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Old 25th December 2007, 03:30 PM   #51 (permalink)
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You missed the part where I gave it to my uncle.He swears by stihl and I'm husky loyal.
You need a MS361, as do everyone else!!!!
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Old 25th December 2007, 04:12 PM   #52 (permalink)
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Thats funny but not gonna happen in my lifetime.
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Old 27th December 2007, 08:56 AM   #53 (permalink)
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Old 27th December 2007, 12:34 PM   #54 (permalink)
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Excellent saw you are going to love it!

Amen to that!!!
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Old 27th December 2007, 03:08 PM   #55 (permalink)
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Mmmmm... just got home yesterday from my parents place. Took out my new 361 and decided that I needed to cut an already-perfect-sized round in half just to see how it'd work.

Smoooooooooooooooooth!!!!!

That thing is awesome! =) Thanks to all of you who gave me advice on it.

(sorry it's not a Husky, Newguy, but if you'd like to send me one of yours to try out I'd be glad to give it a whirl!)

This thing just puts my other saws to shame. Tryin to figure out how I managed to do so much with so little all these years.

So whats the difference between a Stihl ES bar and a GB Pro bar?
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Old 28th December 2007, 06:50 PM   #56 (permalink)
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I'd rep yah for that one... but uh, no rep here on TreeWoild.
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Old 28th December 2007, 06:57 PM   #57 (permalink)
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So whats the difference between a Stihl ES bar and a GB Pro bar?
OK, I have both types (and I have run them on my 361 to boot). The Stihl ES bars are all hardened steel, the GB Pro Top bars have hardened steel and titanium tipped rails and titanium in the nose sprockets. Some smaller features are 45 degree oil galleys on the GB, and what I think are better ball bearings in the sprocket. I think that the GB bars are a tad lighter too. Both are solid bars, with replacable nose sprockets, with 3 rivets. I think that the GB bars are made to tighter tolerances, and with better methods. Hard to get that kind of information out of either company though, and their web sites do not go into much detail.
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Old 28th December 2007, 08:47 PM   #58 (permalink)
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Thanks a ton Windthrown!!!

That's exactly what I was hoping to find out. Maybe I'll give the GB bar a shot if it's not too pricey here.

Spent the afternoon felling dead pines, and bucking them and windfallen ones in the Nat'l Forest on a Fire Department contract. First *real* workday for my 361. I had a big grin plastered across my stupid face for a couple hours. Probably looked like some happy tree cutting fool, if there had been anyone around to notice.
Kept noticing the ease it was cutting with and how it'd just tear right into and through stuff. Pretty far overkill for most of it, but haven't gotten any other bars for it yet. Want to get an 18".

The fallen pines are considered big fire hazard here so I didn't have any trouble getting at the stuff. It's all along trails that I can get my truck into, and all the wood I want.
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Old 29th December 2007, 03:33 AM   #59 (permalink)
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Windthrown...good info again on the bars mate...cheers
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Old 29th December 2007, 12:35 PM   #60 (permalink)
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Thanks a ton Windthrown!!!

That's exactly what I was hoping to find out. Maybe I'll give the GB bar a shot if it's not too pricey here.

(some snipped) Want to get an 18".
I forget what size bar you said you got with the 361. If you are cutting mostly pine and fir, I would suggest a 20 and 24 inch bar pairing. The 18 is a tad small for firs here, and I now tend to run my 361 more with the new 24 inch and the 20 inch from my 290, and run the 16 or 18 inch bars on the 290 (a change from my previous use model).

Also note that your 361 will get better after 12 or so tanks of gas, as the rings seat into the cylinder walls and a little carbon increases the compression a tad. I think that the GB Pro Top bars are about the same price as the ES bars. Around here they are anyway. Someone is selling GB PT bars on Ebay stores for a fairly good price with chains. Maybe a a better deal online without having to pay CA sales tax?
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Old 29th December 2007, 04:34 PM   #61 (permalink)
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I'd rep yah for that one... but uh, no rep here on TreeWoild.
That's cool - better keep it that way.....
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Old 29th December 2007, 04:36 PM   #62 (permalink)
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Thats funny but not gonna happen in my lifetime.

The MS361 really is a Husky, in hart, so just get one!!!
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Old 29th December 2007, 04:55 PM   #63 (permalink)
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but it orange and white and it says stihl.The chances of me owning another stihl is about the same as me owning a chevy.Not likley i'll stick with husky and ford.
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Old 29th December 2007, 05:22 PM   #64 (permalink)
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but it orange and white and it says stihl.The chances of me owning another stihl is about the same as me owning a chevy.Not likley i'll stick with husky and ford.
Eeeeeeshh.... Husky and Ford. Man, those are two names I do not like. The GF's Ford F250 4WD is a POS. Gets stuck in mud all the time. My Toyota Tundra can run circles around it. As for Husky, I never liked them. I did have a '55 Ford F100 that was nice. But that was the only one I had that I liked.
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Old 29th December 2007, 06:04 PM   #65 (permalink)
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Windthrown,

Could be. I'll have to check it out.

It was originally supposed to come with a 20", but I requested the 25" with it, and they swapped it at no extra cost.

Probably 70% of my work is on pines and firs. I was leanin more towards the 18" bar for the shorter one, but my Dealer mentioned a couple guys puttin shorter bars on their 361's and burnin em up. Sounded more like operator error to me, but I don't know.

As for it attaining peak performance after everything seats propperly, I had also read that in the manual. However, it also said not to run it at high RPM's for the first 5 or six tankfulls or so. Is that really a problem? I found it difficult *not* to run it at higher-end RPM's yesterday. It's hard to cut through somethin that's 24" diameter without givin the saw the juice it needs to get it done.

What's your advice on this?
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Old 29th December 2007, 06:51 PM   #66 (permalink)
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Eeeeeeshh.... Husky and Ford. Man, those are two names I do not like. The GF's Ford F250 4WD is a POS. Gets stuck in mud all the time. My Toyota Tundra can run circles around it. As for Husky, I never liked them. I did have a '55 Ford F100 that was nice. But that was the only one I had that I liked.
I don't much care for foreign vehicles.I've had several bad experiances with stihl and only one with husky so I'm sticking with husky.Most of my family likes chevy/honda/buick/pontiac/land rover/bmw.I'm the only ford buff even though I'm eligable for my grandfathersgm discount which is 15% above dealers cost on any new car or truck.I just don't like them.
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