McCulloch Chain Saws
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RandyMac
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Might be time to chill some.
Type your posts, wait five minutes, read it and decide if you wanted to say that.
Type your posts, wait five minutes, read it and decide if you wanted to say that.
Brian13
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The voice of wisdom speaks. We were all Y.D. and F.O.C., hell, I am not as young anymore, but I am still D. and F.O.C.. If he likes yellow saws he's learn-able.
Brian13
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I do that all the time, thats why most of my posts are only a sentence or two, everything else got deleted.
RandyMac
Stiff Member
Just don't listen to me when the subject is women. I have a high failure rate.
Eccentric
Mister Wizard
To hell with him. Yes I graduated HS before he was born. That's not that many years ago though. At work, you and I both see what these little bastards become. I doubt he'll straighten out.........................at least not without a few good trips to the woodshed. Probably too late for that. I don't want my Daughters around these punks. Already seeing some of these traits in the older one's classmates.
Hannah had a 'combined' birthday pool party with a friend of her's who has a birthday within days of hers. It was a couple of years ago. Think it was her 7th birthday. He's a good lad, but his family has moved away recently. Anywho....he'd invited a couple older neighbor boys (around 10 Y.O. or so) to the party, and they were constantly teasing Hannah to the point of tears. I told the two bastards that I had no problem drowning them in the pool if they continued to try and ruin my little girl's special day. Jenn heard me (as did one or two other parents there). I'll never forget the look in their faces. I'm surprised I didn't get talked to by the local cops. I think it was helpful that the local police chief (who now is the top dog in the county) has a kid that was a classmate of Hannah, and has been to our house!:msp_biggrin:
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Guido Salvage
Supreme Saw Whoreder
Same story, same result, just like the guy who beats his wife and/or girlfriend and says he will never do it again. Kyle tries to show us what a tough guy he is, but I suspect that his mother is the only girl that he has ever kissed.
cpr
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I'd just be happy to recieve the 101 I paid an arm and a leg for to go where the 790 motor I gave him used to be...
I think it's time to contact "authorities." Tell me sorry and make it right or say deal's off and give me the money back, just don't dare ignore me
, because I will command your attention.
Rant over...
I think it's time to contact "authorities." Tell me sorry and make it right or say deal's off and give me the money back, just don't dare ignore me
, because I will command your attention.Rant over...
If your looking for the revoked pic just take it off my echo 900 post! HAHA
man this thread is getting depressing.... how bout lets get back to saws.....
So, I have this 740-ish looking powerhead on my bench right now. It has no dsp, but it has an automatic oiler. From what I can discern from Acres' site, this is a frankensaw. Am I correct?
BTW there are no good numbers on the bottom, and there is no removable cylinder head. It has a flat carb with the primer button.
So, I have this 740-ish looking powerhead on my bench right now. It has no dsp, but it has an automatic oiler. From what I can discern from Acres' site, this is a frankensaw. Am I correct?
BTW there are no good numbers on the bottom, and there is no removable cylinder head. It has a flat carb with the primer button.
Brian13
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What is the bore and stroke? 790 and 795 both have auto oiler, and one has the DSP. I think the 795 has the DSP, I have a 50-50 shot at being right. So it could be a 790.
RandyMac
Stiff Member
Remember that McCulloch produced many of it's own Frankensaws.
Eccentric
Mister Wizard
You're batting 1000 Brian. The 790 has no DSP valve, while the 795 does.
Since a prior owner put forth some effort to make this saw the way he wanted it (swapped flywheel, clutch, clutch cover, and starter), then this saw could have started out as just about anything in the 'super series' engine family. Now Acres' site sez that the 740 didn't have an auto-oiler. Do we know for sure that it didn't? Either way, a bore measurement is in order.
It could be a 99cc 740 with an auto oiler equipped oil tank swapped on (or with the auto oiler installed at the factory if the Acres listing is in error).............or it could be a 103cc 790 with the 740 AF cover swapped on. Who knows.....
700 Series saws all have the pulse operated oiler, 740 and 790 with no compression release, 795 and 797's with the latching compression release.
My 740 and 795 both have the McCulloch flat back carburetor with primer. The Super 797 has perhaps a big SDC (not sure of the number) with an adapter to mate it to the larger flange.
Mark
My 740 and 795 both have the McCulloch flat back carburetor with primer. The Super 797 has perhaps a big SDC (not sure of the number) with an adapter to mate it to the larger flange.
Mark
Mr. Bow Saw
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The 740 came with the auto oiler.
East Tennessee Update
I admire you guys who make/made your living with a saw. Just put in 14+ hours and I am beat. Tonight I'll either sleep well due to exhaustion or not at all due to pain.
I and about 15 others spent the morning through mid-afternoon clearing county roads from a single lane down the middle to clearance side to side. I started off the morning by reminding all of the cutters that everything will be under tension and instructing the handlers that everything will be under tension and to watch the cutters because they will be focused especially because everything will be under tension. Another offered prayer for the folks in need and for safety. Thank GOD the prayers were heard as I'm not sure the message got through to the folks on the ground including me. First tree I cut, I failed to notice a small (less than 1" in diameter)tree underneath. With almost everyone watching, I get hit right between the eyes (no hard hat). It stunned me for a second and woke everyone else up. From a safety perspective the day was uneventful until a fella got mesmerized watching the 125 cut up a large white oak and failed to notice that he had moved back into the fall zone of a pine snag that another was falling. Pine needles that were stuck in the broken top brushed his shoulder. One more inch and his shoulder would have been crushed. Two more inches and he would have been killed. This happen no less than 2 minutes after we had moved him out of the fall zone and pointed out that felling was beginning.
I have very few pictures and none of actual work. I felt like I was invading someone's privacy to take pictures of the devastation we saw as we drove from one area to the next. It felt bad to drive by folks standing in the midst of debris with nothing but cardboard boxes to contain any belongings they could find. There was nothing we could do for them except make it easier for others to get to them.
We spent the late afternoon and evening clearing around a home that had survived. We didn't need the long bar but did use the 3 footer on the white oak. The PM800 got a real work out but I must have mismeasured the mix as it smoked so bad you couldn't see the cut when the muffler side was up. It ran like nothing was wrong. The PM8200 quit after a half tank and would not restart. I'll have to figure that out another day. The 036Pro would bog with the slightest pressure even on 10" stuff. I thought I would richen it only to discover it has limiter caps and it was at the limit. Contrary to my MACs it has always been dealer serviced so I guess I shouldn't have been surprised by the caps but I was.
After my last episode of sticking two saws with root ball stand ups as I cut the stem, I rehearsed in my mind my errors and a better game plan. I got to use it today with the large white oak which had a 20" pine root ball intertwined. Both root balls went up and the stem came down just as rehearsed. What a relief.
Reflecting back on the day I was thankful for the privilege of getting to help some folks in desperate need. I was also thankful for the first time for all the felling mistakes I made over the years. Particularly, all the trees I hung in others - a regular occurance in my younger days of many misadventures which through no merit of my own I survived and taught me some of the dynamics involved as well as techniques to get out of such pickles. I never dreamed I would be in a situation where I had to cut trees suspended by telephone lines. But for my waywardness, I would not have been prepared for the reversal that can occur in the end nor the suddenness.
I'll try to post a few pictures.
Ron
Loaded for bear -
It is hard to imagine that you look out at the mountains and see this beauty -
And turn your head and see a double wide standing almost two stories high -
I admire you guys who make/made your living with a saw. Just put in 14+ hours and I am beat. Tonight I'll either sleep well due to exhaustion or not at all due to pain.
I and about 15 others spent the morning through mid-afternoon clearing county roads from a single lane down the middle to clearance side to side. I started off the morning by reminding all of the cutters that everything will be under tension and instructing the handlers that everything will be under tension and to watch the cutters because they will be focused especially because everything will be under tension. Another offered prayer for the folks in need and for safety. Thank GOD the prayers were heard as I'm not sure the message got through to the folks on the ground including me. First tree I cut, I failed to notice a small (less than 1" in diameter)tree underneath. With almost everyone watching, I get hit right between the eyes (no hard hat). It stunned me for a second and woke everyone else up. From a safety perspective the day was uneventful until a fella got mesmerized watching the 125 cut up a large white oak and failed to notice that he had moved back into the fall zone of a pine snag that another was falling. Pine needles that were stuck in the broken top brushed his shoulder. One more inch and his shoulder would have been crushed. Two more inches and he would have been killed. This happen no less than 2 minutes after we had moved him out of the fall zone and pointed out that felling was beginning.
I have very few pictures and none of actual work. I felt like I was invading someone's privacy to take pictures of the devastation we saw as we drove from one area to the next. It felt bad to drive by folks standing in the midst of debris with nothing but cardboard boxes to contain any belongings they could find. There was nothing we could do for them except make it easier for others to get to them.
We spent the late afternoon and evening clearing around a home that had survived. We didn't need the long bar but did use the 3 footer on the white oak. The PM800 got a real work out but I must have mismeasured the mix as it smoked so bad you couldn't see the cut when the muffler side was up. It ran like nothing was wrong. The PM8200 quit after a half tank and would not restart. I'll have to figure that out another day. The 036Pro would bog with the slightest pressure even on 10" stuff. I thought I would richen it only to discover it has limiter caps and it was at the limit. Contrary to my MACs it has always been dealer serviced so I guess I shouldn't have been surprised by the caps but I was.
After my last episode of sticking two saws with root ball stand ups as I cut the stem, I rehearsed in my mind my errors and a better game plan. I got to use it today with the large white oak which had a 20" pine root ball intertwined. Both root balls went up and the stem came down just as rehearsed. What a relief.
Reflecting back on the day I was thankful for the privilege of getting to help some folks in desperate need. I was also thankful for the first time for all the felling mistakes I made over the years. Particularly, all the trees I hung in others - a regular occurance in my younger days of many misadventures which through no merit of my own I survived and taught me some of the dynamics involved as well as techniques to get out of such pickles. I never dreamed I would be in a situation where I had to cut trees suspended by telephone lines. But for my waywardness, I would not have been prepared for the reversal that can occur in the end nor the suddenness.
I'll try to post a few pictures.
Ron
Loaded for bear -
It is hard to imagine that you look out at the mountains and see this beauty -
And turn your head and see a double wide standing almost two stories high -
The two 740 IPLs that I have both show and automatic oiler on the bar oil tank page. The oiler assembly is part # 60253. My 740 has the automatic oiler as well.
Here is a pic of mine. Man I really need to get that saw cleaned up!
Thanks for the comments. I didn't realize that the 790 did not have DSP. The saw picture on Acres' site shows a DSP lever.......
It will be awhile before I get down to the bore and stroke on this one. Good compression, and great spark, but the carb is giving me fits. I'll keep at it.
It will be awhile before I get down to the bore and stroke on this one. Good compression, and great spark, but the carb is giving me fits. I'll keep at it.
Interesting Deprime..... Of course your saw is a franken as well with that left hand start. IPL's don't lie though.
Stirring pictures Ron. Sorry my ?'s are interfering with your story.
Are there two SP125's in your car?
Are there two SP125's in your car?
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