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:censored: is all I have to say on this one...
$1200 new ??? !!!
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Pollock777
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458 lott I have 4wizz chain saws. 3 with bows/ 1 with 4ft. bar I also have a c-72 24" and 650ss 36" bar 2 top handle 14"homelites all running. I looked at the saws on ebay c-72 @1200new and 038@1000new I don't know were they get there $$$$ from. Back to the wizz Nothing like starting one up the day after a storm everyone for blocks around wants to see what your running .Mostly home ownes ,guys that have run them never forget what they sound like. P.S. I'm looking for chain for wizz gear drive if any one knows were I can find some please let me Know Thanks
eyolf
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Wasn't the Homelite XP a hot-rod based on the "C" crankcase?
I think Homelite catalogued a lot of old designs back in the day because they were still piled up in warehouses. Not like now, where mfg expects to ship product within minutes of completion and everything is "just in time".
You could still order the old Wiz and Zip saws long after they had torn down the assembly lines, probably the same with the "C" saws. In some areas folks liked to hang onto what had been working for them...if they'd had good luck with a certain model, they'd ask for another one when replacement time came around...
I think Homelite catalogued a lot of old designs back in the day because they were still piled up in warehouses. Not like now, where mfg expects to ship product within minutes of completion and everything is "just in time".
You could still order the old Wiz and Zip saws long after they had torn down the assembly lines, probably the same with the "C" saws. In some areas folks liked to hang onto what had been working for them...if they'd had good luck with a certain model, they'd ask for another one when replacement time came around...
bugfart
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Well I'm the jack-ass that bought it so I will naturally give a full report.
Let me give you some pointers why.
1) Municipalities do not overwork much of anything, but they kill everything they try to maintain. Normally a set of points has them overwhelmed and there the saw sits.
2) This seller has treated me well in the past
3) The over-priced saw is his Christmas hand-shake.
Here's my prediction
I will install electronic ignition and redo the entire fuel delivery system and that thing will run like hell, and look sweet cleaned up.
If not, I will install an extra cylinder gasket and use a 82cc set-up from an XL-98 and the cylinder will actually help scavenge better like that.
I will then have the first Super C-9
Either way it will beat the living daylights out of a Stihl costing twice as much all day long any day you like untill the Stihl wears out and then on to it's replacement to beat the tar out of.
It will come in under 100.00 including parts and shipping. Show me the 200.00 Stihl. And you have to be willing to sell it to me for 200 before you speak up.
I'm also the same jack-ass that purchased this SXL925 from him (municipality... they broke the flywheel trying to ... do what-ever it was they were trying to do) and fixed it, cleaned it up and put a nice gel handle on it. I stopped the auction early, some guy wanted it so bad.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=7732958753&ssPageName=STRK:MESO:IT
Let me give you some pointers why.
1) Municipalities do not overwork much of anything, but they kill everything they try to maintain. Normally a set of points has them overwhelmed and there the saw sits.
2) This seller has treated me well in the past
3) The over-priced saw is his Christmas hand-shake.
Here's my prediction
I will install electronic ignition and redo the entire fuel delivery system and that thing will run like hell, and look sweet cleaned up.
If not, I will install an extra cylinder gasket and use a 82cc set-up from an XL-98 and the cylinder will actually help scavenge better like that.
I will then have the first Super C-9
Either way it will beat the living daylights out of a Stihl costing twice as much all day long any day you like untill the Stihl wears out and then on to it's replacement to beat the tar out of.
It will come in under 100.00 including parts and shipping. Show me the 200.00 Stihl. And you have to be willing to sell it to me for 200 before you speak up.
I'm also the same jack-ass that purchased this SXL925 from him (municipality... they broke the flywheel trying to ... do what-ever it was they were trying to do) and fixed it, cleaned it up and put a nice gel handle on it. I stopped the auction early, some guy wanted it so bad.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=7732958753&ssPageName=STRK:MESO:IT
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Hey..I work for a municipality!!! We have an awsome shop. (Unlike some of our neighboring ones who are beginning to send their work to us.)
For tree crew we have Husqvarna's and they get run hard. We have three guys who have logging side jobs and damn near race each other to see who can creat the most carnage in a given day...keeps the chippers really working.
For tree crew we have Husqvarna's and they get run hard. We have three guys who have logging side jobs and damn near race each other to see who can creat the most carnage in a given day...keeps the chippers really working.
bugfart
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I've never seen the words work and municipality in the same sentence before. Where I'm from it would be considered an oxymoron.
I'm glad to hear there are good ones. They must pay you.
Now brick-layers... construction... and putting out little orange cones - no better anywhere.
Around here chainsaws are synonymous with profanity, greasy pages no longer legible, and spare parts when you're done.
I hope you were not insulted or anybody else that read it.
It's a bad joke of mine, sorry.
I'm glad to hear there are good ones. They must pay you.
Now brick-layers... construction... and putting out little orange cones - no better anywhere.
Around here chainsaws are synonymous with profanity, greasy pages no longer legible, and spare parts when you're done.
I hope you were not insulted or anybody else that read it.
It's a bad joke of mine, sorry.
Not offended. Not even a little bit. Actually another incedent about Municipality jokes was almost as funny...I was buying my son's first rifle. I pointed out a little single shot 17HMR/20 Guage New England Firearms gun...the guy across the counter said: "You want a STATE gun..."
I asked "whats a State gun????" and he replied..." A gun a STATE
HIGHWAY employee can figure out....." And I pointed out I was of the same ilk....He was amused.
(I don't have a self esteem issue to where these things matter..they are funny at times)
I asked "whats a State gun????" and he replied..." A gun a STATE
HIGHWAY employee can figure out....." And I pointed out I was of the same ilk....He was amused.
(I don't have a self esteem issue to where these things matter..they are funny at times)
toolfreak
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I have one of those (C-72). All I had to do was cut a 24in hackberry down. The old guy I did this for gave it to me. I'm suprised he was able to carry it out of his basement. Clean saw, put a carb kit in and it took right off. Poor thing sat for 15 years. Heavier than hell but runs like a top!
