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 access the machine to clean the sawdust and the oil from the working parts. The machine is quite heavy and you know you are using it after half an hour. keep it clean and the saw will last for ever. What a wonderful chainsaw... Read review

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

...- the bar oil never runs out before the fuel - which means that it's unlikely to run dry if you always fill 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 the HS 246.... Read review

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Advantages: easy to use and maintain
Disadvantages: none that I know of

...I bought my stihl hedge trimmer 3 years ago second hand, and must say that it out does the rest. With being keen on gardening and running a maintenance business I chose the petrol version. The cutters are very easy to strip down and sharpen when needed and then easy to put back together. They cut any type of hedge with ease as others I find do not cut conifers well. I find the stihl hedge trimmers cut through thickness of up to an inch with no effort at all. I would highly recommend the stihl range to any person setting up or running a maintenance business as it is more reliable then most I have used. I have goto say that stihl out does the rest.... Read review

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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 Stihl, they said two year gurantee on home use, so they spoke to agents. Agents told them I'd used engine oil in my oil tank - I hadn't. Agents told them the saw had been used with the brake on and this had caused the case to melt - they told me above. Bear in mind they'd already charged me nearly £80 for replacing bearing and clutch parts. Stihl eventually picked up saw for checking... Read review

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Advantages: Safety features and cutting strength
Disadvantages:

...This is an all time Chain saw manufacturer!!!! When I worked at Hillcrest Landscapes we only used Stihl due to its reliability and ability to keep on cutting when the other ones fell by the wayside. I only ever did ground work with a stihl but man did it give a nice cut. The chain break always did its job when the saw "kicked back" at me. Otherwise I would have lost at least one arm. I currently have 2 and can be thankful to the safety features on them. Im suprised their hedge cutters and Strimmers have not made it onto the domestic market as they are extremely good too. I expect this is because they are a tad expensive.... Read review

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Advantages: Looks good, easy to use, good value for money
Disadvantages: No disc resume feature

...The first thing you notice with this Toshiba SD-260 DVD Player is that it looks good, it's silver, think and looks modern and stylish. The height is 43.8 mm, width is 421 mm and the depth is 260 mm and it weighs 2.3 kg, which is fairly light. On the front it has a tray on the left, which is hidden and on the right it has 6 buttons - eject, stop, play/pause, fast forward, rewind and power. When the power button is on it lights up blue. In the middle of the player there is an LCD display where the timings and chapters of the DVD are displayed. I decided to buy this DVD Player as it was a Toshiba, who are a respectable electronics manufacturer, so I thought I would be safe buying the product from them, and I have not been dissappointed. I have had this DVD Player for a year now and have had no problems, apart from loosing... Read review

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Advantages: Small, Affordable & Long lasting
Disadvantages: A little muffled, Covers are not removable.

...Creative Sound Blaster 260 Speakers Package Includes: 2 Speakers 9v AC Power Adapter Instruction Manual Features: These speakers are magneticly shielded which means that you can place them as close to your monitor as you like and you will not get any interference from them, They have a 3.5mm stereo headphone socket on the front which makes for easy access, A bright LED on the front to indicate power status, An internal amplifier with front mounted volume control and a built in front bass port for a deeper rich bass sound. My Experience: I have owned these speakers for about 2 and a half years now and they still sound as good as the day i bought them the only problem that i have found with them is that they sound a little muffled whilst listening to films. I originally bought them for an mp3 player... Read review

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Advantages: battery life, reliability, recording features, screen......etc.
Disadvantages: only one disadvantage - no fm radio

...I have had my sandisk sansa e260 for almost 2 years, and I still love it! It is really easy to use, and has proved to be a solid, reliable player; it has never crashed at all unlike friends i-pods. Battery life if very good, as is the sound quality. It also plays back videos very well- which is helped by the size of the screen. The recording feature, through its inbuilt microphone is very handy.-and is much better than can be found on many other items such as mobile phones. Recordings sound clear. The only thing that the player needs is an Fm radio, which wasnt available on the UK version when i bought it. Overall this player has been one of my best purchases, and when (if) it does eventually break, i will definitely replace it with another Sandisk Sansa.... Read review

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Advantages: A very effective tool in the right hands.
Disadvantages: Doesn't bear thinking about. I've seen the results.

...And the first question is, why am I writing this at 4.30 in the morning? Am I up late, or up early? You decide. And the second question is, why do I bother writing in the gardening section at all? After all, despite gardening being the (allegedly) most popular pastime in the UK, my gardening ops attract on average barely 50% of the reads I can elicit on any other subject. But here I go again, because this is what I do and love. I am absolutely delighted there are so few opinions written on chainsaws. Not because that means a greater chance of being read – fat chance. No, rather because chainsaws are not, in my opinion, a valid consumer product. And, yes, this is about Stihl saws. And I will give my opinion on the actual product, which I know well. But later. Firstly, may I just point out that after the motor car... Read review

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Advantages: Compact, powerful, maneuverable, top-handle
Disadvantages: need a certificate of competence to buy

...For some years, I have been the proud owner of a Stihl 039 'Farmboss' chainsaw, and am mightily impressed with its capacity for hard work. However: it's not the friendliest beast to wield when 40 feet up a tree, as it has a 20" bar fitted, it weighs in at over 6 kg, and it needs two hands to operate. Enter the Stihl MS 200 T All the letters and numbers mean something, but the most important one here is the 'T' for top-handled. This means that all the controls can be operated with just your right hand if needed, and when you couple that to the low weight of around 4 kg, including a 12" bar, you end up with a supremely versatile tool for all your elevated tree work. Although compact, so it is less likely to get snagged, it packs a 35 cc engine which produces 2.3 HP - plenty to drive the chain at a very high speed, which results... Read review

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