As a 10 year user and abuser of a lovely German made MS660....I gotta say, that thing really stayed on the pipe lovely and was screaming. The exhaust had a deeper note to it as well. I fucking love 660s...even my mostly stock pig has been mainly on a 25" Stihl Rollomatic .375" for regular duty and I have a .404" sprocket and 36" bar when things get stupid. I have probably ran over 150 tanks of fuel through this thirsty girl and the only money Ive ever had to spend on it was for the .404 sprocket, a handful of new starter ropes and a couple non Stihl so no Elastostart sadly starter handles. im lazy and dont use the decomp valve very much. Still, its my flush cut machine for any big wood jobs and I cant even tell you how many times its gone WAY up in the air with me on my hip. Its a little heavier than my 200T that normally sits there....lol. I actually will never climb with it, i will send it up the rope when I get my ass where I need it, and then I have a similar setup to my 200T with a close hanger and a break away that retracts to about 2 feet when youre not pulling on it. the only difference is, I ALWAYS leave some suckers a few inches long to hang it from....its a great saw to come down a monster stem and I am the step cut freak....put a rope on it, make a crash pad from the rest of the tree that looks like a square lincoln log cabin with some nice damping in the middle. Take em in 600-1000 pound chunks depending on how much room there is and how high its falling. The beauty of step cuts is slow motion, and control. you get the rope tied with a running bowline, and add the half hitch if it needs to be hung.....preferably from anything other than itself. I fucking hate negative blocking big wood, even though I got an absolute pro on the rope, a huge ass CMI block on a Loopie sling and a Buckingham Port-a-wrap on a 3/4 Tenex Whoopie....with the smoothest roper i have ever seen....and shes a chick!!! This girl can let 1000 pounds run like it just robbed a bank and then come to the smoothest slow down and stop over a 30' drop. She is a rigging dream on the ground, and she runs 460s and 660s like she was born with it in her hand....she cant run my ported and polished 200T though....she said it doesnt like her. I say that saw is a bit tempermental and you gotta know when to squeeze the throttle and when to back off. My 200T is INSANE though, ive had more customers gimme props on that than any of the 60s...260, 360, 460, 660....they hear my 200T in the morning and it is so damn quick on the revs....and its LOUD. I have had two other 200Ts and a 201 that didnt last a month before i threw it out of a huge sugar maple. It was brand new, and its still sitting in my basement looking like it fell 50 feet. The only saw that has ever taken the plunge in 800+ jobs. Stick with the ones that end in zero or the ones that start in zero. MS660 or 066. MS460 or 046. MS200t or 020T....screw all this new CARB compliant eco friendly shit. Before I climbed my all time favorite saw was an 044 with a 28" bar on it.....that was my baby until some douchebag put regular gas in it and blew it the fuck up. Idiot. Its a two stroke ya fucking mook!!!! I buy German old school Stihl they are big and loud and heavy and rev FAST and get your ass home early. Ohh, and treat em right and they will literally last a lifetime while going to work every day. There aint nothing like 90s and early 2K Stihl saws....get em while you still can. Trust me here, ive cut thousands of trees. Buy chains too...dont skimp out on a thousand dollar job...buy a new chain for your big saw and learn to keep your climbing saw filed. there is way too much crap near the groubd to be filing 36" bars....just slap a new one on and save the old one. when you get a dozen of em, use your bench mounted sharpener....and I have had 3 sharpeners, Harbor Freight was my first, then two expensive ones. With some p[ractice the Harbor Freight sharpener was the best without a doubt. I think i spent like $25 on it with a coupon...been going for years. Turn the bar oil wide open, keep the air filter clean, dont let em run too lean, and use your ears to hear any issues. in a dozen years of using all pro Stihl saws, besides chains....I have spent maybe $100 in parts and I fix em at home.
As a 10 year user and abuser of a lovely German made MS660....I gotta say, that thing really stayed on the pipe lovely and was screaming. The exhaust had a deeper note to it as well. I fucking love 660s...even my mostly stock pig has been mainly on a 25" Stihl Rollomatic .375" for regular duty and I have a .404" sprocket and 36" bar when things get stupid. I have probably ran over 150 tanks of fuel through this thirsty girl and the only money Ive ever had to spend on it was for the .404 sprocket, a handful of new starter ropes and a couple non Stihl so no Elastostart sadly starter handles. im lazy and dont use the decomp valve very much. Still, its my flush cut machine for any big wood jobs and I cant even tell you how many times its gone WAY up in the air with me on my hip. Its a little heavier than my 200T that normally sits there....lol. I actually will never climb with it, i will send it up the rope when I get my ass where I need it, and then I have a similar setup to my 200T with a close hanger and a break away that retracts to about 2 feet when youre not pulling on it. the only difference is, I ALWAYS leave some suckers a few inches long to hang it from....its a great saw to come down a monster stem and I am the step cut freak....put a rope on it, make a crash pad from the rest of the tree that looks like a square lincoln log cabin with some nice damping in the middle. Take em in 600-1000 pound chunks depending on how much room there is and how high its falling. The beauty of step cuts is slow motion, and control. you get the rope tied with a running bowline, and add the half hitch if it needs to be hung.....preferably from anything other than itself. I fucking hate negative blocking big wood, even though I got an absolute pro on the rope, a huge ass CMI block on a Loopie sling and a Buckingham Port-a-wrap on a 3/4 Tenex Whoopie....with the smoothest roper i have ever seen....and shes a chick!!! This girl can let 1000 pounds run like it just robbed a bank and then come to the smoothest slow down and stop over a 30' drop. She is a rigging dream on the ground, and she runs 460s and 660s like she was born with it in her hand....she cant run my ported and polished 200T though....she said it doesnt like her. I say that saw is a bit tempermental and you gotta know when to squeeze the throttle and when to back off. My 200T is INSANE though, ive had more customers gimme props on that than any of the 60s...260, 360, 460, 660....they hear my 200T in the morning and it is so damn quick on the revs....and its LOUD. I have had two other 200Ts and a 201 that didnt last a month before i threw it out of a huge sugar maple. It was brand new, and its still sitting in my basement looking like it fell 50 feet. The only saw that has ever taken the plunge in 800+ jobs. Stick with the ones that end in zero or the ones that start in zero. MS660 or 066. MS460 or 046. MS200t or 020T....screw all this new CARB compliant eco friendly shit. Before I climbed my all time favorite saw was an 044 with a 28" bar on it.....that was my baby until some douchebag put regular gas in it and blew it the fuck up. Idiot. Its a two stroke ya fucking mook!!!!
I buy German old school Stihl they are big and loud and heavy and rev FAST and get your ass home early. Ohh, and treat em right and they will literally last a lifetime while going to work every day. There aint nothing like 90s and early 2K Stihl saws....get em while you still can. Trust me here, ive cut thousands of trees. Buy chains too...dont skimp out on a thousand dollar job...buy a new chain for your big saw and learn to keep your climbing saw filed. there is way too much crap near the groubd to be filing 36" bars....just slap a new one on and save the old one. when you get a dozen of em, use your bench mounted sharpener....and I have had 3 sharpeners, Harbor Freight was my first, then two expensive ones. With some p[ractice the Harbor Freight sharpener was the best without a doubt. I think i spent like $25 on it with a coupon...been going for years. Turn the bar oil wide open, keep the air filter clean, dont let em run too lean, and use your ears to hear any issues. in a dozen years of using all pro Stihl saws, besides chains....I have spent maybe $100 in parts and I fix em at home.
It turns over 11K in the cut. I still have a couple more of these cylinders so if you need a new top end I have them listed on ebay.