Lets see your old [still working] chainsaws

[WDH]

ely,

You have had yours for 21 years!

blueduck,

Everytime I see your name I think of Lonesome Dove .

[ely]

ok thanks, now i have to go look for some other website to fit in, someplace where folks do not point out how old i am.
and i really did like it here.

 i really got that saw in a trade, me and a buddy cut a semi load of firewood and my buddy wanted a car that i had, he gave me that saw and his half of the wood for my car. a 1972 toyota conrona deluxe. the saw has been a good one, the friend an even better one, and i bought the car back for 200 bucks a year later, still running.

[mburrow]

here is my Homelite Super XL925, it was made in the 1970s 

[sawguy21]

Tighten that chain before you fire the monster.

[WDH]

My experience with chainsaws growing up was a disaster.  Every time we needed to cut something, we had to spend 3 or 4 hours trying to get the Poulan to run.  It sputtered and smoked and generally defied us.  I thought all chainsaws were a pestilence. 

When as a young adult of 25 years of age, independent and ready to clear for my house site, I needed a saw.  I bought the husky 61.  It cost me right at $400.  That was a fortune back then, but as history has proven, that was one of the very best investments of my life.  Also, it started everytime I pulled the cord so my chainsaw cost per productive chainsaw-person-hour was astronomically low compared to the bevy of Poulan's that I grew up with .

[sawguy21]

  My dad's Mac 15 was like your Poulan. I learned to wrench on that miserable thing because he was not mechanically inclined and had no patience with it. I was thoroughly convinced there was no such thing as a good chainsaw. So began my career as a small engine mechanic.

[ely]

that homelite in the picture hurts my head just looking at it.   dad and the uncle had several of those saws for years acually decades. they swore by them, sometimes at them. but now for some reason the only saw my dad grabs is the 55 husky.

[mike_van]

All those guys that did all that swearing probably never went back to the bucksaw though - 

[sawguy21]

At least the bucksaw started when they needed it.

[weimedog]

 

Listed Top down...these saws are in use frequently. There isn't a saw in these pictures that I can't start in three pulls hot or cold and even in 15-20 degree temps. Some are first pull starters. That husky 365 is the hardest when temps are cold.

1) McCulloch 797 (123cc Saw...runs excellent, easy starter. Used for milling.)
2) Homelite XL-800 (82cc)
3) Husqvarna 365 (65cc backup saw)
4) Homelite Super XL (Trail saw & clean up tops)
5) Homelite XP-1020A (100cc for blocking the big timber.)
6) (Left side) Homelite S-XL925 (82cc backup saw)
7) (Right side & yellow!) McCulloch 660 Gear drive (87cc just for fun & games blocking hard maple)
Me with a XL-903 Slicing fence rails
9) (Left side) My MAIN day to day saw...a 82cc Homelite XL-903 & (Right Side) C-7

[RaisedByWolves]

 Nice saws there Weimedog!


 Heres some pics of my 750 in action.

 Yes its punky wood, No I dont have me earplugs in, No Red is not my color.


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[mike_van]

I picked a Homelite XL 101 up on ebay, just came yesterday, 49.00.  I bought one of these new when I was in high school, '67 I think? It was about 100.00 then - The most expensive thing I owned at the time!  Runs good, just as advertised, chain was some dull though - I made a bumper spike for it this morning in the shop, piece of stainless, a little grinding, 2 holes & ready to go     It's got a really small muffler on it, man is it loud - I know there's a bigger 3 screw one, if anyones got one they'd part with, I'd give it a good home.    I like the old saws, no plastic, easy to work on - 

[letsgetitracing]

 I was at a guys house today that raced and built chainsaws for 40 years . He was the first one to put a snowmobile engine on a saw or more like it a chain on a snowmobile engine. He has the koolest saws I ever heard of Dolmar, Homelite, Partner, MCcullah *sp,  Husky a few of them from 1958 when they started Husquavarna. You walk in his shop and there is saws hanging all over alot of them have pipes on them saying 80 cc 100 cc 200 cc  He has a twin carbed mac daddy as he calls it yellow mcullah*sp

  I told him about this site hopefully he comes on and shows pic they are neet as heck.
He built a twin engine saw 32 hp it had twin bar and chains  and after he made 5 cuts in 4.86 sec they told him you can only use one engine. He said the class is open competition. He said next year i am going to make one that has 5 bars and chains and run it off a car motor and only make one cut and they sent him a rule book saying it had to be carried by one guy and had to be pull started and so on and so on so he didn't build it. This was back in mid 70's.

He told me that homelite started out one color then changed a few years later and he can tell from the color when it was made. It was facination he is like a computer when he opens his mouth knowledge falls out.

If anyone want his number i can get it he modifies saw also for a living.

[Cut4fun]

letsgetitracing ,     The guy didn't happen to live near Luther did he?
I know a guy that has a shop up that way that sounds similar.

[Al_Smith]

 Oh I have a bunch of old ones that run.These are most likely the nicest ones.http://www.acresinternet.com/cscc.nsf/ed1d619968136da688256af40002b8f7/29f7cc7d4279fc0988256c260014ff02?OpenDocument  And this one  http://www.acresinternet.com/cscc.nsf/ed1d619968136da688256af40002b8f7/cc6e27f21cad04bb88256c2e00782d34?OpenDocument .

In my case it is easier to paste the link than the picture.Besides that in the link they aren't all scatched up from use.

[letsgetitracing]

Cut 4 fun no he lives in Bad Axe Michigan I hope he registers he is one of us bigger is allways better in life in most cases anyway

[olyman]

 It could be as easy as a partly sheared flywheel key too, you have spark, just not at the time it's needed.  -------aaronak---------of the forums i attend--this sounds right--esp since it never ran right for his dad---i/e rough---take it to the stihl dealer----and have him put in a new flywheel key---mostly labor cost--and be careful--if you dont pull it right--could break the flywheel--or bend the crank---serious

[musikwerke]

I have a Jonsereds Model 52 which I bought new in 1974.  I put a rebuild kit in the carb and a new drive sprocket on it a couple of years ago and aside from the occcasional new bar and spark plug, that it.  Last year as part of my pre-retirement plan I bought a new Stihl MS 361.  Yeah, it has more power but it's loud has more vibration so I tend to reach for the Jonsereds first.

[mike_van]

This one just came today,Homelite XL 113. Nice saw! Runs fine, right out of the box.   

[wudhed]

I picked up a Stihl 051 with a 28" bar at a rummage sale, the previous owner said it ran great until one day and it wouldnt ever start after that. He said it would also kick back and try to jerk the starter rope out of his hands, I took a small engines class in high school and knew right away that he had put straight gas in it and not mix!   I paid the guy 5 bucks which he thought was too much and took it home dumped out the gas and put some mix in it. Fired on the third pull! That thing sounded like a well tuned Harley! It had so much vibration if you set it on the ground with it idling it would turn itself over on its side! One of the cuttingest saws I have ever seen!