Buying stihl chainsaw

[mike van]

Lasi I knew, the only 2 Stihls marked "made in Germany" were the 660 & 880. My 3 year old 660 has never missed a beat, my 44 year old 041 gets used all the time, and the 200T I put together from a basket of parts starts on 2 pulls. You can get good & bad with every brand, every dealer.

 

[Jon1270]

10.85lbs if my converting is right. Pic taken by a fellow in Europe I believe. Still has the cheesy plastic handle.

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Count me as being very doubtful about that. Stihl's page on the 261C-M still lists the weight at 11.5 pounds. and the manual for the 261 C-Q shows 11.7 pounds. If they'd somehow shaved off more than 10 ounces I think they'd be saying so.

 

[7acres]

Count me as being very doubtful about that. Stihl's page on the 261C-M still lists the weight at 11.5 pounds. and the manual for the 261 C-Q shows 11.7 pounds. If they'd somehow shaved off more than 10 ounces I think they'd be saying so.

They do say so. Page 53 of the owners manual for the ms261c-m reads,

Weigh dry without bar and chain MS 261 C-M: 10.8 lbs
(4.9 kg)

 

[LowbanksArcher]

Lasi I knew, the only 2 Stihls marked "made in Germany" were the 660 & 880. My 3 year old 660 has never missed a beat, my 44 year old 041 gets used all the time, and the 200T I put together from a basket of parts starts on 2 pulls. You can get good & bad with every brand, every dealer.

Is this something that's changed recently? My 3 year old ms261 says 'Made in Germany'

 

[maple1]

I fixed an MS250 once. It had 6 hoses, 2 Ts, Purge bulb and pickup to get fuel from tank to carb.
My Husky 55(s) have a hose and a pickup - they start in 2 pulls cold.
Stihl can engineer a solution where no problem exists.

My MS250 doesn't have a purge bulb.

 

[Jon1270]

They do say so. Page 53 of the owners manual for the ms261c-m reads,

Weigh dry without bar and chain MS 261 C-M: 10.8 lbs
(4.9 kg)

I stand corrected. Stihl has at least 2 versions of the manual posted on their corporate site, and I was looking at one dated 2013. The 2016 manual does indicate 10.8 pounds. I wonder where they found that much weight to cut?

 

[dougand3]

My MS250 doesn't have a purge bulb.

Then you're lucky. In the easy start version - you have hoses, T, bulb, canister to remove air from the carb. The fuel line isn't even in this pic.

 

[mike van]

Is this something that's changed recently? My 3 year old ms261 says 'Made in Germany'

I guess you just don't know who to believe anymore - ???