"easy chain tensioner" systems

[Warbird]

Warbird
Any saw with a dull chain will just "not cut". 

Well, that's true but when it's a dull chain on a crappy saw, it's really bad.  And really dangerous.

Enjoyed the pics, but agree with OWW and we'll push for getting some in your gallery. On this 90+ day, that snow looks very inviting to me. My one stop in Fairbanks a few year back in June, the temp was 98° F.   

I will get some pics moved into the gallery here.  I didn't have time to get them all resized properly.  Fairbanks has a very wide range of temperatures.  We can get into the upper 90's in the summers and the -60's in the winter.  Coldest I've personally seen, ambient (no wind chill), was -64 F.  Let me tell you, when it is -50 or colder, it feels soooooo good to enter a house that's around 80 inside, then go stand right in front of a nice hot wood stove.  Okay...  it feels nice even when it is only -30 outside, but it feels *awesome* when it is super cold. 

When I looked into taking a job there in '79, the reports were dealing with the -50° F, so I decided to keep my family in Wisconsin (they just wouldn't go). 

Can't say that I blame them.  I am starting to think about getting out of Fairbanks.  The cold is one thing but the extended periods of darkness, usually when the cold is most extreme, is what gets to a guy after a while.

[SawTroll]

I prefer the regular system.

So do I, and I believe most people that have used saw more than just occationally......

[SawTroll]

Hi, this is my first post here.  I have a Stihl MS-270c with the "easy system" and I love it.  .....

I actually hate it, but I have only tried it on a couple of 250cs - it doesn't work perfectly (inaccurate), and it discourages proper maintenanse, like flipping the bar, and proper cleaning - the saws I serviced and used a bit showed clear proof of that....
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Into the bargain, it is a "chips collector".......

[dave7191]

 i won't have the new tightener had a polan with it on had it throw the chain cutting a stump off two different times it cut the brake handle in two the last time the saw is still around here some place but i change it over to the old style and it wore the case out so it sits on a shelf some where in the shed

[dakota_dj]

I have a Stihl MS-270C also with the Quick Chain Adjuster on it. I have had no problems with it. I like it a lot. 

[Warbird]

Mine has exhibited no problems either, dakota_dj.  Perhaps on the real big saws it doesn't work well?  Or perhaps the Stihl system just rocks?