Smaller Chainsaw rec?

[otisdog]

I've been fortunate to buy 6 acres in the PNW with a fair amount of Maple and pine that has been neglected for about a decade. I plan to clean it up, remove the snags and down timber, and do a bit of limbing to improve my view of the water. I've got a 28, a 28 super and a good MS361 but I need a smaller saw to round out my options....I'm guessing that I want an older saw in very good condition as opposed to one of the new ones?
Thanks

 

[bertsmobile1]

Unless you are intending jugleing the saws , just get a short bar for the lightest one
A 10 or 12 inch bar will fit on any of them, the only sort of snag is it will be engine heavy so a greater tendency for kick back.

 

[Hammermechanicman]

028 super 50cc class saw
Ms361 60cc class saw

Ms181 30cc class saw
Ms251 45cc class saw

About the only saw smaller than you 028 is the 171 or 181.

 

[StarTech]

What I prefer in a small saw is a top handle version for one hand operation. Basically it would be a trimming saw like the one I use for pruning fruit trees so I can use a ladder and hang on one hand so I don't fall. As I age a gas powered pole saw is becoming more inline with the fruit orchard work as I done had one step ladder to break on me. I was lucky enough to push away as I felled or I would have been impelled by broken leg of the ladder.

 

[Hammermechanicman]

I got tired of standing in the bucket of my bro in law's loader to trim trees and got a Stihl pole saw. It does a great job. A couple drawbacks. A little heavy, my old shoulders would not want to use it all day. Wind direction matters. Get a good pair of wrap around safety glasses. And wear a helmet. The helmet thing is important. Gravity is fast.

 

[StarTech]

I got tired of standing in the bucket of my bro in law's loader to trim trees and got a Stihl pole saw. It does a great job. A couple drawbacks. A little heavy, my old shoulders would not want to use it all day. Wind direction matters. Get a good pair of wrap around safety glasses. And wear a helmet. The helmet thing is important. Gravity is fast.

So you are not as hard headed as a wife and family thinks you are....<lol> Meanwhile I departing to get those 4 bald tire replaced this morning. Borrowing the money to get it done.