Bought a couple of them and they seem to run pretty good , got 20 inch bar setups on them . They are not wild as the first 562 cause of the lower compression but have not had a single issue with the autotune , zero hot start problems . Dealer is to get a couple 562 xpgs in hopefully tomorrow so see how the heated handles work on them as my other older 562 xpg has most likely the best heated handles out there
I bought one this fall, just because I liked my other 562 so much. The size, weight and power of the 562's just fall in the sweet spot for me. Sold off the two Stihls I had acquired, a 261cm and a 500i. I liked the saws, but one was a little too small, and the other a little too big for 95% of what I do.
Maybe it's just in my head, but I like the feel of the Huskies better, too. I'm sure part of it is they are what I grew up with, but they feel like they are a little more precise in the hands. I don't know what it is🤷
some how my chain brake handle cracked on the new 562 today , maybe riding in the skidder . Well I had a old 562 handle with me , they are not the same but abit grinding on old handle and she worked rest of the day . Dealer says he has some
no xpg's yet so maybe tomorrow , I know my hands are sure plenty cold enough without the heated handles , cut a fair bit of timber now with these little saw and its stock so far , if you keep the chain razor sharp they get along pretty good as I'm cutting mostly hard and soft maple , saw could use abit more torque but we will see once I play with it abit
Been running the heated 562 xpg and it's seems ok. Handles are nice and warm
I really like mine Ed. The handles get very toasty!
I could of saved you the trip and brought it here, I donot live very far from you. I ordered a bunch of .050 bars from them as well .
Probably a little early to ask this question Ed, but how would you compare the M2 to the original 562? I've only played with mine so far, certainly not enough to be doing reviews on it yet. But I do like it. ffsmiley
Yes I should've asked you first. Let me know when you're going again :thumbsup:
When was the cutover date to the MK2's? Bob was that 562 I bought from you a mark 2 (around jan '23 I think?). I jsut know I love mine, but I haven't been into any wood that really needs it lately, mostly been doing firewood bucking on under 16" stuff and sawmill work lately.
Spike , the old 562 seems stronger and alot snapper than the mark 11 but the mark 11 runs way better , mark 11 has lot less compression but cuts good , less compression means less heat in the cylinder
Thanks Ed.......
Tom, you have the M1. M2 was released after we retired in Dec 22. 2 years already :huh?
So far the mark 11 has not missed a beat of any kind, I hate a saw that won't stay in tune . Now we got some cold weather here so will see how they behave in that , the xp seems abit different than the xpg on tuning , the xpg is a touch richer but that could be because the carb system is being heated . I will try turning the heated off and see if it runs the same as the xp , Pete says the same thing with the 2 he has .
Terry I will be going back up fairly soon, I ordered a bunch of .050 gauge bars as Im sitting with I'm sure 100 plus new .050 chains .
The new husky dealer to me seems pretty good , I broke the chain break handle and it was my fault but the dealer just gave me a new handle , I seem how I think I broke it now , doing the notch the notch flies back and hit the handle
the balance on the new saws seems good , I can run the normal bar and it sits flat in your hand when you carry it . This may not mean much to most but it means alot to me as I hate a bar nose heavy saw for carrying in the bush and what is also means is I do not have to buy the stihl light weight bars now at $200 plus a piece . I can use the husky bar at $85 a piece
Today was not real cold, tomorrow will be , today with the heated handles on and cutting bigger timber you could feel or hear a little bog , most people would not but I listen to my saws all the time, I turn the heated off and once carb cools down the bog is gone so its from heat , will try it again tomorrow and if the bog comes back I will do what we did to every xpg we ever owned
What is that?
So won't the auto-tune on the 562XP MII eventually compensate for the heated card and tune to accommodate that? I would expect a slight loss of power, even if tuned perfectly, since hot air is less dense than cold. However, I would hope that eventually the mixture would correct to get the most out of the air available.
(We see that effect in carbureted piston aircraft: turn on the carb heat, and the engine runs richer and loses a bit of power. Adjust the mixture, and you get SOME of that power back again.)
the carb is heated on a heated handle saw and what happens in the saw heats the carb to much and gets the carb so hot it boils the fuel , the old 371 xpg was bad for this and boiling gas in a lot of cases ended up blowing up, there is a piece that bolts to the carb that heats up and once up to temp its to shut off until the carb needs heat again but in a lot of cases it does not shut off , Lots of dealerships up north never lets a new xpg out the door with the heated carb still hooked up , in truth the only time I see a need for heated carb is when your falling timber in 4 feet plus of snow cause the saw never gets out of the snow , saws like the stihl 660 or even the 500i with the filter system would never make 30 seconds in that amount of snow , saws like the 066/660 you switch the air filter system to the old 064 design and stihl made a winter kit for that saw, in stock form the air filter fills full of snow and chokes the engine out of air
Ed on my 371xpg there is a three position switch for the heater. Position 0 heat is off, position 1 is heat on for handles and position 2 is heat to handles and carb.(according to the owners manual) I certainly hope this is the case because I'm running it in position 1🤷🏻�♂️
yes but lots of the older xpgs the carb heater never shut off , lots and I mean lots of the dealers up north got out the old wire snippers before any xpg every left the shop lol, saws ran fine after that
This sure is the right week to be talking heated handles, ain't it? -3 outside this morning.
The thermostatic control is not the best idea for the carb. Like Ed says, not really needed unless in powdery snow. 3 position switch like Tjsal has is best. Some early heated saws only had heat to the handles anyway. Some, like a Jonserd 920V did have a 3 position switch. However it had a hi and lo setting for handle heat, like the heated seats in my truck. That was a good idea that should have stuck around, as some saws will heat up too much in big wood and you end up turning them on and off.
Saws used to have 2 heating elements in the rear handle; one for each side. Newer saws like the 562, only have one on the right side. Nice on your palm, but your finger tips wrap around to the left side. And it's the finger tips that go numb 1st.
Ya i say my old ported 562 handles are hotter than the new mark 11. The old 357 snow pro handles would get so hot it would melt the handles on fuel tank . Seem a couple burn to the ground but the handles were hot lol
But I also found any ported saw with heated handles were always hotter than stock. Guess is because of the higher rpms in the wood makes the coil produce more energy
first thing this morning the xpg didnot seem to like these cold temps , I'm pretty close to Lake Erie so a lot of moister in the air and it is cold . Coldest I have seen here in years . Once things warmed up abit it seemed ok
What happened Ed did you get soft in the south? No more cutting in a T-shirt at -20 on Eagle Lake?
So near Lake Erie, near Simcoe, mother in laws family from there.
Any of you 562 users ever taken one to the dealer for updates?
All the 562's I bought were hooked up and check before they left the dealer
You may say I'm softer in my old age or maybe I'm not as stupid as in my younger years plus I'm alot lighter in weight , I'm 60 to 70 pounds lighter than 20 years ago so lost a lot of muscle so I do feel the cold a lot more
I asked my local saw dealer today about a 562XPG, was told for now he can not get the 550 or the 562. He thought by March he would have some. They have been on order. He had no heated saws at all. I suspect I wont need the heated grips till next winter anyways. But as I get older I now like to run the saw with the heated grips. I never thought I would need them, but things are changing. Only saw I have with heated handles is an old 154SG. Definitely keeps the fingers from getting numb.
Same for me Dave. At 1st, heated grips were more of a rarity/novelty. But the last couple of years, I stick to running my heated models in the winter months. I'm fortunate to have accumulated a few of them over the years in different sizes. Have a 154SG, like you. Others are 242, 550, 262, 560, 2163, 2156, 670, 372. Pretty much covers all the bases for me. Working on restoring a 920V. But in addition to the usual rebuild stuff, there are several more hurdles with wires and beat up heat wrap on the top handle. But, I got plenty of time.
Surprised they aren't more popular than they are. Not all that much more expensive than the standard models. Problem is most dealers won't stock them. I found that if I put em in stock, they'd sell pretty well. Guys would usually comment that they were glad they bought them. And once they were hooked, they'd only want the G models.
I think I will order a 562XPG and just wait for it to come in.
Some how the 562 xp has gained a fair bit in power and abit in noise lol, I ran it some yesterday in the rain and it never missed a beat . I found the 562xp/xpg cut pretty good but I could use abit more power so I got out the hammer and chisel and operated , everything went well and the saw is out of recovery and doing well
Just exhaust flow work?
No some old has been ported it
I am always afraid I'll remove too much metal and I haven't found a good metal fertilizer yet. :wink_2:
Been cutting with it for a couple days, starts better, zero hot start problems , way more torque and rpms in the wood , just a nicer saw to operate in my mind , found 22 inch bar setup to work better than either a 20 or 24 inch setup cutting this fairly good size hardwood , balances better with the 22 inch
I find 22 inch is just right for my 562's in most applications. I'm cutting beetle killed spruce almost exclusively though, not too many over 24 inch butts. If I get into a stand of greater diameters I just run a bigger saw and 24 or 28 inch. I do use 28 inch/562 for slashing and block clean-up but that's just to avoid bending over all of the time. I have trouble finding 22 inch bars. A couple of years ago I came across a few and bought them all.
I replaced the stock piston with the flat top piston when I ported mine but the biggest thing is the new piston blocks off the 2 boost ports on the intake side , all they did was let air in but very little and that causes the bog so now saw comes alive very well
The M1 and M2 pistons are interchangeable?
Quote from: DHansen on January 30, 2025, 07:52:32 PMI asked my local saw dealer today about a 562XPG, was told for now he can not get the 550 or the 562. He thought by March he would have some. They have been on order. He had no heated saws at all. I suspect I wont need the heated grips till next winter anyways. But as I get older I now like to run the saw with the heated grips. I never thought I would need them, but things are changing. Only saw I have with heated handles is an old 154SG. Definitely keeps the fingers from getting numb.
The main dealer I use is a Husky/Stihl dealer. I stopped in last Monday to grab some parts. He didn't have many Husky's at all. Which seemed weird, he usual has a lot of each brand in stock. I didn't ask him about it though.
NYH1.
I noticed my local Husky/Stihl dealer was out of some models of Huskies, too.
Spike , I'm using a OEM husky piston but I donot believe its the first run of the 562's as I donot think we can buy those any more up here , its the same height as the new 562 piston but has no dish ,
the 3 series husky saws are sometimes getting hard to get but my dealer seems to get as many as I want where lots of dealers claim they cannot get any , not sure how many 365/372s he has gotten me in the last month but its alot , I just never added it up but I'm thinking close to 15 now
Terry, if you need a piston a have some here at the house , not sure if your getting one off Pete or not
Hi Ed. The plan is to meet with Pete tomorrow to install the piston. He has one there. Thanks so much though. Really looking forward to the 365 later as well 💪💪
I haven't ran my new 562 mkll much at all. Maybe 2-3 tanks of gas. I used it the last couple of nights to hack some firewood up, and that son of a gun started hard! I figured the first time, it had sat a while and I needed to get the system primed with fuel. But then last night it took about 15 pulls. I sure hope it comes out of this with use, I hate it when I chuck new saws into the woods in anger😬😁
Barbender, how much do you prime the saw prior to pulling on the starter?
8 pumps
I don't have a 562, but my 592 and 572 require 7 pumps.
I donot use the primer as most times it never works , most times my 562s start in 3 or 4 pulls but I have abit more compression which the saw needs
I was under the impression that the primer system in these saws was not the same as the old school primer. As its only purpose was to purge air from the carburetor. Not actually pushing any fuel into the throttle bore area of the carburetor.
That's how it works on the non-Mk ii units for sure. The primer pulls fuel through the lower half of the carb and pushes it back to the tank, essentially priming the fuel pump portion of the carb.
I pump mine till the bulb "fills." Once the carb is primed, more pumps don't help anything, but Extra pumps won't hurt anything either. All the pumped fuel is going back to the tank, not into the carb body.
Eddy and Dave have it right. Idea of the primer is to get all the air out of the fuel loop. Which on older saws was done by the carb diaphragm while pulling the rope with the choke on. And once it firms/fills up, it's done its job. Counting really isn't necessary, and as stated, Xtra pulls do no harm. You can't flood the saw by priming too many times as you can by too many pulls with the choke on. Bonus is a primer is a great way to flush old fuel out of a carb without having to remove it.
The only time I use the primer is when I run the saw out of gas. Even then, being old school, half the time I forget it's there and just pull the rope till it starts.
All of this sounds wonderful. I'm not picky- no primer, pump 3x, 7x, I just want it to start on 3 pulls or less😊
Oh it can be made to start pretty good and run well , stock piston has the compression very much on the line of not being enough , I understand they are trying to have as little heat produced by the motor so lowering the compression is one way, the other thing they did is a very thick cylinder base gaskets so no heat comes from cylinder to crankcase
OK Ed, now you've got me curious. What is the 562 XP compression compared to a similar older saw, such as a 357 XP?
If you take a 562 mark1 and pull the cord on it and compare that to a mark11 , its very easy to feel the difference , the sparkplug is very small on these new saws so testing compression may not be as close like the bigger spark plug saws like a 357, but on my tester I'm at around 135 to 140 pounds on a stock 562 mark 11, most saws donot start running correct till 150 and my ported 562 mark 11 is at 170 pounds and it runs the best , Starts the best , runs nice and crisp , doesnot hunt on the autotune like the stock does , First start up in the morning your stock 562 needs to run on high idle for about 45 seconds or so to set the autotune for the day , my ported takes about 15 seconds to set itself . most guys would never notice or care but I listen to my saw all the time . Most stock huskies other than some of the newest series of saws are around 150 pounds of compression on my tester , Now if the new 562 came with a carb that would also help as you could set the saw up I feel better , I put a carb off the 372xt on a 562 before and made intake and boost ports carry fuel , Lot of work building a new intake block but saw ran very good and strong
So has anyone had the latest fuel program downloaded into the 562 mark11, I was told it just come out but who knows
I used to run Husky years ago but our dealers started going out of business. We are down to just one Husky dealer, and they are over a hour away and not the shop they used to be since changing hands. Still have and use a 385 I bought back in 2005 at the Sawlex show in Ohio that year.