Hey Saw Troll and Chainsaw Trivia Experts

[jomoco]

The first great midsize Husky I ever owned was a 254XP, it was a great light weight high revving 325 pitch saw.

The funny thing was it came with a very unusual attachment that operated off the saw's compression via a line that attached where a normal compression release would be.

What was the name of this unusual attachment and what did it do?

I assume these attachments came on other huskies as well, though I've never seen one on any other saw.

Should be a piece of cake for Saw Troll, post a picture of it if you have one, the other guys will get a kick out of it. It never worked well at all, hence it's rarity.

jomoco

 

[ShoerFast]

Just from the hip, never seen anything like it, but could it be something like a turbin bleed air system for like a handle heater?

 

[jomoco]

Loggers ROFL!

Just from the hip, never seen anything like it, but could it be something like a turbin bleed air system for like a handle heater?

Nice try ShoerFast, here's a hint, all the loggers on this forum are gonna be rolling on the floor laughing when they here what this great Nordic invention was. How it ever came to market and made it into my hands here in SoCal is a mystery.

I'm sure SawTroll can explain... I think?

jomoco

 

[romeo]

I give up. I went through IPL's and manuals for the 254/257/262 family and I couldn't find anything like you describe.

All I can come up with is:
1.a heater like shoer was talking about.

2.a cylinder primer.

3.some sort of valve to create variable compression (though I couldn't see why).

4.some kind of carb heater for cold weather.

5.an air chuck so you can air up your tire's.

6.a built in compression gauge.

most of those are stupid ideas but these are all I can think of.

 

[John Ellison]

Tree jack.:greenchainsaw: I am sure it would rip em right off the stump.

 

[SawTroll]

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I'm sure SawTroll can explain... I think?

jomoco

Nope, leaves me cold, unless it is an early version of the auto-decomp, that they now have abandoned anyway on the 357xp.....

There has been several pretty funny attachments on Huskys in Sweden, but that one is new to me......

Btw, I believe that a 254xp would be better off with a 3/8" chain......

 

[Dan Forsh]

One of those little men chopping wood that you get on novelty garden windmills?

 

[Dan Forsh]

A mashmellow roaster for that authentic two stroke smokey flavour?

 

[Dan Forsh]

A nail varnish dryer for the logger in touch with his feminine side?

 

[Dan Forsh]

A tyre inflator for really small trucks?

 

[Esbjug]

This was an exhaust driven felling wedge!

The first great midsize Husky I ever owned was a 254XP, it was a great light weight high revving 325 pitch saw.

The funny thing was it came with a very unusual attachment that operated off the saw's compression via a line that attached where a normal compression release would be.

What was the name of this unusual attachment and what did it do?

I assume these attachments came on other huskies as well, though I've never seen one on any other saw.

Should be a piece of cake for Saw Troll, post a picture of it if you have one, the other guys will get a kick out of it. It never worked well at all, hence it's rarity.

jomoco

I think, from deep inside my memory, Husqvarna did sell and market a fibre, felling wegde, powered from the chainsaw exhaust. I guess some of you folks have seen this before. This invention was made from some kind of reinforced material, and was gradually filled with exhaust gas making the tree fall. First two cuts were made, making room for the fibre wegde, and then the tube was attached to the saw. The engine did run and did fill the wegde. I have searched with google, but did not find anything yet.

Sawtroll: I must get a star in the book for this one!

 

[dneiger]

Wedge

It was a compression felling wedge, worked pretty well on smaller trees but by the time you got it into position and hooked up you could have 3 other trees down with conventional wedges. Quick connector screwed into the decomp. hole.

 

[SawTroll]

I think, from deep inside my memory, Husqvarna did sell and market a fibre, felling wegde, powered from the chainsaw exhaust. I guess some of you folks have seen this before. This invention was made from some kind of reinforced material, and was gradually filled with exhaust gas making the tree fall. First two cuts were made, making room for the fibre wegde, and then the tube was attached to the saw. The engine did run and did fill the wegde. I have searched with google, but did not find anything yet.

Sawtroll: I must get a star in the book for this one!

You already have several stars in my book.....:biggrinbounce2:

Frankly, I thought they had abandoned the "Nordfeller" attachment before the 254xp came out, but there is allways more to learn!

I also thought it was inflated by exaust gases, and not directly from the cylinder (still think so, actually).......

 

[Dan Forsh]

Here you go:


It is run off the compression Troll

 

[SawTroll]

Here you go:


It is run off the compression Troll

Sure enough, sorry all here, but my mind is with Ralph right now, not thinking clearly........

 

[stihl 440]

felling

felling cushion!

 

[jomoco]

Bingo!

I think, from deep inside my memory, Husqvarna did sell and market a fibre, felling wegde, powered from the chainsaw exhaust. I guess some of you folks have seen this before. This invention was made from some kind of reinforced material, and was gradually filled with exhaust gas making the tree fall. First two cuts were made, making room for the fibre wegde, and then the tube was attached to the saw. The engine did run and did fill the wegde. I have searched with google, but did not find anything yet.

Sawtroll: I must get a star in the book for this one!

Well Esbjug you are close enough, as Dan said the Nordfeller was compression powered.

I got a real kick out of a company like Husky coming up with such a lame invention and actually getting it to market!

I'm somewhat shocked that this Nordic invention would be unknown to SawTroll, but there's always a first time for everything.

I actually tried the nordfeller a couple times, got a good laugh out of it, then chucked it in the useless parts pile. But the 254 was a great little saw.

I was hoping someone other than me had come across one, and that it wasn't just a figment of my imagination!

You guys are good!

jomoco

 

[Tzed250]

I have a brochure around somewhere with the attachment in it...

 

[ChuckinOhio]

I got a real kick out of a company like Husky coming up with such a lame invention and actually getting it to market!

Those wacky Scandinavians will never cease to amaze humanity with their inventiveness.

And I thought a NordFeller was a dude from Norway, Hmmm, who'd have thunk it.


Chuck

 

[SawTroll]

... I'm somewhat shocked that this Nordic invention would be unknown to SawTroll, but there's always a first time for everything.
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I actually did know about it, FE and FG designations, instead of SE/SG indicated that the saw had it, at least in the 80ies...

It really never interested me, though, and I admit that I didn't know exactly how it worked.