nick 55
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You suck! Kidding of course. I would love to find something in the 5-6 cube range, preferably in green, but they just don't seem to exist in my area.
Nick
Nick
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zogger
Tree Freak
I keep looking
I keep looking at all the new manufacturers websites, looking for my ideal saw, which would be the "sharecropper/ hired on hand" level.....
homeowner..nope
land owner..nope
professional northsoutheastwest coast logger...nope
professional arborist...nope
As for "homeowner's" saws, I am imagining a buncha manhattan banker types in black or charcoal suits running some saw...those are the real homeowners...
I keep looking at all the new manufacturers websites, looking for my ideal saw, which would be the "sharecropper/ hired on hand" level.....
homeowner..nope
land owner..nope
professional northsoutheastwest coast logger...nope
professional arborist...nope
As for "homeowner's" saws, I am imagining a buncha manhattan banker types in black or charcoal suits running some saw...those are the real homeowners...
nick 55
ArboristSite Guru
Manhattan banker types pay people like us to use saws while they are busy playing golf.
And they ask if we can keep the noise down too.
Nick
And they ask if we can keep the noise down too.
Nick
All I can tell you is to explore all the places that might sell saws, small engine shops, country auctions and garage sales, places like that. You won't find anything like that much in the city or suburbs. I live in the suburbs, but it is the suburbs of a small town where we're near to farms and I even have a forest about 2 miles from me. I buy lots of chainsaws at a shop about 2 miles away also. Once in a great while you can get a deal on ebay but it will only be in a red, green or yellow color, nothing creamsicle colored.
zogger
Tree Freak
Ha! Golf...keeps the yuppies outta the woods, good enough for me. Same with "the big game" on the weekends, keeps all them folks outta the woods..
Anyway, you want a larger saw, what was said above, haunt the old shops, see what they might have squirreled away in the back room, look for a project saw.
Or just buy one from the classifieds here.
If I had several redundant extra I could perhaps help, but I just started this past year accumulating saws and parts. I still mostly just have projects and outright junkers, good for a few parts. I haven't got my personal working stash built up enough yet. Sometime though. Once I have two good real decent runners of this or that size I can start to think about moving any others. I like primaries and backups for all my working gear. Beyond that, I see little need to have 25 of the same, or extremely close to the same, saw sitting on a shelf.
Of course that could always change, but only if I opened my own shop, but then, they would be for sale there, so..that's how it goes. Just be patient. Took me over one solid year of looking around and asking to get a decent large saw score for affordable to me used. That was dozens of times checking out pawnshops, calling craigslist vague ads, all of that, asking around town, etc. I struck out two hundred times or better before I scored.
And you can expand your travel area to check them out. I have frequently seen people say they traveled over two hours one way to go check out a promising CL saw. And it is easy enough to check out the craigslist outside your immediate area.
The other way is just work on the side, sell some cordwood, (and you can get up cordwood with a 50, just take your time) and dedicate the money to a big new saw and be done with it. Five cords most anyplace in the USA will get you a brand new top of the line 70 cc something, with a decent bar and extra loops and all that. Five cords. Same five cords will buy you two decent shape used larger saws right off the classifieds here, or 2.5 cords for one saw.
nick 55
ArboristSite Guru
I should probably elaborate a little about me. I've only been collecting for a few weeks. I am just a homeowner that has four acres, about 2 and a half are wooded. I am a farmboy who had to move to the city because of my career. I was always good with cars, and i specialize in those fancy, fast cars kids have posters of in their rooms. My wife and I got this house last year and taking care of it, I realized I forgot a lot of what farm life taught me. We live 50 miles from downtown Chicago and there are fields of crops(not houses) all around. I do golf on occasion, but with us settling down and now we have a daughter, my priorities have changed and I want to stay around the house a lot more. Hence, my fascination with landscaping and caring for the hundreds of trees. Having chainsaws to tinker on and use allows me to just go out to the garage, and while it can be an expensive hobby, trust me, auto racing was a lot more pricey. I bought a bunch of saws from Joe a few weeks ago, and haven't looked back. I would love to build a 46cc S25DA since I have a few of those now. And even if I will never get my money back out of them, I would like to totally revamp a pair identically to sit on my shelf on the garage so my father or brother in law and I can take them down occasionally and make some sawdust. I have learned a tremendous amour form the members on this site and am eager to learn some more about these tiny engines, hopefully able to share my knowledge with newbies one day(but I'll never know all that Mark knows)
Nick
Nick
Watch out! A year ago I had 3 saws I now have 60! :hmm3grin2orange: About 50/50 running and will be LOL
Actually, if you do it right the chainsaw collecting can pay for itself...The 044 I posted a pic of is made up of mostly spare parts with a few new ones thrown in for good measure. I found the main part in a box of parts at a mower repair shop. I sell a few saws to pay for the ones I want to keep. Interesting hobby.
that's always the intent. i just can't manage to make myself sell any.
nick 55
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MEATSAW
ArboristSite Guru
Is it possible to convert/run .325" chain on a poulan 2250? What would be the appropriate part #s? I see that Baileys does offer an Oregon power match bar in .325 that will fit, but no sprockets...Any help would be appreciated.
One easy way is to buy several throwaway saws when you buy the good ones. What I would call throwaway might not fit others' description, but mine is to buy some of the newer plastic stuff for almost nothing and sell them and keep the more 'pro' designed saws. Some like the really old saws also but I'm not much into them. I like to keep saws that you would want to use, at least once in a while.
I am not positive, but you might be able to. I do know that the clutch is the same as a poulan 2900 which uses .325 . Whether or not the drum will fit right I don't know.
You could probably go with a rim sprocket. There's several on 'the bay right now.
I remember member KsWoodsMan saying that he runs a .325 pitch on his 2250. Bailey's sells a .325 pitch rim and drum setup for the Husqvarna 41/141 that wil fit my PP220 and your 2250.
MEATSAW
ArboristSite Guru
Yeah I saw that in a search I did but it gave no indication of parts used. A rim/drum would be ideal!
Have you looked at Bailey's catalog ? They sell a rim/drum setup for the 41/141 Husqvarna. You can also go to oregon.com and then go to parts lookup and click on professional . Put in the husqvarna 41 saw and all pitch for chain/bar. It should then give you the part numbers.
i interrupt this program for the following public announcement:
for those of you like me who didn't know it the Mission Backpack Drawing for the MS460 is underway again. drawing Christmas morning
http://www.arboristsite.com/chainsaw/184814.htm
now, back to regularly scheduled programming
for those of you like me who didn't know it the Mission Backpack Drawing for the MS460 is underway again. drawing Christmas morning
http://www.arboristsite.com/chainsaw/184814.htm
now, back to regularly scheduled programming
nick 55
ArboristSite Guru
Man, you have to make the odds for me even worse! I could really use that saw! It is a good cause and I hope a large amount of funds are raised.
Nick
Nick
The 3000 is looking better now. The new bar clamp came today and I put it on it with the new decal as well. I changed out the control tip on the bar to a regular tip as well.
These pictures look better as I got a new camera that I can actually work..
These pictures look better as I got a new camera that I can actually work..
