Putting a date on a stihl chainsaw

[BjornBee]

I have a stihl 031AV. A real beast and workhorse, and bought used about 15 years ago.

I wanted to look into another one, but there are so many model numbers out there, I'm lost. I searched for a site to date stihl chainsaws but can not find anything. Maybe I'm not looking correctly.

Can anyone help? Anyone know anything about dates/models or do you know of a site?

There are plenty of used saws. But it seems nobody actually lists the year it was manufactured.

Thank you.

[Charles]

From what I could find stihl only put date codes in the serial number on certain models but you may be able to find something here:

http://www.acresinternet.com/cscc.nsf/6 ... enDocument (http://www.acresinternet.com/cscc.nsf/673d78ec01557aea88256b00005457e6/9d20f3a4beb2eb4088256b78006517b8?OpenDocument)

[riverrat]

get ahold of a stihl dealer they can tell you. I sold both my stihls and run dolmars now they will cut circles around a stihl

[alleyyooper]

Go to this site and the guys there will help you out.

http://www.arboristsite.com/

We even have a beekeeping thread there that is several years old many pages long.

:mrgreen: Al