Stihl MS 271 Chainsaw! Why Won't My Chainsaw Start ?! Bad Gas? Let's Find Out! 

Those in-flight moving patterns in a flock of birds are called murmurations. Thanks for including, that was great.

Bad fuel is always a big part of faulty startup. Watching you clean the bar out was oddly satisfying 😂. Great job

Loved the kitty guarding the door!🐈

You have taught me much about diagnosing saw problems. I appreciate it!

4.30AM starts and you still have time to set up cameras and make videos for us? I wish I looked as bright eyed at 4.30am! 😂 Thx so much for all your work to help us amateurs. Hopefully everyone who watches and gets help from the videos hits subscribe, so you can quickly get to up 100k + subscribers and make some coffee money from RU-vid for all your trouble!

I cant get over how gorgeous your landscape is there. It just gives such a relaxed feel I bet. Great job on diagnosis on the saw too 👍🏼😊

Life is good, get up this morning and I get your video to watch.😀 Love your scenery. Thank so much Erica.

Hiya, great video thanks.I didn't know that about the chain bar.Do you know what kind of birds were in those trees? 🙂

Another case closed 😊👍 Grew up in “ the sticks” when I was young but moved to big city. The view of the countryside at the beginning had me reminiscing.

Another great video, thanks! If you have a saw come in that has a worn rim im curious to see how much ware on the rim to consider it time to replace? Thanks again!

Great job and thanks for sharing. I would have flipped the bar since I had it off for even wear.

When u started to pull the bar on the workbench to make the sprocket working again, u make me laugh🤣🤣

Always here in Maine, U.S. I mix non ethanol in all saws ( Stihl & Husky ), DR brush Mower, snowblower, Honda ATV. It has been well worth the extra money. Less problems even with months storage. Sad that Canada will not allow non ethananol. Good tutorials Erica...thx.

Your hubby has a fabulous collection, I'm envious!😅😅

I’ve learned my lesson on lending out,my saw came back seized.learned a lot from your channel.wow on the sound of all those birds awesome and cheers.

Hi married with small engine you keep doing these you video you teach me a lot from you donny and grease shop rag and chickcanic all do a very good job at helping me do so let problem that I may have ok cheers Garry from Australia

Awesome video, great work. Thank you

I run across a bar and chain that was gummed up with pitch so much that the chain was like it was glued into the rails, well it was glued in. Warmed it up with the heat gun till it let loose. Then soaked in gas until it was clean.

They bought a lot of saw for occasional use. I have a few acres with trees and about 10 or 12 years ago my dealer paired me with an ms250 w/ 20 inch bar. I run 4 or 5 tanks of gas through it every year and it still starts right up and cuts like crazy.

I like your walkarounds. Your husband has bukoo good stuff. 👍

Thanks for the video

Jon, I've used hoists like that hundreds of times and have always wondered what they looked like inside. This video showed me alot. I never thought there were that many parts. Nice restoration! Right on Jon!! 👏📽🇺🇸

This type of user should rather use a battery-powered saw.

I run Echo Red Armor in all my saws regardless of brand.....and I have at least one each from the big 3. Never had an issue.

When your husband runs out to the hord (a fairly neat one I might add) and brings back a 300 dollar part you think OK. Great video

Do you rebuild, replace top ends, any vids?

In UK one cannot get Ethanol free fuel (gas) so I use 5% Ethanol fuel and add Ethanol Shield mixed with Stihl HP Super 2 stroke oil, and never have a problem, at the moment I’m currently using fuel purchased in February 2024 mixed then, and I have no starting issues at all. In fact Stihl blower has older fuel from last year left in the tank and it started second pull and ran no problem at all. In UK we have extremely wet humid climate and the Ethanol Shield looks after my 2 strokes.

I learned the lesson of not loaning your chainsaw to someone. A few months ago my uncle had a tree fall down in his yard during a storm. I thought he knew how to run a chainsaw, but I was wrong. I knew something was wrong when I got the chainsaw back. Part of the bar had turned blue, do to over heating. When I took the chainsaw bar off, I noticed there was some melted plastic around the sprocket... needless to say not going to let that happen again..

Hello Always the same Story. Old Gas in it, and nobody knows something. Good that you check it first. In Germany nearly all Peoble use Premixed Fuel, as Aspen2T or Stihl Motomix ore somthing else. We dont have Bad Quality Fuel here. For all the Comercial Guys it is not allowed to use selfmixed Fuel you have to use Alkyladfuel. The Laws says you have to protect your Employes Health, thats a good thing. Thank you for the Video and Greetings from Germany.

If there is premix fuel thats yellow, thats a dumb idea. Gasoline yellows as it ages or goes bad. Usually premix is blue or pink, depending if its 50 or 40 to 1 mix. But of course its terribly expensive, approx $10-$12 per liter/quart here in Canadaland. But the metal premix container is great for carrying your own premix, even fits inside some chainsaw cases with the saw. Stay gold.

The birds in the trees sounded like blackbirds. We had them here like that in Milton PA just last week. I think they do that prior to migrating? Nice job in the saw. Id like to have seen the issues with the other ones in the lineup.

A Murder Of Crows In Those Trees Erica 😮😮 Beautiful Land And Shop You Guys Have Thanks For a Great Job Deducing That’s Saws Ailments 😀😊 Greetings From Florida USA

Love the video content, you got my 👍”s Up. Keep it coming, large support to Canadian businesses!!!

This is why I decided to go with a battery electric saw when I needed one to clean up after a storm. I knew I wouldn't using it "all the time". I knew I'd be getting a saw with a narrower chain, and I was, and am totally ok with that.

You're really starting to get some subscribers now 😍 keep up the amazing work

just use Stihl motomix ... home owners mixed fuels...hmmmm!

Down here in the states gasoline is considered good for 30 days before it starts going bad. I mix my own fuel ,for my Echo chainsaw’s, I use red armor and my Stihl saws get Stihl oil.

I use 1oz sea foam per gallon of fuel whether I'm going to use it now or later. Also, Appreciate the fact that you stay with talking points relative to the task at hand which makes the presentation easier to learn from. 🍻

Thanks!

Hi Erica 🖐 Really enjoyed your video 👍

Do you ever put fuel directly into the carb to get the old crap out of the system fast?

Spark plug very fouled... You should see my spark plugs with my mix with Castrol POWER1 RACING 2T... Perfectly clean, light grey, you would think the engine overheated, but actually runs absolutely perfect...

When you took the fuel cap off I heard a "pft" sound. Does the fuel tank build up pressure ?

Another happy saw out the door. One can only hope it stays that way.

I had to learn the hard way about lending tools out. But no more!

Nice intro! Be organized is less stress….😅

Good morning my friend nice video 😎

I want to be that helpful friend who lends out things to others, however experience has taught me not to.

Well, me collecting lawnmowers wouldn't go very well. Our garden is just big enough for maybe two? And also my wife would kill me, but find no spot to bury in the garden anymore because of the two mowers 🤣

Looks like somebody was cutting railroad ties with it

Not sure what it is with stihl saws but im a mechanic at a shop near me in nova scotia Canada and whenever I look in the cylinder vs a husky the stihl bores always look spotty in a way if you know what I mean never really see much cross hatching and just has a funny looking spotty aspect to it. Where as a husky even if its had some time it just looks like a clean smooth surface with some hatching still left. So I dont really care for the way there plating is on there saws. But then again I've never been a fan of stihl in general im a husky die hard

"Fuel is not a collector's item". I might borrow that if you don't mind.

4:30 am! Do you sleep! Make hay while the sun shines!

Hi, I hope you don't mind me asking, what fuel mix do you use? Regards from New Zealand

What is your fuel mix? Love the video!

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In Deutschland sind die Schienen auch oft verharzt, auskratzen und ein Spritzer WD40 auf den Stern helfen gut. Ein Sieb im Auspuff gibt es hier zum Glück nicht. Bei uns darf man im Wald nur noch synthetische Kraftstoff und Bioöl die Säge betreiben, Stihl Motomix hält dafür 5 Jahre und ist nicht mehr Krebserregend und richt nicht mehr so stark beim verbrennen. Danke für Dein Video und Deine guten Erklärungen 👍. Schönes Wochenende!

What fuel do you recommend?

I sometimes wish I had OCD

You definitely have a lot of mower parts plus a lot of chain saws to work on echo does make a mixed fuel in a can

I thought before you started on the saw that it would have been straight gassed. Much better it was bad gas. Onto the next one

20:40 what the flock

Excatley why i dont load any of my small engine equipment out

I suspect the premix fuel, was the brand tru-fuel

Looks like something out of a toilet bowl... XD

Echo has "RED" ARMOR.

I have 291.Starts easy

This first thing I do is remove them from my saws

Starlings... propane canons work.

So the moral to the saw is , you don't lend out your shoes or your saw to anybody. 😮😮😊

Hoarder ? That there is money in the bank 😂. And you don’t have to wait for delivery 😂

Today's lesson: Don't let your chainsaws sit idle for too long.

At lease you don't live with 2 very messy packets

Any saw that doesn't have a decompression valve on it, is 💩 The 271 is a real bear to start. Secondly, I feel that many saws, including this one, do not oil the bar as much as they should.

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This is why you never loan saws. I only run premix fuel for a good reason. Battery or corded chainsaws are good for light use users.

I have a rule Never lend a Chainsaw to anyone because they could either seriously injure themselves or others and they could put anything in the fuel tank a friend of mine lent his chainsaw to a friend of his and the idiot put paint thinners in the fuel tank a seized up the saw he came to me to see if it could be fixed he said his friend left it back and told him if worked fine well he's not a friend of his know he brought him to court for damaging his saw he got a new chainsaw it was the next size up and i got him a new cylinder and piston for the one that was damaged he said NOW i know WHY you don't lend anyone tools

Spark arrestor is nonexistant in Europe..

Classic case of a part timer using a grunty saw once in a blue moon. Forget the ICE motor, get a battery Stihl. They’re awesome.

ms271 is not M-tronic?

Never lend your tools to neighbours or Friends…. I learned the hard way….. Would you loan your wife to, come on people have some common sense!!!! 🤔

Did you have your coffee?

It probably was tru-feul

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