Thoughts on Echo Chainsaws?

Echo quality has been top notch on any that I’ve been into. They don’t always have the frills and ergo comforts of husky or stihl. But they’re dead nuts functional and reliable

 

I like Echo chainsaws but they are a little different. They are more like a pickup where the pro Stihl's and Husky's are like race cars. Echoes are slightly heavier, slightly detuned and built like a tank. They are also easy to work on with less plastic cladding. It would be interesting to have one ported and see what they are ultimately capable of.

 

All the echo products I have / had responded well to a muffler mod and removal of the carb limiters. They are pretty choked off out of the box. Even my hand held blower is muffler modded. I picked up just over a 1000 RPM at wide open throttle from that.

 

Have an echo 8000. I cut a lot of wood with frequent restarts. Pull strings were constantly breaking and had some issues with the recoil on the string. Somehow they built an 80 cc saw without a decompression switch. Cold starts in the winter were tough on the shoulder. Outside of that, the saw is a runner.

 

Guessing you mean 2511t? What do you think you want for it if/when you sell it?

 

Never had any cord breaking issues but I agree it can be a beech when cold!

 

Yes, it's a T.
I'm thinking $360 shipped.

 

Or the power to weight ratio. Always heard they are heavier than the competition (per cc).

 

I agree. They tend to try to make up for it with torque, rather than horsepower.

 

They are definitely more ruggedly built than the competition and that's where the weight comes from. Have more of a old school feel to them.

 

I've had a 35ish year old CS-510 for about 10 years. Good saw. Well built.

 

Was this the 8000?

 

I was in the Home Depot rental shop the other day scoping out the rental saws and they had 2 Echo 590 Timberwolfs as rental units. That particular saw isn’t the same caliber as the Dolmar/Makita 6400s HD used to rent out but I assume they must be pretty reliable.

I’ve been seriously considering a CS-7310 for a 70ish cc saw to go along with my Jreds and Husky.

 

I like echos my buddy got the 410 model i think its called from home depot and we ripped up a huge ash tree no problems

 

I was looking for something a little bigger and ended up buying an Echo 620p. I liked it well enough that I bought an Echo cs400 for a small limbing saw. Both have been good runners.

 

Yes I have a 8000 and a 8000p and until recently a new 800 (got it at a steal and a friend wanted it). They all pull over hard. I start mine by pulling the rope slowly and when it goes over center pull like crazy, and hopefully it doesn't yank the handle through your fingers.
Nephew (know it all) went to show me how to hold hold it in your crotch and yank. That was funny.
Great saws, been complaining though about the air filters to myself since the 90's.
If echo sold a bigger saw in the states I would not have bought the Stihl 661.

 

I also have a 680 and it also has the manual override oiler.
Love that saw.

 

I have run a couple. A 590 and a 620, I think...could be wrong. They ran well and felt well built, but also felt very heavy. They had good power for off the shelf saws. I have stihl and husqvarna saws right now. The echo saws felt heavier than all of mine, which I didn't like because I got tired faster with echo.

 

I run mostly echo saws. 355t, 4910, ported 590. Honestly it was a money thing for me. I went to get a 362 and my dealer said the 590 will run the same for $400 less. He was right and I've been an echo guy since. I've run all the modern stihls thanks to farmer steve and the weight savings would be great but I just can't afford them.
My echos aren't the fastest or the lightest but they keep the gas man away at a price I can afford.