I was running this saw for about 2 hours at about a 30-50% duty cycle ru-vid.comUgkxfQm1wmg0ItKDLavxj1nXtQY9HP7EF504 and it did a great job. I used the lever for the built in sharpener to clear chip buildup out more than to actually sharpen the chain. It managed to cut some hardwood stumps much larger than it's size without bothering the neighbors with hours of 2 stroke noise.
Tip for no mess bar oil refill: Save some dish soap bottles, use a funnel to fill them with bar oil at your shop. Makes for a fast / easy / no mess fill on the jobsite. Thanks for the review!! 👍
Just use the Stihl refil Neck. Automatic Stop when you pull of. www.stihl.de/content/dam/stihl/mam/modell-landscape/4a2a6566484a4171aedb3d3cdf0e09a3.jpg.transform/StihlImageGallery-mq1/img.jpg
I just pop a small hole in the foil of the bar oil bottle and it works just like a squirt bottle. :) learned my old man that one, he thought it was clever.
52 year old man giggling like an idiot at the safe starting recap at the end and my wife's just given me the "oh grow up" look.... Again... Haha 😂🤣😂🤣 Never!
The 500i is dope for big changes in operating elevation. I routinely move from 4200' to 8500' and back again day to day. With my other saws it seems like I am always dinking around with carbs. Not much to do on the 500i. It might take a few seconds to figure the mix out once it starts, but it always gets it right (if not a bit rich). The 500i just seems to always idle better with no screwing around. You start it, and it runs until you push the stop button. I feel like if you are working a bunch of elevations, it may be worth a few hundred bucks to not have to mess around: at all. I believe that my 500 always takes 3 pulls to start at the beginning of the day. I assume it is charging the run capacitor that supplies the electronics with power. So it seems like 3 in the morning, then first pull the rest of the day.
Great video, love the channel. Please do a video of the mod process that would be awesome to see. PS. Watching your channel made me upgrade (completely unnecessarily for my purposes btw) to a 362 with a 25” bar, but it’s awesome!
I'm at 37 years and I poured bar oil all over my trucks tailgate last Saturday. It's just something that we never figure out😜 I did ride the short bus to school, hehe
Around minute 20:45: The saw acted weird not because it was cold, but because the MS500i adjusts itself during the first revolutions and determines its idle speed. Because you accelerated from the start, the saw could not determine its idle speed. thanks for the interesting video
As soon as he said that no matter how you break it in, it doesn’t really make a difference i gave this vid a like lol. Ive had the same experience, if the saw is gonna be good, its gonna be good no matter what you do.
im subbed. been subbed. i like to see a mod. never realized these were so light.....my cs590 echo is 17lbs........geee. I love that saw. not really a stihl guy, but i like watching on occassion
Yeah we just tore one completely apart on the bench those kind of easy simple looking at the ports and the timing and everything on it we're going to have a little bit of fun but the way the front ports are rotating off the flywheel it creates like a little up pressure through the transfers for tanks and it doesn't have that bad of a wash across the Piston but it's not washing it all the way off but it looks good looks like fun soon Port work
It's not quite a primer button -- rather than pumping fuel into the carb, it mainly pumps air out of the fuel system. The computer can't calculate for air very well so if you get rid of it it starts predictably. I know that it amounts to the same but the engineering logic is completely different.
It runs well but for $1400 USD it better run like a Swiss watch. He wasn’t purging the air from the system when trying to start it cold.That’s why it was taking more pulls and hesitating when it first started. It doesn’t “prime” the engine with fuel, it pulls fuel through the fuel system and returns it to the tank to remove air and draw in fresh fuel.
This is the way reviews should be done for chainsaw’s! Working it over a good long period of time! I hate reviews where the saw is run for 10 minutes on a few small trees or cutting biscuits and then declaring the saw the greatest thing that ever hit the wood. Excellent job! Real work with experienced operators and getting some experience with the product with many configurations.
A great trick for not spilling bar oil is DONT open the seal. Poke a #2 Phillips screw driver through the seal on the lower edge. You’ll have total control of filling your saw just by squeezing the jug. 👍🏻
Cuz a lot of people's been complaining about the oil hole is smaller than the normal 9/32 so we've been drilling them out and now they work beautiful no more heating up you know.. so now Stihl starting to make the 9/32 hole in the newer bars again soon
I work for USFS fire and we just got a 500i this season. The M-Tronic system is pretty amazing. The saw would run a little rich or lean at first but eventually it would "tach" itself out and the low high would be pretty spot on. I have noticed it will go through gas faster than the 461 and 462. Great saw for work in varying elevations. We run it with a hallow 28" bar and it is a joy to run all day. Great video!
There is no M-Tronic on the MS 500i or TS 480i/500i (they invented the technology). It is real injection. Had one of the 200 pre-production model 5 years ago and run my own for 3 years, now. Greetings from Germany.
As guy who runs a saw 6 hours a day 5 to 6 days a week. I prefer husky. IMHO my 372's and 390's are far easier to work on, their spring mounts are far superior. I like having a saw that I can replace mounts in quite easily with a torque's bit and an allan wrench. If your cutting in a blow down patch or doing a lot of bucking, you're going to break a mount at some point. Most of these new stihl's the mounts are a pain to replace. IMHO the new stihl's fail in comparison to the 0 series stihl's of the 80's and 90's. I'm not saying stihl doesn't make good saws. I'm just saying I'm not sure how confident I would be throwing a long bar on the 500i and packing it into a brushy hole full of blow down.
@Loner Wolf you obviously have not one single clue how that system works. No they don’t have 02 sensor but they do regulate intake air and engine speed. That is how they tune themselves. They regulate engine speed bu adding and pulling fuel. Just like the m tronic system. It’s not just a set rate of fuel, U don’t honestly think that do ya?
Do you have to buy the two in one gas can it’s either by steel or Husqvarna I don’t remember but it’s got the oil on one side of it and the gas mix on the other side it’s all in one can never spell your Bairoil again or using THIS CAN. 👍👍👌👌👀❤️
Its the av dampeners .Over the years the years I have noticed the newer the saw the more likely that the dampers need to be replaced. Usually I on newer saws I have had to replace them twice but I would not be without them because of tendon issues in my fingers, hands and wrists Some I think is carpel tunnel some is arthritis. Without the Av dampers I wouldn't like using saws at all. I think there would be more issues with saws vibrating to pieces as well especially when you get still 136 and huskvarna XP132 both of which I have owned.
Awesome review. Most reviews on RU-vid people use the product for 10 minutes and review it you used this saw for weeks and really put it to the test. Great job
I just had the remnants of the east coast hurricane down a big red oak and block off a road I had to call it in to 911 and didn't get to have any of the volunteers fun clearing the road. I always carry 2 saws with me in my truck an t019 limbing saw and a MS250
OMG! how wrong you are about breaking in a new saw! Geez dude how long have you been cutting?........still kinda seem a bit green in my opinion. To break a saw in with confidence that you are not damaging it is all you need to know and to do that just be sure to let it warm up for at least a good 20 seconds before doing any cutting and rule of thumb is ALWAYS LET A SAW RUN FOR 20 SECONDS to warm up the piston and cylinder because if you don't you will cause "Cold Seizure" to begin it's killing of your saw. Cold seizure happens when you fire the saw up and immediately start cutting with wide open throttle, this in turn heats up the exhaust side of the piston much quicker than the cylinder which expands the piston in that area to the point of causing metal to metal contact. This over time will score the exhaust side of the piston regardless of the quality or quantity of 2 cycle oil you use in your mix so always warm up the saw for at least 20 seconds if not a bit longer on bigger saws. Secondly avoid keeping the throttle wide open on long cuts during the first couple of tank fulls of mix, do some limbing, light bucking but no big long hard cuts, better to vary the load and throttle position on a new saw for at least a tank or two, then your good to go like a bat out of hell! Lol.
Sheesh man, you can voice your opinion without calling Jake’s experience into question or calling him ‘green’. Dick move. Also less caps lock next time, people don’t need shouting at.
I know that it has been awhile, but have you had this one ported and hot rodded yet? Curious how the fuel injection system will respond to modifications.
I have this saw I've been cutting trees for 21 years and its hands down the best saw I've ever owned. It has so much power I highly recommend it I'm gonna buy two more when I get the money
We're waiting for the MS 300i. No it is NOT announced anywhere. And I do not mean the MSA 300 (Akku). If it ever come arround. Weight like 241, ~4 PS. Replace 241 and 261 as pruning saw. Greetings from Germany.
The real issue is that Stihl shut down the factory making the parts for the 500. When it is so relatively new, and they make replacement parts a rarity or even impossibility, it makes the 462 much more desirable. I'm an arborist. They are both easily comparable. I've ran both a fair amount, and I loved every minute of running a 500. I did a 7 acre land clearing job and used the 500 exclusively, but for my personal saw I have to be honest and say that I am leaning towards a 462
@@dieternuetzel3834 During the peak covid pandemic that is what they told me. The tree co. I worked for had a nearly brand new 500 get crushed, and when we wanted replacement parts they were unattainable. Perhaps my info was bad, perhaps it was temporarily shuttered, but a Stihl rep told me personally that that was why parts were so scarce.
Love the wrap handles! It is a pitty that Stihl in all their wisdom don't sell them in Europe among big log dogs.😣 Have to order them overseas. Greetings from Finland.🇫🇮
To fill bar oil without spilling. Poke a small hole in the foil plug under cap on bar oil jug. Step two squeeze jug while aiming into bar oil tank. Step three stop squeezing when tank is full. 👍
in Germany, we pronounce it differently. Steal would be the American accent way to say it. we say it the same but the s sounds like shhhh (like be quiet) so something like shhteeal. just saying.....Very good saw. As far as I know, I would say 90% of all Germans have a stihl. ps: nope not me I watch and I am subscribed.
Love this saw, had it for two years. Using it for milling and dropped a hundred oaks earlier this week. I run RD3 chain on it for milling as I’m dealing with super hard seasoned live oak logs. Had that chain sharpened after a week of milling and then dropped the rakers for logging. Running 25”,28” and 32” bars. Have noticed that if the weather gets hot and the saw is sitting for a while the pressure in gas tank need to be relieved to make starting easier. God I love carbide chain. Thanks for review glad you’re liking the saw.
I just poke a little hole about 1/4" diameter or less in the foil seal on the bar oil jug on the side I pour out of, which is at about 3 o clock if the jug handle is facing you. Squeeze to fill the saw and when you stop squeezing it stops pouring. If you rip the foil off it's gonna be a mess. Thanks as always for your high quality content. :)
