My fs130r has been having cold start issue. I notice a small pool of fuel mix out the bottom left port and filter saturated which is why in guessing it doesnt start normal. Any idea why the fuel is clogging the filter. Carburetor was replaced in the spring along with fuel filter/ air filter and spark plug.

I am the conservation manager at a wildlife sanctuary and broke 2 makita weedwhackers this season trying to get through invasive plants intertwined with grape in our meadows (our brush hog doesn't have an adjustable blade height and I have endangered turtles in the meadows that I'm trying to keep out of harms way). I need a tool that will allow me to cover a lot of ground in a short amount of time. I lean towards battery powered but can be convinced to get gas powered

any recommendations?

Until today

New bar day!

I scored this 47” duromatic today for $223.
The guy was asking $250, and $223 was all I had 😂

Brand new in box!

Now I just need to order a normal chain and a rip chain for it!

Looking for an AV buffer for my wrap handle MS362, can't seem to find what I need.

Anyone want to buy a centennial edition? I see them going on ebay for 5500-6000… i would take less than that. i thought it would be a cool wall piece but have ran into issues with my truck and need the money.

Hi I have a M182 chain bar says 3/8P. Chain is marked with 6
Number 6 which correlates with 3/8 picco
Stihl says to use a 5/32 file but it seems too big, it seems like im filling the joint link

Over the last few years we have slowly migrated to many of the pro battery tools that Stihl offers. We have yet to be disappointed.

Not sure what the occasion is, but a shout out and a thank you to Stihl for the surprise gift. This showed up in the mail today and we can always use batteries.

Maybe Stihl is cleaning out the old batteries because of the new line, which we will will certainly invest in too.

Thank you Stihl.

Gave my oldest brother my 10 year old Stihl FSA 56 weedeater and picked up a new Stihl FSA 60 R on sale for $249.99 big difference in power and cutting

I discovered this morning that at some time in the past the chain has eaten a part of the engine housing on my MS251C saw. It's the part of the housing which is where the oil is guided into the hole in the bar. It's not totally dead yet and hopefully I have epoxy glued the appropriate bit up again and it will live a bit longer. But I got me interested in just how much of the saw is effected, which turns out is a LARGE part of it.

Which TBH I consider a design flaw. Surely the parts the chain can chew on should be “sacrificial' rather than being the main body of the saw? Cheap and easy to replace. Not a “that's just written off the whole saw“ part as it will inevitably get chewed up given enough time?

The parts diagram for those saws listed 3 possible part numbers

1143 020 3023

1143 020 3025

1143 020 3027

So far I havent found anything explaining the difference, other than possibly chain catchers? Does anyone know what the differences are and how you can tell which one you need, if I ever decide to replace it. Pages from the parts catalogue included.

A customer brought this in for repairs, but our head tech in London helped find the parts breakdown for it. So, we had to order the tension springs for the pawls on the pull cord. Honestly, this thing runs better than any MS500I that I’ve worked on, and it’s over 20 years old. It’s beautiful.

Not the usual content I’m sure. But I had a stihl ms180 that I bought with a holed piston. It’s now running with a Amazon special engine (doing surprisingly well) and I’ve found a use for the old crank and piston assembly! Still need to route the edges, sand and oil up the base but happy with the proof of concept!

Démarrage après nettoyage et réglage carbu ( réglage trop riche ) si vous avez des conseils je suis preneur

I have a blower I bought for $25. Trying to get it up and running. Bogging down on full throttle but idles pretty nice. Also super hard to get it running. 20ish pulls. Any ideas on fixing helps out a lot. Replacing the carb? Just a carb tune? Or something completely different. Thanks in advance

First picture is TDC, Second picture is where the timing light is showing the timing at. I have a no start condition with spark and compression on a saw I stole and suspect this is WAY too advanced of timing but I'm really too new school for this type of thing. Can anyone tell me more? Maybe it is correct... Maybe it isn't and needs adjusted somehow. It is definitely the oldest saw I have worked on and I can see why people treasure these, I don't think I've seen a plastic part on it. Got it for $25, so I'm good there. Idk, what do you guys who know more think? Anyone have a service manual?

I being impatient went to install the deflector back on my fs561 after string trimming for several weeks with it. I neglected to clean the gear head or the third blind hole for the deflector that had collected a heavy layer of rosin from cutting grass and brush. The front two screws are through holes so didn’t collect as much material and went in fine. As I went to put the rear one in it started easy enough but got difficult to turn after 3/4 of the way in. Being the corn fed redneck I am I sent her home till I did one to many turns and all the treads popped in the gear box housing.

Currently it will take a screw and will get tight the pop loose but I don’t want to lock tight or jb weld the screw in permanently because I change heads and blades quite often. As I see it my options are try to run a tap on it and hope for the best. Try to drill out the hole and put a Helicoil but that sounds risky for structural integrity of the gearbox under heavy loads or am I forced to buy a new gear head. I’m pretty experienced with working with steel and some cast iron with tapping holes and fixing threads but not quite sure what the gear head is made out of.

Any help would be nice. Also if anyone is considering getting a 561 over any other Stihl brush cutter for heavy duty mowing and clearing just make the jump up you will not regret it. This thing is an absolute animal it will shred or fell just about anything you put in front of it with ease. Weight is subjective when you have a smile on your face.

Second time the strap hook on the backplate of my Stihl SR blower broke. I had one break on my sr200 and my sr400. I'm not sure how they're breaking to be honest, I just pick them up out of my truck (very tightly secured) and they're broken, haha.

I do have replacement backplates, but I really don't feel like asking my manager for another backplate again (LOL).

My understanding is that it's made of HDPE and doesn't really respond well to any adhesives, but any ideas are welcome. Thanks!