The ms201T just became officialy today the less reliable of my saws. Shitty Mtronic.
Some of the things annoying me : 10 pulls to cold start, lack of power, inconsistant speed, difficult to prime when refuelling... At full throttle in air, to clear the saw dust, I can clearly feel the electronic shifting the setting alternatively between two levels. Baaa booo baaaa booo. There's no reason to do that.
Then this, today I was cutting an overgrown edge of Leylandii, not too big so I wanted to spare time and worked from the ground. For some of the trunks, the idea was to salami cut at 6' high, stuck the spar in the ground and lay the top "gently" against a cherry, where I could cut out a bunch of firewood lengths from the butt to make the top fit in the open area. It worked well for tree trunks (size between 6 to 8" diameter at the cut). But for some reason known only by the Mtronic, the cut turned to shit for two trunks. The cut was going well, slanted underside, then slanted upper side, full throttle, good cutting speed, trunk started to shift, then, when I needed the most the full power to free the butt, the saw went from baaaa to bebebebe ! Of course, the top didn't want to wait that the saw recovered its spirit and crashed in the cherry. Not one, but two. Why ? Is that me, or ...?
New saw, well broken in now, but acting like an old piece of junk, like the previous one for that matter. It's curious, because the Mtronic on the ms661 works good for me..