Stihl MS 260 > Reviews

Advantages: Light weight, easy to clean, good power
Disadvantages: Pricey (but most good things are!)

...both. Specs are available on any Stihl website and my dealer (who uses a 260C as well) says it will handle a 20" bar with ease. WOW! I found an HS 246 hedge trimmer attachment second hand for this saw and now I have a killer hedge trimmer as well! 150 meters of overgrown macrocarpa hedge from ground to as high as I could reach (about 10 feet!) in under an hour! If you have this saw or buy this saw and need to do serious hedge trimming, look into ... Read review

Advantages: none
Disadvantages: no customer service at all if things go wrong

I'd never buy another Stihl anything again after the way I've been treated. Very Briefly. Bought a chainsaw in 2005. Used it sparingly for domestic use cutting a few branches for my log fires. It broke. Wouldn't oil the chain. Was told by service agents that a bearing had broken and this had hit the casing, cracking it, causing oil to flow out and not into lubricating the chain. Cost as much to replace casing as buy new one. I phoned ... Read review

Advantages: powerful and middle range good for the £
Disadvantages: heavy

The Stihl MS 260 is the second chainsaw that i have bought. The reasion that I bought it was a combination of power and money, It is a powerful 50cc machine that has dealt with everything that i have pointed it at. I found it hard to start the first time, so ask your supplier how to start it as i did not and made a fool out of myself. The maintenance side of the machine is very easybasically undo the two nut and the tension screw and you can easily ... Read review