Stihl 026 $200 deal or no deal

STIHL 026 CHAINSAW 16 BAR

Looking at a Stihl 026 for $200. I know many of you love this saw and I could us it as a back-up trim saw. Thinking about making an offer for PHO and maybe throwing in my 025 parts saw that I have no use for.

What would you guys offer considering everything checks out with the 026?

 

Deal. Go get it before someone else does.

 

Working well and looks good it's a fair price.

 

could have a Chinese jug and slug....

 

Good point, if that matters too you make sure you check it out

 

How can you tell? How much difference will that make?

 

May not last as long perform as well (power etc) it turns that $200 saw into a possible $100 saw .

You can look at it. You need to figure out what the casting marks a stihl has in it.

I don't remember what they have cast in them. But the Chinese may have copied it as well.

But usually the casting is not as clean, where the halves meet etc there is flash where the 2 meet.

 

Got mine at aQUOTE="Dakota Hoarder, post: 661768, member: 4149"]STIHL 026 CHAINSAW 16 BAR

Looking at a Stihl 026 for $200. I know many of you love this saw and I could us it as a back-up trim saw. Thinking about making an offer for PHO and maybe throwing in my 025 parts saw that I have no use for.

What would you guys offer considering everything checks out with the 026?[/QUOTE]




Got mine in a pawnshop for 200. 20 inch bar but everything was fine.

 

I am sorry I should have elaborated....i basically was thinking of a reason to lower the price....

I use Chinese parts clamshells I sell...mostly homeowners buy these and they will last them years.....some china parts are better than others...

As far as a difference, kept one of the first MS180c that I rebuilt to see how the china parts would hold up....sure enough it never had problems and I ran the hell out of it....

 

Did you get rid of that china 180 you had? That wasn't that long ago, if you got rid of it, so much for a longevity test. I really was looking foward to that one.

That said I have a few china saws. And u run them hard and they have not let me down yet.

 

If you are offering up the 025 parts saw to the guy with the 026, I'd be trying to buy for $125-$140 plus the 025. That's a pretty early 026. A great trimming saw, pretty well dominated the 50cc class for many years. I know I'd never be without an 026 in my arsenal. I've put many cords of wood in piles with an 026. Hard to beat an 026 if you're talking 10" or smaller wood and a $200 budget. Wicked fast cutters with a 16" .325 8 pin setup. If you can get in the $125 range, it would still be worth what you have in it even if you have to put an OEM p&c on it. If you're talking $200, then have to put a piston and cylinder on it, then you're talking about going from a good deal to just an okay deal. I've owned lot and lots of 026s, always trying to get a nicer and nicer one each time.

 

I've got a pretty nice one now...

 

Lol...I kept one for around a for awhile I thought, but I got so much going on I can't remember what I have ate for lunch sometimes.....that isn't along time, but the work I put it threw would be 10-years worth if the average MS180c buyer....

I was going to keep it, but I had a guy come to buy a ms250, and he would only buy the 250 if I sold him that ms180....needless to say, she moved on down the road...

I have a few guys that bought a ms250 2-3 years ago that's local....it's got a china piston in a Stihl Jug and they loves them...

 

And we have a winner folks LOL....

 

Im hoping the same for my made in china stove. Its a Canadian company. Just made there. So far they say the people who make them are trained by the company. Im not buying a toy. Its a wood stove so hopefully quality still shows even though the stigma seems to follow.

 

I will say it like this, when I personally rebuild a clamshell that I intend to sell, I use Chinese piston and a Stihl jug 99% of the....I have not had anyone bring back a saw and say "hey man you sold me a bad chainsaw lol".....pro saws===different story....

I have a full-time job , so I don't need the money, I just enjoy working on the saws.......if I was rebuilding these saws and had a problem with them failing, I would do something different.....

 

At the farmhouse I have a vogelzang stove. It's crude and it's a very small stove (I set it into the fireplace so I had to stay with a certain size) but the house is small. And it keeps the house warm in the winter when I am there in this climate. I probably would not want one as my main stove but as a secondary or back up or in a vacation or second infrequent home like I have it in, it works fine.

 

A lot better price than over here DH.

Kijiji Canada

 

I was looking at vogelzang as a backup choice. Theres a high efficiency (vg 150) that is about $200 cheaper than the vogelzang Durango depending on where you buy from. The stove is small but it takes 26 inch long splits, then the vg 150 takes 17 inches. These were just backups thinking my stove might be too big but the costs i paid for my stove outweighs these two. That being that I paid less for my stove and legs than these two and free shipping from CA. So I can't complain but I cant say anything positive yet. Based on hearsay and reviews. For my stove there are not many reviews but hardly anyone is upset with the timberwolf 2200. I want to write a well thought out review when im done next year. Folks who bought and submitted a review have been ok as a whole but sub par for wood burners who like details. I wanna know what you burned all year and what you did during the cold snaps and in betweens.

Sorry OP I went astray here on the topic. Report this if necessary.

 

Picked up the 026 today for $150 and my useless bad compression 025, everything checked out. Runs strong starts easy. I'm going to put in some fresh gas and cut some cookies in a bit.


This should settle my CAD got awhile... Until brake down and get the 261 to complete the set