McCulloch Chain Saws

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1-1/2 turns each will be plenty rich, you will probably end up between 1 and 1-1/4 turns out for each.

The styles and part numbers change but the PM 700 cover should fit the PM 800 just fine.

Mark

Thanks mark,thanks heaps:msp_thumbup:

 

[promac850]

Paccity... that is a nice haul... the most two man saws from one source that I've ever seen!!

Speaking of hauls, tomorrow pops and I will be taking the Suburban and the trailer down to work with us... after work, we will be helping Lenny clean out his saw shed/barn...

Lenny is happy with my performance at work, stuffing those screens into PVC elbows, running the press so he can run the other one, assembling those panels, packing those little adapter/vent kits, etc. So, I guess I earned a bunch of saws, along with whatever my paycheck amounts to when I am done working there...

Hopefully there will be a bunch of interesting saws in there. Please don't start PMing the #### out of me... when I get it all home, I will be cataloging it into Excel, and with quantitties of each saw brand, and model. I will then be making careful decisions as to what I don't need/want in the collection... and I will offer them up on the classifieds.

Exceptions are Mark, Ron, Aaron, Randy, and a few others here... I will personally contact the others with PM's regarding saw parts and parts saws and ask whether they need them or not... The above three may holler at a whim with what they need after I state that I finished cataloging it all. Again, this is AFTER I catalog the saws/parts and stuff.

It will take some time to go through them, I imagine. The guy has run a tree service forever, and still does. That right there should mean a lot of saws.

He did mention old Macs... :msp_w00t:

I don't think I will need many more, if any saws after a haul like I think this one might be... I'll probably need parts and such, but definitely won't need many more saws...

I plan on fixing a couple of old ones and giving them back to him as a thanks, since he is literally giving it all to me... I don't feel right just taking it for free unless he insists I do, and insists on not being given a couple of good old runners. Some I will fix and sell, others I will save as parts, and yet others will be projects.

I'm envisioning our Burb full of saws, from the back of the front seat to the inside of the tailgate, and the little double former jet ski hauling trailer (now a hauling trailer with stake sides) full of them too...

We'll see tomorrow... I somehow doubt he has that many saws though... I hope I'm wrong, of course...

Shop Monkey gonna have a field trip tomorrow!!

 

[Warped5]

Good luck, Kyle!

 

[Mr. Bow Saw]

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Nice load of saws paccity.

 

[GrizzlyAdams86]

I was able to get the 77 back together today. I will try to put together another thread showing as much detail as I can about the carburetor, throttle, and the intake (rotary valves) but it will have to wait until later in the week. Next up on the 77 will be to figure out why the oiler doesn't work. I will need to learn the secrets of starting this one, but once you get it going it idles nicely and revs up pretty well. Certainly the H adjust works as it should, I will tell more of the story on that in the 77 thread when I get it going.

I will point out that I had to change the muffler, I have not seen one rusted out on these big, old saws before but the original was shot. This one came off a 47 I had in the attic (from Grizzly Adams so don't get nervous Jerry) and took a lot of cleaning, I think the 47 must have been running 16:1 using 90W gear oil for a few years and was really loaded with baked on carbon. Looks O.K. now.

Tomorrow after church & lunch I have to drive to Kansas City, should be there 3 days then a stop in St. Joe and hopefully home by Friday. Ideally there will be some time in the evenings during the week to do a little catching up here on AS.

Thanks Ron for the heads up on those mufflers, looks like Bryce has quite a lot of NOS McCulloch parts he has not had posted before.

ChainsawmanXX - I found all the parts you need but the AF cover it pretty rough. I will try to post some photo's later on or PM me with an e-mail address and I can send them directly that way.

Mark

I was going to say that muffler sure shines more now than when I had it! (best pic of it I got)

Good to see you're getting some use out of that saw.

 

[promac850]

Good luck, Kyle!

Thanks!

Was it you that kept saying you find dead mice? Send me a pm.

I, to be honest, thought it would take much longer to get inside of Lenny's shed... I am glad it didn't!!

 

[ChainsawmanXX]

Thanks!

Was it you that kept saying you find dead mice? Send me a pm.

I, to be honest, thought it would take much longer to get inside of Lenny's shed... I am glad it didn't!!

Kyle your such a lucky guy! LOL All the good deals I ever seem to find is 50cc and less :msp_razz:

 

[jeff76]

Question concerning sp125

I've finally started to reassemble the sp125 that's been laying on the bench for quite some time now and I have a question? There is a small felt wiper that I believe came out of the area where the points are. Where does this fit exactly? I don't see any kind of pocket for it. I was assuming that it was an oil wiper for the cam on the crankshaft, but I don't see anything to hold it in place anywhere. Am I way off on this or not?

Thanks,
Jeff

 

[Brian13]

I've finally started to reassemble the sp125 that's been laying on the bench for quite some time now and I have a question? There is a small felt wiper that I believe came out of the area where the points are. Where does this fit exactly? I don't see any kind of pocket for it. I was assuming that it was an oil wiper for the cam on the crankshaft, but I don't see anything to hold it in place anywhere. Am I way off on this or not?

Thanks,
Jeff

You are correct, it wipes the crankshaft. Here is a pic with it installed, should be close to the same as your 125. If you look at the top of the points box you can see where it sits.

 

[rwoods]

Kyle your such a lucky guy! LOL All the good deals I ever seem to find is 50cc and less :msp_razz:

PM me with your address and we can get you one saw up on this problem with a little work on your part. Ron

 

[jeff76]

You are correct, it wipes the crankshaft. Here is a pic with it installed, should be close to the same as your 125. If you look at the top of the points box you can see where it sits.

Thanks Brian, that pic is just what I needed.

Thanks,
Jeff

 

[Eccentric]

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Holy Crap what a haul! Awesome 2-Man McMuscle, plus a nice looking 890 to boot. Aaron digs it!!!!

Finally got the 890 working!!!! Yesterday I had the metering lever set way to high, readjusted it and its seems to be doing good now. Going to shoot for Wednesday to put it in some wood.

[video=youtube_share;DgCQyNVH0Tg]http://youtu.be/DgCQyNVH0Tg[/video]

Great job Brian! I knew you'd get it. I'm on the hunt for a gearbox and other geardrive-specific parts from a large frame McCulloch. Going to convert a 740 into an 840!

On a side note on that "740" I just got in trade (thanks bro, it arrived safe, and had oiled the cardboard box bottom pretty good! I'll get your end of it to you after this weekend.)...The engine block has no paint and looked like a replacement. The number on the bottom (58486A) matches 58486 in my older McCulloch publications as a W-1 Welder Engine. Same bore as a 103cc Mac saw. Don't know what the stroke is. Piston and ring part numbers don't match ANY other McCullochs in the catalog. Anybody know what's "special" about the W-1 Welder engine (compared to other 2.219" bore Macs), or what the stroke measurement should be? Compression feels good on the saw. Haven't gotten any farther into it yet. It was on the porch when I got home from work last night. I think the delivery people dragged it the last few miles to my house. Been playing computer catchup this morning, as my service has been down since sunday...

I was able to get the 77 back together today. I will try to put together another thread showing as much detail as I can about the carburetor, throttle, and the intake (rotary valves) but it will have to wait until later in the week. Next up on the 77 will be to figure out why the oiler doesn't work. I will need to learn the secrets of starting this one, but once you get it going it idles nicely and revs up pretty well. Certainly the H adjust works as it should, I will tell more of the story on that in the 77 thread when I get it going.

I will point out that I had to change the muffler, I have not seen one rusted out on these big, old saws before but the original was shot. This one came off a 47 I had in the attic (from Grizzly Adams so don't get nervous Jerry) and took a lot of cleaning, I think the 47 must have been running 16:1 using 90W gear oil for a few years and was really loaded with baked on carbon. Looks O.K. now.


Tomorrow after church & lunch I have to drive to Kansas City, should be there 3 days then a stop in St. Joe and hopefully home by Friday. Ideally there will be some time in the evenings during the week to do a little catching up here on AS.

Thanks Ron for the heads up on those mufflers, looks like Bryce has quite a lot of NOS McCulloch parts he has not had posted before.

ChainsawmanXX - I found all the parts you need but the AF cover it pretty rough. I will try to post some photo's later on or PM me with an e-mail address and I can send them directly that way.

Mark

Great job Mark! Hope to read more about it soon, and to see/hear video...........and someday see it run in person. I didn't realize the muffler was rotted out. Did look a bit bent up on the outside. As for a starting drill, Three or so pumps on the primer, then pulling while holding the throttle wide open got it lit for me (first pull most of the time). Would roar right up until the prime burned off since the carb wasn't working.

Paccity... that is a nice haul... the most two man saws from one source that I've ever seen!!

Speaking of hauls, tomorrow pops and I will be taking the Suburban and the trailer down to work with us... after work, we will be helping Lenny clean out his saw shed/barn...

Lenny is happy with my performance at work, stuffing those screens into PVC elbows, running the press so he can run the other one, assembling those panels, packing those little adapter/vent kits, etc. So, I guess I earned a bunch of saws, along with whatever my paycheck amounts to when I am done working there...

Hopefully there will be a bunch of interesting saws in there. Please don't start PMing the #### out of me... when I get it all home, I will be cataloging it into Excel, and with quantitties of each saw brand, and model. I will then be making careful decisions as to what I don't need/want in the collection... and I will offer them up on the classifieds.

Exceptions are Mark, Ron, Aaron, Randy, and a few others here... I will personally contact the others with PM's regarding saw parts and parts saws and ask whether they need them or not... The above three may holler at a whim with what they need after I state that I finished cataloging it all. Again, this is AFTER I catalog the saws/parts and stuff.

It will take some time to go through them, I imagine. The guy has run a tree service forever, and still does. That right there should mean a lot of saws.

He did mention old Macs... :msp_w00t:

I don't think I will need many more, if any saws after a haul like I think this one might be... I'll probably need parts and such, but definitely won't need many more saws...

I plan on fixing a couple of old ones and giving them back to him as a thanks, since he is literally giving it all to me... I don't feel right just taking it for free unless he insists I do, and insists on not being given a couple of good old runners. Some I will fix and sell, others I will save as parts, and yet others will be projects.

I'm envisioning our Burb full of saws, from the back of the front seat to the inside of the tailgate, and the little double former jet ski hauling trailer (now a hauling trailer with stake sides) full of them too...

We'll see tomorrow... I somehow doubt he has that many saws though... I hope I'm wrong, of course...

Shop Monkey gonna have a field trip tomorrow!!

Waiting for updates Shop Monkey!opcorn:opcorn:

 

[promac850]

Waiting for updates Shop Monkey!opcorn:opcorn:

Good news, instead, we are dropping the trailer off, and will ask if we need to bring another one tomorrow... my neighbor has a longer and wider trailer, but it has shorter sides... maybe if he says to bring it, I'll build some extensions for the sides out of lumber and put it together to make it able to haul even more...

Oh boy... even better news yet, Lenny says this barn was his uncle's, and also was his grandmother's... there might be some real sweet stuff in there... He says there is all kinds of stuff...

He says he will probably haul about six tons of scrap to the scrap yard tomorrow... I am going to do everything I can to make sure saws, tools, and good usable materials do not make it to the scrap yard...

We'll see for sure in a couple of hours, my dad is still doing a bunch of accounting right now, and his work doesn't end until 5:00... I start at 7:00, as does he, but I finish working at 3:30...

My pops works his ass off, though it is a bit more comfy inside of an air conditioned office while I'm working out in the 100 or so degree shop...

But, I am making some money... so that's good. Also, these parts and kits and such are NOT being made in China... that alone is priceless to me and many other true patriots in this country, and I'll happily work here for a wage that's just a little bit above the state set minimum wage to get some money, and with it, acquire some tools, and then I'll go on to find an auto shop or dealer and get a job there. That job will pay off college loans (really tiny amounts of money, since it's a CC.) These people that work in this shop for quite low pay simply impress me... they put up with this quite boring stuff, and keep making and assembling stuff here so it can be real US products that are sent out every day.

It'd be nice to buy a newer (or older) car or truck to replace the Mad Max. I want a truck, but my mom keeps talking about gas prices going up... guess what, I'll run a wood gasifier for the long trips, and regular gas will be used on start up and while the gasifier is warming up, then I'll simply throw two levers, and it'll switch from gas to wood gas. #### them self centered ego pricks in the gas price controlling business... I will be real happy to see their reaction as to what I did to not have to pay their stupid prices.

 

[Eccentric]

Good news, instead, we are dropping the trailer off, and will ask if we need to bring another one tomorrow... my neighbor has a longer and wider trailer, but it has shorter sides... maybe if he says to bring it, I'll build some extensions for the sides out of lumber and put it together to make it able to haul even more...

Oh boy... even better news yet, Lenny says this barn was his uncle's, and also was his grandmother's... there might be some real sweet stuff in there... He says there is all kinds of stuff...

He says he will probably haul about six tons of scrap to the scrap yard tomorrow... I am going to do everything I can to make sure saws, tools, and good usable materials do not make it to the scrap yard...

We'll see for sure in a couple of hours, my dad is still doing a bunch of accounting right now, and his work doesn't end until 5:00... I start at 7:00, as does he, but I finish working at 3:30...

My pops works his ass off, though it is a bit more comfy inside of an air conditioned office while I'm working out in the 100 or so degree shop...

But, I am making some money... so that's good. Also, these parts and kits and such are NOT being made in China... that alone is priceless to me and many other true patriots in this country, and I'll happily work here for a wage that's just a little bit above the state set minimum wage to get some money, and with it, acquire some tools, and then I'll go on to find an auto shop or dealer and get a job there. That job will pay off college loans (really tiny amounts of money, since it's a CC.) These people that work in this shop for quite low pay simply impress me... they put up with this quite boring stuff, and keep making and assembling stuff here so it can be real US products that are sent out every day.

It'd be nice to buy a newer (or older) car or truck to replace the Mad Max. I want a truck, but my mom keeps talking about gas prices going up... guess what, I'll run a wood gasifier for the long trips, and regular gas will be used on start up and while the gasifier is warming up, then I'll simply throw two levers, and it'll switch from gas to wood gas. #### them self centered ego pricks in the gas price controlling business... I will be real happy to see their reaction as to what I did to not have to pay their stupid prices.

Try to rescue anything and everything that's International Harvester related too. I might just have to promote you if you make the right find!

 

[Warped5]

Try to rescue anything and everything that's International Harvester related too. I might just have to promote you if you make the right find!

That would be cool! But MI farmers are sometimes a bit of a different animal .... Hardly any Deere up there to speak of, a lot of IH, A/C, Ford, Case and McCormick equipment. So chances may be good that an IH saw might turn up.

 

[promac850]

The majority of the six tons is an old Ford F-800 dump truck... he has cut the dump cylinder out, and is saving that for a project... it's about 10" or so in diameter... imagine the log splitter if he built it around that cylinder... he wouldn't have to cut firewood anymore... I did mention how I'd like to save the gauges and the badges, so hopefully they will pull them for me before they haul it off to be scrapped. (yes, it is very rusty, not much is left... motor has been missing for some time, trans is probably shot... it is a 1950's truck... windows are cracked, and about the only things worth salvaging are the gauges, badges, drive shaft, dump cylinder, and a couple of other things.)

Yes, the barn is big... he said I will end up with saws, snow blowers, lawn mowers and much more... tools are possible, license plates will be harvested and saved, and much more... might need to bring another trailer down... he will let us know if we need to, and maybe I'll borrow the neighbor's F-250 and drive it down there too so we only have on trip, and also the bigger trailer may end up to be more than our C1500 Burb would want to tow.

(the license plate on the dump truck is from 1979, last it was driven before some problem turned it into a parts truck, which is the way Lenny bought it.)

He said he's found stuff that he didn't even know he had!! Talk about that...

I will for sure be fixing up a saw for him, he is nice enough to give me all of this stuff, so I best give him something good back.

 

[promac850]

Try to rescue anything and everything that's International Harvester related too. I might just have to promote you if you make the right find!

I will call him tomorrow morning.

If he has some super rare tractor part and you want it even though you don't have the tractor to put the part on and I still get it for you means three promotions, right?

 

[Eccentric]

That would be cool! But MI farmers are sometimes a bit of a different animal .... Hardly any Deere up there to speak of, a lot of IH, A/C, Ford, Case and McCormick equipment. So chances may be good that an IH saw might turn up.

I don't think IHC ever sold a rebadged chainsaw unfortunately. The Cub Cadet name wasn't put on saws until long after MTD bought Cub Cadet from IHC. JD, Ford, and AC sold rebadged saws off and on through the years. I'm probably going to repaint one of the S25CVA Poulan project saws that I'm getting soon in IHC red/white/black colors with a "Tractor Man" IHC emblem on it somewhere. Probably will do the same with my Homelite XP1020, as it's extremely ugly right now, needs a repaint, and is somewhat of a frankensaw. Why not???

I'm even more fanatical about IHC than I am about McCulloch, Homelite, and old Poulan saws (if that's possible). Got a couple IHC Scouts and a '71 4WD 4-Door pickup. On the hunt for an International 300 Utility tractor and a Loadstar/Cargostar dump truck.

 

[promac850]

I don't think IHC ever sold a rebadged chainsaw unfortunately. The Cub Cadet name wasn't put on saws until long after MTD bought Cub Cadet from IHC. JD, Ford, and AC sold rebadged saws off and on through the years. I'm probably going to repaint one of the S25CVA Poulan project saws that I'm getting soon in IHC red/white/black colors with a "Tractor Man" IHC emblem on it somewhere. Probably will do the same with my Homelite XP1020, as it's extremely ugly right now, needs a repaint, and is somewhat of a frankensaw. Why not???

I'm even more fanatical about IHC than I am about McCulloch, Homelite, and old Poulan saws (if that's possible). Got a couple IHC Scouts and a '71 4WD 4-Door pickup. On the hunt for an International 300 Utility tractor and a Loadstar/Cargostar dump truck.

Here's a nice IH Scout for ya...

1979 International Scout II

Look and drool... :msp_drool: Me likey that Scout II...

 

[Warped5]

I don't think IHC ever sold a rebadged chainsaw unfortunately. The Cub Cadet name wasn't put on saws until long after MTD bought Cub Cadet from IHC. JD, Ford, and AC sold rebadged saws off and on through the years. I'm probably going to repaint one of the S25CVA Poulan project saws that I'm getting soon in IHC red/white/black colors with a "Tractor Man" IHC emblem on it somewhere. Probably will do the same with my Homelite XP1020, as it's extremely ugly right now, needs a repaint, and is somewhat of a frankensaw. Why not???

I'm even more fanatical about IHC than I am about McCulloch, Homelite, and old Poulan saws (if that's possible). Got a couple IHC Scouts and a '71 4WD 4-Door pickup. On the hunt for an International 300 Utility tractor and a Loadstar/Cargostar dump truck.

Refresh my memory here .... our neighbor had an IH truck from the late 60s something like a early 80s Suburban. What was it called (I am thinking Travelall)? Thanks!