2101xp/ top all time muscle saws!!!!!!!!!!!
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Totally agree, the 2100cd is my all time favorite! I started running then in the early 90's, love that sound!!
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Nice, u still use them?Norm, I would expect the two 2100's I retired from loggin' will still be going long after I'm gone. Parts are not fun to find, though.
Kevin
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Sure cant!
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I love em
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Good solid performers for big wood.
A slightly ported and non governed 090 is about the only saw I like to stump with.
It's faster than a sp125, IMO. Nothing stops it...
It's faster than a sp125, IMO. Nothing stops it...
Do you have a SP125 ?
No but my buddy does.
I can routinely beat him in the same wood.
Now I have run another 090 with a governor and unless you keep the motor loaded up, it hits the governor all the time.
Your buddy saw in good running shape and properly tuned ,
Of course.
I have some big old macs, and have heard all the praises. I have just found a slightly ported 090 with no governor to be faster.
Yes, but COVID changed my whole landscape. Before I was contracting out clearing jobs and dealing with 'problem trees' etc. Things slowed to a crawl and now nada. I'm not sure why I lost all that business. I'm retirement age anyway now, but I'd still like to pick and choose.
I know how it is.....I start getting rid of saws, then the work comes back.....
Kevin
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Still cutting strong!
I bet there's some storm cleanup out your way, give the old Hooski some exercise!
In anything over three ft, they're king. They even outpace my Jonsered 2094 and that's saying a lot. But you have to be in wood over three ft to beat that J'red.
It doesn't hurt the 2100 to tune over 11,000rpm. I run mine about 11,300rpm with the governor plugged.
Kevin
They certainly are a legend in Husky lore with the old fallers . Certainly enjoy running mine .
In the past, I posted the lore and how they came into being. I was there and bought early production models. Stihls were on most of the loggin' shows I worked at until the 2100 came out. Then it became a sea of orange, even when I moved to CO.
I started out life with an 075, and what a heavy piece of junk by comparison.
You guys slave me with those 'D' handles and velocity stacks. No one has been able to prove any significant gain with a velocity stack on a 2100 and I've seen computer-generated flow/gain tests. You would have been laughed outa the woods with those handles, but yeah, I get it. At 70, I have no problems pulling over the 2100's. Usually, I plug any saw with a comp relief because I've seen them gunk up and rob compression. But whatever floats your boat!
Kevin
Did you ever run one of these, kinda has its own lore in the PNW .
When I came into it, MAC's were mostly relegated to landing work. The old timers that ran them either retired or switched to Swedish/German saws. Maybe that didn't hold true on every loggin' show in the PNW, but I tramped around and worked quite a few. I heard about the big MAC's and the Homelites, of course.....just didn't see them on the shows.
You gotta understand that before quasi-synthetic oil mixes came out like Powerpunch, you only got about a season on a fallin'/buckin' saw. Except on private timber sales, you didn't see loggers hauling around old saws. And no one was gonna buy a MAC if the word was a 2100 could run circles around it. Admittedly before the 2100 came out, The Homelites and the MAC's took out a HUGE amount of PNW timber.
Homelite and MAC had the technology and wherewithal to compete against the Swedes/Germans, but MAC's owner sold the business and the two companies decided that homeowner saws were where to be....sad, but true.
Kevin
