OT- cahinsaw

[Coyote]

It's not a Suzuki but it is a 2 stroke. I very recently had a 100 foot 200 year old red oak tree cut down in my yard because it died this spring. Something is killing all the older oak trees here. There are 3 more within a block of me that also died this year.
Anyway, the cutters left me lots of the smaller stuff to cut up for firewood. I have an Echo CS-300 chainsaw that I have owned for 5 years or so. It's been a trooper. Even after sitting for more than a year it starts right up. 3 or 4 pulls with the choke on till it fires. Push off choke and fires up ideling.
Today I started to saw through this mountain of wood. Dumped out the old stale gas and mixed up a fresh batch. The saw fired right up as usual. I was about 15 minutes into the job when the revs suddenly peaked like it had run out of gas and the saw died. Added gas - even though it didn't need it and the saw won't run. I can get to fire ocasionally with the choke applied and full throttle but it won't stay running as it dies right away. I yanked till I thought my back was going to dislocate from my body and finally gave up.
Any ideas? Done this far, cleand and gapped spark plug, cleaned air filter and yanked a 100 times with the plug out.

[advant63]

maybe a piece of debris lodged in the fuel pickup. a blade of grass brought down my lawn mower a few summers ago.

[Coyote]

The saw is fixed -- well it was never broken. I hate to tell on myself, but yesterday when it seemed to to run out of fuel, it actually had. Stupid me pulled the cap and added more. Problem was I added it to the oil tank. Meantime the gas tank is still bone dry. I realized the error this morning. Dumped the oil gas mixture out of the oil tank an filled it with chain oil. Put gas (premix)where it belonged and it fired right up. Ran for us all day and the job is done. So it is one big DUH on my part.
If you are ever in the market for a chainsaw, don't overlook Echo. It's a dynamite little saw.

If you don't believe the tree was big, that's a 12oz. Sprite can sitting on whats left of it.


The completed job.


The saw. One tough little dude. 14"bar.

[markj]

That's an easy mistake to make. It's always nice when your problem is nothing serious. That is a big tree. I have a Husky and it's been doing a lot of work this year too. Cuting and splitting wood is great exercise. Sometimes I think I'll wear out before my saw does.

[tz375]

So we are not supposed to put fuel in the "710" cap

[johnakay]

that'll make a good barby table that
by the way Chris got my bits and once again thanks to you and your lad.