Stihl trimmer pole saw hack

[Sbruneau]

Turns out you can put chainsaw head on ANY straight shaft stihl trimmer. Dealers will tell you otherwise. I needed to make a coupler to extend shaft length but the whole thing works like a charm. I posted a YouTube vid on how to do this.

 

[Birdyman88]

Except for an FS66. It [the engine and and shaft] rotates counterclockwise when looking down shaft from head to tip. Somehow I overlooked that part when I was trying to convert mine into an echo PAS type system. Took me a minute to figure out why the power pruner attachment wouldn't cut. It was spinning backwards, lol. But, you can use the heads intended for CCW rotating engines.