MS 150 worlds lightest top handle

STIHL engineers. Great bunch' I'll have to upload a vid of my stock 201 because it is a good saw for me. I just don't seem to have the same problems some have had. Either I am just lucky or some are unlucky.
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Me thinks they gave you an altered saw. This saw is totally useless unless modified Mark. Mine is getting modified tomorrow. I used it yesterday all day on a td and it has no power. This from a guy that cuts every day with a climbing saw for 44 years. Every ms 201 manufactured and sold MUST be modified or it is virtually useless.
 
The strong feelings come from the fact that the 020 200T were the best chainsaws ever made, amazing engineering, that translated into a saw with huge power to weight. We used them for years and kept them sharp and then the powers that be forced change based on doing the right thing for the planet we live and work on. Humans do not like change, it forces us out of our comfort zone. It's just a chainsaw.
The 201 is at the beginning of a production run, it will get better. In a few years changes in wood cutting technology will probably make this discussion seem silly.
 
Mark, it is obvious that you think that the saw I bought and others bought are like the saw you have made or obtained that is in your video.

That means that you must also think there is some degree of incompetence in the evaluation of this saw by myself and others.

My saw, bought a couple of weeks ago, and the saw shown are about as similar as a skinny midget and shaqueil Oneil.

Product loyalty may be admirable...but blind ignorance is, well, just ignorance.
 
Uuuuuhm, back to the 150T. This is the most exciting saw to me in a decade or 2. Bought one a week or so after Treevet. Modded it the day I got it (ran decent but modds really helped) its been very reliable, fun to run, so precise for pruning (I've made bore cuts starting with the top tip of the bar without a hint of kickback. This is great when pruning old dead stubs trapped in tight forks with inclusions etc) the stock chain is great and you aren't going to be making stump cuts with it so it will last long. PRECISION PRUNING + LOW WEIGHT
 
I'm not offended. I think that you missed why I felt that I should post the video and that's more to keep my credibility rather than take away from yours. I just wanted to show you all visually what my experience is. And for the record, that saw was picked up off of the shelf from my dealer. No mods yet! I have no reason to doubt your impressions of your saw and they may well be the same that I would have with your saw. After all, you have been very positive with your review of the new MS 150.

As for the 150, I too love the precision cuts I can make with it and of course how light it is. I give thumbs up!
 
My 201 has had THE mod and after 2 long days of storm damage...I am as happy as can be with this saw and don't mind in the least the 50 extry it cost me. Cheers Chis, Nick and the whole tree world...got me a brandy new ascs kickn climbin saw again.
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is the 150 derived from some other saw like a Komatsu Zenoah with a few stihl modifications or is it a Stihl original?

What's it story?
 
nice pict Blackie.

Don't know if I mentioned it but beside my 201, afterwards got my ms 150 "Snellorized" (Brad Snelling, Springboro Ohio) and it is quite a marked improvement in power and torque. So noted of a dif. that I took it up to do a modest td yesterday. It is competent in even chunking bar width chunks. I love it.

But just a little fyi I learned yesterday.

1. Its logistics are different from what you are used to with a 200/201, and if, like me, the bulk of your income is earned by one handing and cutting and tossing (or pushing, etc.) then this saw is just a little different in that it will not quite get through the piece quite as fast so that as you are cutting and holding and you expect to be thru it....you may not be as expected...consequences are that your hand holding the piece MAY be in the same place (since you have (have) to hold it so ad not to crush a roof etc) at the same time as the bar on a tardy cut thru. In other words you may be almost forced to take the hit... With the 200/201 you are golden.

2. If you are into 50 plus hours on a Sat. pm and trying to finish a job that is in the 7k+ range and not take it into Mon. cause you have other people mad at you for not being there...well...your judgement may not be ...as good as it should be or usually is.

3. If you have 1 out of 2 gm's that chose to take the day off because they were up late and you decide to do a td by yourself in lieu of having the other guy lower and instead have him get the clean up done...and you have most of the tree overhanging the formal gardens of an estate next door...well you likely are putting yourself in the bad choice zone again.

Lesson learned that probably will last more than 10 years which is my average for cuts in my 44 year career so far. (see above att.) (previous 1 on other on thumb, one on forefinger and one on knee doing a stump when tired)

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Not an offensive picture (but I won't embed) but a very lucky accident if there is such a thing and, lesson learned...in spades. There is an old scar on the top of that thumb, and an old one on my forefinger that you prob. cannot see.
 

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I orderd a stihl file guide for the MS 150 1/4 stihl picco Mini chain, file size is a 1/8in. PN# 5605 750 4300........the 5/32 for ms 200 T will not work, to big..just FYI
 
Got to give one of these a test run out of the bucket last week deadwooding a willow.

Nice saw!
Easy on the wrists!
Surprising power for 26cc's!

Hoping Santa might stuff one in my stocking this Christmas.
 
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