FixitUp Find: Stihl Chain Saws—MS 250 and MS 390

Recent supercells (intense wind and lightning storms) have been dropping old and shallow rooted trees where I live for the past month. I’ve been cleaning up one foot thick hardwood branches and 100+ year old trees, with two rip-roaring saws from Stihl: the MS 250 and the MS 390.

My goal was to see which size worked best for me, and to pick a single saw for all my cutting work (in case you want to skip ahead, the answer is in the last section). The MS 250 is a mid-sized, utility type saw while the MS 390 is a bigger dog more suited for cutting mondo logs and taking stumps flush to the ground. Here’s how they fared.

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