Good deal cheaper than a new saw that's for sure.

 

still buying a new saw. the stihl is my buddys saw, that im commandeering, until he puts down cash for destroying my homelite!

 

I'd just take the Stihl in exchange and be done with it!

 

nope... its old, and i want new, haha! ill put the jonsered on layaway, and pick it up in a few weeks!

getting a generator first.

 

I too would just take the Stihl in exchange.

I really doubt the homelite costs anything near what a good Stihl would

 

When it comes to chain saws,... some friends and I used to cut “100” sticks” for the paper mill. When we would do that we called it 'working in the bolt mines'

It wasn't like we had a contract or a deadline for when we had to have a load ready so it was just for extra money and it was mostly fun for us. We would cut the trees drag them up to a platform then cut them to length and load them on the 1940 Ford flatbed truck and haul them to the paper mill. A lot of other folks in the area did the same thing.

At first I did not own my own saw so I mostly ran the tractor with the jammer on it to drag the trees up to the platform. With my first check I bought an old McCullough chain saw. It had like a 6 foot long bar with handle bars on the other end, it was rated at 9 horsepower. A little over kill since the largest diameter trees we were cutting were 12” at most. It was a true brute of a thing, heavy, hard to start, and harder to keep running. After the first week I guess I had run enough gas through it that the carb had cleaned itself up enough that it would run a lot better. It took two big men and a strong boy to handle it. Once I got it started for the day the only problem was keeping gas in it. With my next check I bought a much shorter bar, closer to 24” that was still a little over kill.

This required a smaller chain so I brought the saw to the saw store to see if I could get a smaller clutch to be able to run the smaller chain correctly. The store dude said he had never seen such a large motor on a saw before and doubted I would be able to get the proper size clutch but if I would leave it for a week or so he would do what he could.

I bought a used MiniMac 120 for $75.00 which was just a toy compared to my big one and went off to work. The nearly new MiniMac was great, light, easy to start and very maneuverable. Great in brush and a joy to limb with but it seemed to always be out of gas.
Finally one day the dude from the saw store called and said I could pick up my saw anytime he got the new bar working fine. When I got there and was looking it over he was showing me how he had silver soldered the right size drive sprocket to the old clutch drum so the smaller chain tracked true.

Then he picked the saw up and gave it one pull and it fired right up and ran superbly. I mentioned how it looked like it was much easier to pull now and he said Yeah, well I hooked up the compression release.

I had seen that pull **** but it didn't do anything for me and was not marked compression release so had never used it before. After that I ran the guts out of the saw rebuilt it and ran it more. Eventually I built it into a mini bike and sold it. It was a very strong mini bike engine. I just used the original clutch but with a #35 chain sprocket welded to it where the chain saw sprocket had been.

The kid that bought it from me came around years later wanting to know if I still had the bar and chain for the thing because he was going to convert it back. The last time I saw him he had not converted it back to a saw instead his son was riding the mini bike. I'd built that on the order of 35 years before and it was still going fine. I asked if he had replaced any thing and he said no. He'd had the same dude that tuned it up for me tune it up and put air in the tires along with a bottle of Slime in both tires and off it went.

For years the only chainsaws I owned were the MiniMac and an electric Remington. The MiniMac finally died and is no more so the electric has been all I've needed but last summer I bought a cute little Sears Craftsman with a 17” bar. Somehow I don't think I'd like to go to the bolt mines with that one. Its fine for no more than I cut these days though.

 

The fast and furious franchise will never be the same again.. paul walker died in a fiery car crash yesterday.