmm I wonder if that little ms 261c is m tonic or if that needs cm an it's not. 5 sec Google and it was not clear to me.