r/stihl

My latest marketplace find from yesterday. Picked up this km130r for $70 with the description of "stihl trimmer, ran before put away but don't know anything about it". I'm guessing the lady was cleaning out her recently deceased father's house or something based on what all she was selling and not knowing anything about any of it really just wanting it all gone.

Put fuel in it when I got home and gave it a couple pulls and it tried running but not great. Looking like I'll be able to freshen up the carb, adjust the valves, clean it up and have a solid kombi system 130 for less than $100 though which I'm pretty happy about. Feel like I made out like a bandit on this one! What do you guys think? Haven't ever messed with these 4 mix trimmers so I'm excited to play with it since one of these new at $540 is a bit out of my tax bracket lol

Bonus points- got to piss off a guy in a BMW because he thought I shouldn't be taking up a bay with a mower. Took an extra few minutes just for him.

Just picked up two running Stihl 660 magnums for 700 bucks one came with the 28 inch bar ready to cut and the other what’s the power head that starts and runs but it’s missing a muffler screw and the handle is broken. Still an absolute deal for them both. Sold one to my buddy for 350 does he want to rebuild it so essentially I Got a 660 magnum ready to go for 350 bucks. A lot bigger than I need probably gonna try to sell it on eBay. I’ll post my eBay link in my bio if anyone’s interested.

Just picked up an 044 as my first personal saw and im super excited!

I bought a pack of stihl branded 1/8 files for my pole saw and one of them is completely smooth.

Is this a manufacturing error or something I don’t know about?

My 3rd trimmer spool got to this point where holes are exposed and dirt is clogging it.

Design flaw or intentional?

I recently was given an ms 210c, ms170, and ms 310(no bar). So far the 170 and 210c run, but I do not know which I should keep, the 170 is so small and nice for my little truck, but the 210c is Just so easy to start. So for those who have owned and used chainsaws for more than a week, what advice do you have for me? I will sell one or maybe two, so right now out of these two do I keep?

Sharpened 4-5 chains the last 2 days 1 for my ms 250 and 3-4 for my ms 261. Not one will throw good chips . Getting saw dust one won’t even cut butter. I normally do pretty good sharpening. One was good until it dulled out. Yea I check to make sure they were on the right way. What was the worst I was cutting 10 miles from home.
Wood was red oak that was taken down 3 weeks ago. Guy said I could have all of it easy access.

So I bought this safety chain a few months ago, and it’s what I use when I have to cut through really dirty wood or loamy stuff, and it’s on like, it’s 8th sharpen, and I’m debating just throwing it away but I’m now somewhat determined to make it last as long as I can 😂 here’s a before and after. We’ll see how much longer it lasts.

First time working on the carb of my ms170 and now it won’t start it’s worse off than before I did this and can’t figure out what’s wrong with it

Writing because I'm at a loss. I've used this saw multiple times without issue. Last night after about a half hour of use with multiple start and stops, it no longer wanted to engage and would stall out. Engine was plenty warm, fuel and bar oil full. I started it up again this morning with no issues, let it warm up, and the issue is repeating. I havent had this issue with my smaller stihl saws, am I missing something with this big boy? Thanks

My trimmer is getting so hot when I run it that it melts the plastic cover what is causing this and how do I fix it?

What am I having here? Is it even a Stihl?