I know another weak spot on them is the ignition. It has the sem coil and they're still available through stihl. So that's a plus. The not so good about that coil is its $230. I have a 056 mag 2 on my work bench that I am putting a new sem coil on. If I would get it, I am gonna do some research and will port it. Or send it to have ported.
Yes I know timber cutters are hard on saws. My father in law is one. Especially when you have a few month old ms462 and it gets ran over by the skidder. Ouch.
I say if you can afford it you better own it. After a couple shoulder surgery's I just don't mess with the old chain saws any more. The last few times we needed my 660 on a couple trees I let my buddy run it. Can't say I ever saw a 056 around here. A fellow in my area used to run a 090 with a five foot bar on it. I had him take down a couple big cotton woods with it years ago. Not for sure were that saw went when he passed away ten years ago.
That's what the guy said so who knows. It's his word against mine. If I would try to flip it, I agree on you can never get your labor back out of it. Especially on a project saw. The parts he mentioned that it needed was the fuel line in the tank, some screws and a couple of av buffers. So far I can come up with the parts that it needs that he said. But I won't know until I get started with it. He said it ran before he took it apart. He took it apart due to the rotted fuel line in the tank. So it a 50/50 chance. It's definitely not a saw I will run that much. But would be cool to have an old muscle saw with a bigger bar for the times you need it.
Ok ok ok ok, you can quit twisting my arm. 200+ saws? What monsters do you have? You almost have enough saws for everyday of the year.
I show up to cut trees down or buck up fire wood with six running saws in my saw trailer and folks around here think I am crazy. I like to be prepared for any issues that might come up.
When I bought my very first saw, it was a stihl ms441 with 25" bar. It was my do everything saw from trimming trees to cutting the down and bucking them up. I used to get a a lot of crap trimming my trees with that beast. After holding that beast up over your head to trim a limb makes you realize, that's dumb to do that. So from there on I started the saw addiction.
No that's for retirement.
