McCulloch Chain Saws

[carybush]

Look What I Picked up today and it runs!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://i1018.photobucket.com/albums/af310/muzzy_1960/101_0581.jpg

 

[heimannm]

Any identification on that saw? Look to be a 1-10 perhaps?

When they are fresh, they are nice little limbing saws but the lack of anti-vibration means you may not want to run it all day long. And, make sure to wear some kind of hearing protection as they are notoriouslyu loud, particularly when that worn out muffler is blowing directly into your right ear.

Mark

 

[gmax]

Looks like it will clean up nice.

 

[carybush]

I got it started and went no farther its for sale!!!! make me an offer

 

[sefh3]

I posted a thread over in the swap meet but I thought I would try here also. I have 2 250's that I got running yesterday. The bad thing is I only have 1 starter housing between 3 of these style saws. Anyone have these covers laying around that you would part with? I'm also looking for a L and H needles for a Tilly HL63 carb. I have some spare parts for these saws if someone would like to trade. PM me. Scott

 

[briantutt]

Brian,

Your handle is is the mail. . . You should see it by Wednesday of next week I would guess?

Looking forward to video of the Devil Beaver.

Handle is here, good call on Wed. Video to come soon.

 

[heimannm]

I posted a thread over in the swap meet but I thought I would try here also. I have 2 250's that I got running yesterday. The bad thing is I only have 1 starter housing between 3 of these style saws. Anyone have these covers laying around that you would part with? I'm also looking for a L and H needles for a Tilly HL63 carb. I have some spare parts for these saws if someone would like to trade. PM me. Scott

Scott, I will be back in the USA after the 24th. If you haven't found everything you need by then contact me, I should be able to come up with what you need.

Mark

 

[cpr]

Noodling with the 1-82 tonight checking the carb, cleaning, and couple other things. It had tossed the chain over the rails on a pinch a couple of weeks ago and I assumed it was due to the cutting conditions... well maybe.

Turns out the output shaft is bent, too. Anyone have one they want sell? It's been overheating the left side bar rail where the chain feeds off onto the sprocket. I really don't want to continue putting my General roller nose at risk like that nor the 9/16 pitch sprocket.

PM me if you can help me out...

 

[GASoline71]

I let one of my buddies run my 797 the other day... needless to say he is now hooked on these big ol' monsters.

He said it was like having a "dirt bike with a bar on it" in his hands... He had never run a chainsaw before... so I broke him in easy with a "little" one.

Gary

 

[cpr]

Good for you Gary, he's "wrecked" for sure now!

 

[GASoline71]

HAHAHA... he sure is.

Gary

 

[RandyMac]

Good job Gary, sometimes all it takes is one shot with a big chainsaw and they are hooked.

 

[Terry Syd]

New 'loaner' saw

I feel a bit of intimidated adding to this thread - I just had a mate give me an old McCulloch that was sitting idle under his bench next to a 288XP. It is an 'Eager Beaver'...

It didn't run, but after emptying and washing the chain oil out of the fuel tank it came to life. I now have a new 'loaner' saw for when someone wants to borrow a chainsaw.

The bloke next door has 97 chainsaws, most of them Macs, but a few two-man Dissons and other odds and ends. He won't part with any of them. I'll see if I can get a picture of one of his Mac advertisments from the 1960's - the gal in the poster looks so hot that it takes you a while to realise that there is a chainsaw in the picture.

 

[leeha]

I let one of my buddies run my 797 the other day... needless to say he is now hooked on these big ol' monsters.

He said it was like having a "dirt bike with a bar on it" in his hands... He had never run a chainsaw before... so I broke him in easy with a "little" one.

Gary

Yep, Another that will be looking for big saws.
Those 797's will do it to any person that gets
there hands on one.


Lee

 

[RandyMac]

Yep, Another that will be looking for big saws.
Those 797's will do it to any person that gets
there hands on one.


Lee

797s have that full on raw sense of power, everything about them speaks of barely contained violence, they sound and feel exactly how they look. In my opinion, the SPs seem meek in comparison.

 

[leeha]

797s have that full on raw sense of power, everything about them speaks of barely contained violence, they sound and feel exactly how they look. In my opinion, the SPs seem meek in comparison.

I know what you mean Randy,
Although i don't have any experience with
working them in the woods. But when i put
my 797's and the SP's in big wood, I have a
much bigger smile with the 797. Just love the
old school looks and power the 797 delivers.


Lee

 

[GASoline71]

Not to mention they sound mean as hell!

Gary

 

[hoss]

I let one of my buddies run my 797 the other day... needless to say he is now hooked on these big ol' monsters.

He said it was like having a "dirt bike with a bar on it" in his hands... He had never run a chainsaw before... so I broke him in easy with a "little" one.

Gary

I guess that makes you our resident power pusher. 797's yeeeeehaaaaawww.

 

[hoss]

797s have that full on raw sense of power, everything about them speaks of barely contained violence, they sound and feel exactly how they look. In my opinion, the SPs seem meek in comparison.

Amen brother. Yer preachin to the choir here.

 

[GASoline71]

797s have that full on raw sense of power, everything about them speaks of barely contained violence, they sound and feel exactly how they look. In my opinion, the SPs seem meek in comparison.

LMAO... my buddy looked in shock as drop started the thing with the 36" bar resting on a log... I set it on the ground as it idled. He looked at me and asked if he could pick it up. I said, "Pick it up? Heck, you pick it up you might as well cut with it..."

So up it went... and he put it through a 32" Doug fir round I had there... he about #### himself when the saw pulled into that log. He backed off the throttle and I yelled to him to pour the coals to 'er. He pinned it, and that thing sounded like a Harley as it ate through that log. He was grinnin' ear to ear.

When we shut it down... he said it felt like "controlled chaos"... His words exactly.

He asked where he could get one... I already have him on CL and ebay searchin' for saws...

Gary