question on 361 & 362

[STIHLFULLSKIP]

I do not understand this myth about the PNW only having balsa wood. I have oak, apple, madrone, elm, maple and a lot of other hardwood species here, along with a lot of Doug fir. I have about 4 cords of hardwood rounds that could use carving up, actually. We also have some maples that need falling and bucking up too. Lots of wood to cut here.

Anyone wants to come by and show me how much better the 362 is over the 361 is welcome here any time. I will even provide the beer. I have lots of long bars and loops here to put on them. Better hurry though, my last stock 361 is gonna get opened up and ported real soon. I am working on a full port design to replace my DP 044 with a fully woods ported and turned down 361. I want a light high power saw with really good AV. A 30% gain should give me 5.75 HP, which is more than within typical woods porting gains. Then I will throw in a 460 HO oiler kit and be able to run 28 an 32 inch bars on it. It will suck gas and sling oil, and the EPA can... well, never mind.

I also have a line on about dozen more new 361s if anyone is interested in one of these tired old dinosaurs.

would you be interrested in building a new 361/362 and selling it? as i have yet to own a modded saw.do you think a 5.75hp 361 will still be reliable? alot of people believe modded saws last longer because the breathe better,and run cooler.what is you take on this?

[ladylake]

It depend what you doing, when going out in the woods sawing up dead trees as they lay or fall being a old fart I use my light 50cc saws that I can run all day about 90% of the time. They don't cut that much slower than my 70cc saws which wear me out in a couple of hours. If I was at a landing blocking up big wood then it would be a 70 to 90cc saw. Most of these saws with equal cc's that are well tuned are so close in cutting speed to each other that it doesn't matter.   Steve