No and really new to their chainsaws only had their weed wacker and a small leaf blower, just went with the Stihl chainsaw because of my dealing with my Stihl service person and reading the forums like this one.
Where i have gotten a lot of good items of learning is from the Eastside Tree Works web site, and the videos their "Guilty of Treason" watching these men and seeing what they are using has really given me some insight. Not saying i will ever be able to do anything close to what they are doing, but it's nice to think i might like trying some of it. Oh No.....Ha! Ha! maybe in a dream.
I just took my Stihl CM211CM standard Carb. system to see how it would start at 30F, tried my standard procedure and nothing, went through full choke to run maybe 20 times still nothing. Took a rest tried again nothing another short rest it gave a little "cough" still nothing after another rest gave it a try no choke and Wam! Bam! off it went. The CM211 runs great after it does start but it sure don't quickly start, think if floods very easyly i will have to work on this detail. Stihl sure could use the DeComp valve and eazy flex pull handle on this baby, really makes me love my CM261C-M .
I went over there to ask what the cost would be to convert my Stihl CM211 into an easy start saw, it would be around $175 just for the parts without the labor, guess i must buck up to pulling the cord. As it would be better to sell my CM211 and buy a new easystart saw, and i don't think i want to do that.
I have it in storage in town. The next time I am there I will take a picture of it and get the model number. That would be awesome.
Guy that owns the local Stihl shop said he’s had lots of problems with the auto tune models. I guess as long as there are still some of the conventional offerings, but I can’t help but worry that it only a matter of time.
I remember people saying they did trust the new jet engines would only fly on a propeller type aircraft.
I reached out to one of our Stihl techs on the fire department today. He said it looks like we may be swapping all of our new auto-tune saws for NOS conventional Stihl saws. Nothing set in stone yet though.
Sounds like even the German engineers do not trust their engineering to me. It looks to me, that in an effort to beat the competition they rushed out a product that was not even close to being ready for the consumer. They might have it ready one day but they are far from it right now. If it was a jet engine it would be falling out of the sky.
I have a MS 362 and a 461. damm I would love a 500. The 362 is one fine firewood saw so the 461 does not get as much use. Consequently, I doubt I will be forking over $1300.00 for the 500 anytime soon.
Who? Just in case you did not notice this was not a Stihl bashing discussion it was more if a new technology verses the old discussion. I myself happen to like Stihl products and own quite a few of their saws, weed eaters and use them all the time.
Since we were discussing Mtronic verses conventional carb saws let us not forget about the cost of repair. Parts and labor will be more for the Mtronic.
True. When I talked to our Stihl tech, he mentioned how hard the new auto tuners are to work on. He said “I can rebuild a chainsaw, but not a computer.” This is a guy who managed a farm and garden rental business, before he got on the fire department. He’s no dummy. He’s been working on small motors professionally for over 20 years. I know that the Mtronic saws are the wave of the future. Just like most modern vehicles are basically an electric vehicle with a gas motor. I don’t see the technology regressing at this point. But there are definitely some hiccups with it so far. I just hope my old MS 460 keeps running for many more years to come.
