You have to watch when cranking the 250 to make sure you do not flood it. When mine rolls over or yanks back I immediately push it up to half choke and crank it up. It is a good midrange saw. It will easily handle 20 inch logs and anything smaller. The best part is it’s weight or lack thereof.
Cant hook comes in real handy for rolling logs over to finish your cut and avoiding rocking your chain, also pinching chain. Keep up the great work and videos.
Just stumbled across your channel, and from what I've seen if this video, you're pretty good with a saw. I personally don't currently run a saw smaller than the 391, though I have an 028 wood boss. The 028 was given to my grandpa, who gave it to my dad, and now I have it. It's all original mechanically, and I just put a new bar and chain on it last year. That said, it needs carb work finally. My main is a 661, normally with a 25 inch bar and chain, but I also have a 36 for it. So far, I've cut trees up to roughly 30 inches wide, and it hasn't bogged down. My plan is to get a mill attachment for it to cut slabs to help Kickstart my woodworking business.
That’s awesome! We recently just got a 400c with a 25 inch bar and a bark box and it rips! The biggest tree I have personally cut with it was about 4 foot or more across. And I recently cut down a huge oak with it! Thanks for watching !
Awesome video whackin! Cutting like a hot knife though butter.. it’s good to see you cutting my friend.. oh and send me a few of them beautiful cherry logs would ya 🤣👍🏻 keep up the great work buddy
Thanks for watching! We have a lot of big straight cherry trees at my grandpas. Sadly I can’t send you one because they would all be on a mill before they got to yours!😂
Great to see you back at it! Glad you're healing up and feeling better. I have the yellow chain on my ms291, and it cuts great. Keep up the fantastic videos 👍👍💪💪😎🇺🇸!
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@Troy Rodrigo thanks for your reply. I found the site through google and im trying it out now. I see it takes a while so I will reply here later with my results.
Good to see you running a saw again Evan. Saws cutting good! Wish I had about a dozen of those big Cherry logs! You’ve got the neatest wood yard on RU-vid! Take care!👍🏻
@@wva_trucks2336 for cutting firewood honestly I would rather use the 250. The 400 is really fun just because it’s big and will rip through the wood. But to be honest the 250 is better for most of the wood we cut.
I just got one from my neighbor, he said they don't really use it so they gave it to me, I'm taking to the forest service an clean it up, I am gonna put a 20" bar on it.
My new Stihl MS 250 blew through a bunch of two year old 20 inch test logs, yesterday. I was standing in ankle deep sawdust and chips when I got through. It was a little jumpy in spots but nothing I was not able to handle. I will hand file it this morning to put a good edge back on the RS chain. I know that hard hickory dulled it up pretty good.
The reason I went with the 250 is because the 251 only has one bar nut. That was weird to me and I don’t really trust it. I’m sure it will stay on there but it was just weird to be because I’ve never seen that before. Another reason is because the 250 has a quick detach airbox cover and the 251 does not. Hope that helps! The 250 has been an amazing saw!
Yeah it’s a 18 inch bar but I was trying to figure out a way to measure without a stick and from the dogs to the bar tip is exactly 16 inches! Thanks for watching Marc!
Yellow is Rapid Super, known as RS. It is just as aggressive as LGX or EXL Oregon chain. I like RS and it holds its edge real well and lasts a little bit longer than Oregon chains but not commensurate with the additional cost.
@@kostasfrangos3354 mine do, RS Stihl chain. You know the ones with the yellow band on them. It is just the full chisel version of the green chain that comes on them standard.
@@johnclarke6647 yes I know the RS chain from stihl! I use it on my Ms 290! I was surprised that Ms 250 runs a 0,63 gauge bar! my 230 and 250 came with 0,50 gauge bar!
Good running saw,thinkin about gettin one myself. I'd rather have the 261cm, but money wont allow it. My bigger saws are a ms441cm and a ms310. I just need a lighter saw for smaller stuff and limbing. My bigger saws wear me out after an hour or two.
Ended up gettin one last spring and it's been great. I've almost quit using my other saws. I'm cutting up a big red oak with it right now. Its 24-26" in diameter.
I can handle the chain the saw is just to light for that grabby of a chain. You could put a sharp sharp chain on any saw and it will kick like that. On my little saw though it is a quite a bit to handle. But I got used to it after a while.
