Selling off my Stihl's and switching to Echo

The "G" referred to the saw having a gear reduction. Increase in tourq with a reduction in speed and available horsepower.

 

The 090G was a variant with gear reduction. Very rare bird. I could have special ordered one back then but didn't. Like my 028 and o75, no chain brake. They have the brake handles but no inner workings. Never cared much for chain brakes anyway. Like TPMS sensors on vehicles. Not needed with common sense. In fact, the Echo saws use an outboard brake band in the outer housing that can be removed easily and I may do just that. Sort of like the in muffler cat that I removed or should I say replaced with a non cat muffler.

Just like my pre 4 Kubota's, I don't care for emissions stuff and all the complexity associated with it.

 

Not a picture person but I may post a picture of the 090, the 075 and the 028 all sitting together on the bench just for the drool factor... The 75 and the 90 came with square tooth, skip tooth chipper chains when I purchased them. Probably what will happen is, I'll die (remember, I'm 73 and not in the best of health) and my wife will sell them for peanuts. Be like my motorcycles and all the machine tools I own. She knows nothing about any of that stuff.

Least I have a prior verbal agreement with my Kubota dealer (the owner and I are pretty good friends) where he will come and fetch everything and sell it (he's a good seller and a volume dealer) and give my wife the proceeds minus a 10% fee. I must have at least close to 200 grand in farm equipment and it's all paid for. He's told me both tractors will bring close to what they cost me new and I paid almost 50 for the cab tractor and 42 for the open station when I bought them in 2002 and 2004.

I own 2 Triumph motorcycles, one with a sidecar on it and a pristine 750 Norton high pipe scrambler, 67 vintage. One with the sidecar is a Centennial Bonnevillle and the other is a 2300 Rocket 3 dresser.

I've collected a huge amount of 'toys' over the years and that don't include any of the guns I own either.

 

Thanks guys! Learned something new. Were you able to see the link of the 090 for sale here in Connecticut.

 

Please do post pics. They are your pride and joy and should show them off.

 

My 'pride and joy' is my only son and my grand daughters. He's a Georgia State Highway Patrol officer and a K9 handler. Not that I wanted him to become a peace officer, but I don't interfere with his choices, he is a grown man after all. I do find it somewhat arcane that being a northern 'cracker' but being a Georgia peace officer is kind of strange in my view but again, his choice, not mine.

All the other stuff are just objects I've acquired over the years. not a picture person, in fact the pictures of my tractors were taken by someone else.

 

Yes, I looked and I'd say his asking price is pretty good for an antique....lol

 

That in my opinion is a fair price for the saw if nothing is broken missing welded ect.
If that was close to me it might very well be added to my collection.

 

Kinda funny story behind that. He sells saws on FBM on a regular basis. I spied TWO 090's on his bench in the background and inquired about them. He finally listed one.

I thought it was a reasonable price for the condition.

 

Definitely is reasonable in my opinion. Have you seen it personally? Wonder what condition the unlisted one is in.
You buying one?

 

I have not. I think he had an 880 and/or 028 pictured on the same work bench and the 090 in the background. I noticed the calendar in all of them too!

The thought crossed my mind of buying one, but my common sense (whatever common sense i have when it comes to CAD) prevailed.

I admit i have too many saws already! but its not a problem if you admit it, right?

 

Never, EVER count your saws!
How many is too many if you don't know how many you have?

 

I made the mistake of counting all the saws I have, both running and not, and it was over a dozen. Nobody NEEDS that many, right?

 

Amateur....

 

I have nothing but good things to say about Echo saws. You can also buy parts for them online, but Ive never needed to aside from maintence kits.

 

A dozen is pretty respectable for only being 4 months into the year.
I'm at 16 so you're not far behind.

 

I just cut with a guy yesterday and he had a cs620. It was no slouch. It looks like they make around 5 hp at 11-11.5k rpm, and that sounds about right, because it was right there with my ported 350. We were both running 3/8 chain in the same log, so it was an even playing field. If I had been running .325 chain, I would have been a good bit faster in the cut.

.325 vs 3/8 chain is no contest. The smaller drive rim on the .325 puts more torque to the chain. It's something I miss now that I am using 3/8 chain. The torque difference in the cut is in the 10-14% range.

 

Interesting, I never noticed the pitch diameter being different.
Or that .325 chain speed is slower than the same saw in .375.
3/8 does turn more log into chips than.325 so I always assumed that was the reason for the speed difference in the cut.

 

I have stihl chain in both .325 and 3/8, and the teeth are about the same size. The .325 is moving slower, but it has more teeth in the wood and has more torque because the rim is much smaller than 3/8. I can say with 100% confidence that .325 is faster than 3/8.

 

That 090 reduced to $1500.