60cc Saw - Husqvarna 555 vs Echo CS620P

Glad your liking it so well !!
But I wouldn't call the extra for a Husky 555 or 562xp a "waste"
There has to be a better word . Maybe more frugal ? Lol.
I'm being too sensitive I supposed !

 

The 620 is a great saw. I cut with a guy who has one and it runs like a top. We cut side by side in the same wood, his cs620 vs my ported 350, and they are side by side. Sometimes he drops a round first and sometimes I do. He has not modded it at all. I have run it a few times and it's a nice saw.

 

I think Echo might just wake up the 2 $leeping giant$ if they're paying any attention.
I also added (my 2nd) Echo filling in the 60cc category under my big old Stihl 044.

 

With the 620, I flip the switch on pull the cord and cut wood. My Husqvarna 450e takes voodoo. I have not figured out a technique. After enough pulls and various combinations of throttle, choke settings, primer bulb pumps, and Tourette's outbursts, it will randomly start. Or I'll take a break, have a beer or two and let it cool down, then it'll start right up.

 

My Husky 450 never had that issue. Just curious if you tried different ways. My leaf blower is very different from my saws. Took me a while to realize it but for cold starts, I prime the carb and give it one pull on choke, not till it fires a couple times, then to fast idle and most times it starts second pull. None of my saws do that. But it restarts easily hot with just one pull.
My dads 435 80% of the time wants the switch on fast idle for hot restarts, which again is different from any of mine. Mine just fire up with a pull of the rope and the decomp pushed. One thing I read, if you’re in the habit of pushing that in, try starting it with it out. That resolved it for a guy in another saw forum.

 

My 372 x-dork was the same way, it would flood with the decomp pushed in and wouldn’t start for crap.

 

Proper carb tuning along with good gas, good plug, and a clean air filter make starting any 2 stroke easy. A muffler mod helps too. All of my saws and weed wackers start easy. All of them have at least some degree of muffler mod, but nothing crazy. You have to be able to hear the pop or you'll flood it.

 

"You gotta hold your mouth just right" is an old saying that comes to mind.

 

Told a guy to stick his tongue outta the corner of his mouth to start an old 4.2KW generator on a command track once. The ncoic on duty at the time thought I was pulling his leg and started chuckling.

he wasn’t laughing too much when it popped off and fired.

I looked at the nco and said, “ he gave it a little more grunt and that was the extra speed it needed to fire….”

he just stared at us both and couldn’t believe it was running from sticking his tongue out.

we laughed all the way back to our own camp that night.

 

I forgot the tongue trick. We had an Evinrude 15hp that could be playful about starting. Utilizing the tongue trick, I could always get her going with no more than 3 pulls!

 

I’ve always started every brand of saw I’ve ever touched the same way. Full choke, pull till it pops, then choke off hold the trigger wide open. Have never had that fail on dozens of saws on a cold start. You have to be able to pull it left handed for that to work though. On hot start, I never choke on first pull. If saw has cooled somewhat and doesn’t start on first pull, then I choke and pull til it pops then no choke and full throttle. If hot starting a saw with a primer bulb, I have found that 8-10 pumps on the primer to get some cool gas to the carb helps. I have owned several homeowner saws in the past that were a female dog to restart when hot. Saws that don’t restart, don’t live at my house very long.

 

I've had a 620 around for 2 years, I like it alot. Great 60cc saw. You can run D009 husky bars on them also. Some of the echo bars have weird drive link counts, which is a pain.