Help for Hairless Yard Tool Owners
May 15th, 2024Maybe Some Day Manufacturers Will do This
I am doing something I should have done long ago. I am studying my yard tools and writing down useful things.
I’m writing stuff down here because I know other people have pulled their hair out trying to get this information.
My Echo chainsaw is a CS590 Timberwolf. It uses the same carb rebuild kit as Echo’s other 60cc saws. The part number is P033000000. The carb is made by an extremely annoying company, Walbro, which has horrible customer service. The Walbro part number is K22-HDA.
My Echo pole saw is a PPT-280. The carb part number is A021001340. It’s a Walbro WYK-233A. The rebuild kit’s part number is P003001120. The Walbro kit number appears to be K13-WYK. It replaced other kits with other numbers. The kit is hard to find due to poor support from Echo, which (apparently) is also Shindaiwa and Yamabiko.
My Echo weed trimmer is an SRM-3020T. It’s a monster. The carb is a Walbro WYG-11A, which you can get for about $80. Echo part A021004831. There are two repair kits. One is a tune-up kit which doesn’t include carb parts. It contains an air cleaner and spark plug and so on. The part number is 90181Y, and it costs over $30. The ECHO number for the carb kit is P003005940.
Check your weed trimmer’s serial number to make sure the carb kit fits. There were multiple versions.
Echo’s website is useless. It doesn’t function.
My Jonsered CS2240 (Husqvarna 435) saw has a Zama C1T-El41 carb. Easier to find than Walbro carbs. The rebuild kit has two part numbers. RB-149 and Z000-001-K035. Don’t ask me why. You can get one for around $12.
May 15th, 2024 at 6:22 PM
I got tired of keeping my gas powered weed trimmer going and went 60volt Dewalt. Never going back.
May 15th, 2024 at 8:34 PM
Same as Vlad, got tired of having to rebuild small engine carbs far too often, sold off my gas leaf blower, trimmer and edger, bought the Ryobi system with 40V 6 Amp battery pack. Blower and a weed whacker/edger. They are fantastic and I get an acre done in record time (seeing I am not fighting and cussing for a half hour every time with the gas tools).
May 15th, 2024 at 8:50 PM
I agree completely. The problem is that once your lot gets past a certain size, there are things you can’t do with cordless tools. Some trees are too thick. Some jobs take too long. Also, there is no substitute for Echo’s biggest backpack blower. I bought the biggest cordless I could find, and it’s not even close to adequate.
If I was living on half an acre, you couldn’t give me a gas-powered tool. I have a bunch of cordless stuff. I wish it were all I needed.
The guy who sold me the Husqvarna 562XP told me he never uses anything but electric tools.
May 16th, 2024 at 12:32 AM
Get more batteries. I once did my house with the weed whacker and took it to my mother in laws and finished her yard., Still had some to spare. (These are not tiny lots) I only have 2 batteries and they seem to last a long time. Never had to switch to the other battery.
This is a weed trimmer though. Not a chain saw or a blower. Not sure how the other tools work. Im sure the chain saw is not that great and not something thats pro.
Or is it?
May 16th, 2024 at 11:01 AM
If there is a saw out there that is adequate for a 24″ tree that has to have the trunk cut in pieces and the limbs removed, I have not seen it. I have been thinking of getting two more batteries for the Makita for smaller work.
The Echo blower is amazing. You can dig holes with it.
May 16th, 2024 at 8:02 PM
Upon your rec years ago, I got hubby the Echo blower, one notch down from the top model, and he still absolutely loves it. He puts on his backpack and walks the yard like the King of Wind, lol.
And yes, he can dig gullies in the soil with it, even in our hard clay.
I’m in the market for a chipper/shredder for myself, one that just does small limbs and twigs 3-4″ and smaller, to clean up the place and make quality ramial chipped wood for garden soil enrichment.
Planning to take my chances with craigslist, but am open to brand advice if you can spare it.
May 16th, 2024 at 8:08 PM
https://tomclothier.hort.net/page24.html
May 16th, 2024 at 8:17 PM
I don’t even know who makes them. If I did, I would tell you what I could.