You guys are probably sick of hearing about me and my evil Echo pole saw. But, by golly, I think I finally fixed it, and I’ll share what the fix was in case you have Echo issues.

The first, and biggest, problem: it would not run at all. The fix was a new carb, plug, fuel lines, and air and fuel filter.

I then pronounced it fixed, but when I took it out for some serious use it ran absolutely great for quite a while and then just sputtered and died. Let it sit for a while and it would run for a bit and die again. Well...that didn’t irritate me....much. So back to the internet for research, which suggested that a bad fuel vent valve could possibly be the problem. It’s a little white plastic thingie on the fuel tank vent line. It’s a check valve. The one on the saw was brand new, but I had an extra one. If that was the problem, it would starve the fuel off and cause the problem I was having. So I stuck the new one on the saw and we were off and running. Ran it an hour or so yesterday with no issues.

So put this in your memory bank.

That s why I use electric.

This!

....and plenty of batteries for it.

I have 5 DeWalt devices and 5 batteries.

I hear ya on the electric chainsaw, but my wife (chainsaw girl) ran out of battery power pretty early on in yesterday’s chainsaw fest.

Does DeWalt even make a battery powered pole saw?

My Echo electric crapped out this morning on the one battery I had with me. It’s gas polesaw counterpart saved the day.