Nik's Poulan Thread

[Chris J.]

I own one of "THOSE" brand saws (I assume you're talking about the "St***" brand). It accounts for most of the wood we cut every year for our zero-cost heating. It's never failed me. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
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If the 4620 works out, I may look into tweaking it a bit.

Which Stihl model are you currently using?

One thing that will immediately help the 4620 is to run a 16" b&c, then a muffler mod & a retune down the road. My PP4620 came as a AVHD, free, not even a tnak of gas ran through it.

 

[Mac88]

Which Stihl model are you currently using?

One thing that will immediately help the 4620 is to run a 16" b&c, then a muffler mod & a retune down the road. My PP4620 came as a AVHD, free, not even a tnak of gas ran through it.

025, stock 18". I bought it new, many years ago, to do ice-storm clean-up. It has since seen regular duty felling trees and
turning long logs into woodstove length for the splitter.

I read somewhere about going to the 16" b/c. I'll look into doing that, but there are times when the 20"er would
come in handy. My 4620 is not quite as new as yours, but the muffler is still shiny. I don't like the fact that it runs
at WOT with the choke half open. The 025, of course, drops back to idle as soon as you squeeze and release the trigger.

 

[jerrycmorrow]

picked up a 306A at the junk yard yesterday for next-to-nothing. pulled muffler and p&c are pristine. checked for spark and has good spark. starter rope is broken so can't pull it over but feels like decent compression (at least what i can feel by turning the flywheel). needing a fuel and oil cap. also, the bottom part of the sprocket cover upon which the saw rests is broken off so also looking for a sprocket cover; saw sits kinda catywomp right now. also needing a starter handle.

never saw a starter mechanism like this. is it really totally under the flywheel?
looking for IPL and shop manual too.
been wanting one of these. its amazing to me what people toss. got decades of built-up oil/chips so doesn't even look like the starter cover was ever pulled; haven't pulled the sprocket cover yet but expect it to be the same.
posting this in the "old iron" thread too.

 

[Chris J.]

Poulan 306A IPL...

http://www.barrettsmallengine.com/partslist/poulan306achainsaw.pdf
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You might want to add this to your favorites, Barretts has more makes & models IPLs available for downloading than any other site I've found.

Small Engine Parts | Barrett Small Engine

 

[jerrycmorrow]

Poulan 306A IPL...

http://www.barrettsmallengine.com/partslist/poulan306achainsaw.pdf
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You might want to add this to your favorites, Barretts has more makes & models IPLs available for downloading than any other site I've found.

Small Engine Parts | Barrett Small Engine

thanks chris. i've added to my favorites

 

[67 Mustang]

picked up a 306A at the junk yard yesterday for next-to-nothing. starter rope is broken so can't pull it over...

never saw a starter mechanism like this. is it really totally under the flywheel?

Yes, it really is under the flywheel.

 

[jerrycmorrow]

pix were requested. here they be:

 

[a. palmer jr.]

pix were requested. here they be:

Looks pretty solid and I think it will clean up well. Looks like a starter rope and a fuel cap and you'll be in business!

 

[jerrycmorrow]

Looks pretty solid and I think it will clean up well. Looks like a starter rope and a fuel cap and you'll be in business!

that's what i'm hoping. ya know? if it weren't for duffuses that toss perfectly good saws that need a wee bit of work i wouldn't have nearly as many saws as i have. more power to the duffii class. keep on tossing.

 

[RedneckChainsawRepair]

Well I have ran out of 372 huskys to build for now. So I guess I start on the poulans in the box. Hmmmm 425 or 475 to go with the 415 and 505

425

475

NOS

USED

 

[Mac88]

that's what i'm hoping. ya know? if it weren't for duffuses that toss perfectly good saws that need a wee bit of work i wouldn't have nearly as many saws as i have. more power to the duffii class. keep on tossing.

I got my Poulans from my BIL, who got tired of working on them and went out and bought a couple new Stihls.
I guess my little 025 made an impression on him.

 

[rms61moparman]

I own one of "THOSE" brand saws (I assume you're talking about the "St***" brand).

That is one of the brands I had in mind but there are others too.
It just amazes me that you can take two identical saws, put one in a Poulan case and the other in an orange, orange and white or red and black case and people will swear the Poulan is junk and pay four times as much for the "other" saw!!LOL

Mike

 

[rms61moparman]

I got my Poulans from my BIL, who got tired of working on them and went out and bought a couple new Stihls.
I guess my little 025 made an impression on him.

Improper care and maintenance (not talking about negligence just uninformed) will make a Stihl, Husky, Jonsered or Dolmar just as cantankerous as it will a Poulan.


Mike

 

[Mac88]

That is one of the brands I had in mind but there are others too.
It just amazes me that you can take two identical saws, put one in a Poulan case and the other in an orange, orange and white or red and black case and people will swear the Poulan is junk and pay four times as much for the "other" saw!!LOL

Mike

Improper care and maintenance (not talking about negligence just uninformed) will make a Stihl, Husky, Jonsered or Dolmar just as cantankerous as it will a Poulan.


Mike

I bought my Stihl after an ice storm made the private road I lived on impassible. I paid a bundle for it, but,
at the time, and under the circumstances there wasn't much else available. It continues to serve me well so
in my humble opinion it was money well spent. My BIL has run some of those Poulans for years. One used to
belong to his mother. Some were parts saws he purchased to maintain the others, due to a lack of new parts.
I've just been piecing them back together because I like to tinker, and they will make good back-ups and
limbing saws. Like I mentioned in another post, I took the AV parts of a toasted 2300 and put them on my Mrs.
non-AV 2000. She loves it. I agree, negligence AND lack of information, will pretty much level the playing
field, regardless of brand. Quality-wise, the 4620 doesn't hold a candle to my 025.

 

[3000 FPS]

. Quality-wise, the 4620 doesn't hold a candle to my 025.

Neither does the price.

 

[Rakoprtr]

I got a pp4620 with a 18 in b&c I use it as my truck saw besides the weight of it I have no complaints it's cut plenty of camp wood. And gotten me out of more jams than I care to count on a trail

 

[rms61moparman]

I bought my Stihl after an ice storm made the private road I lived on impassible. I paid a bundle for it, but,
at the time, and under the circumstances there wasn't much else available. It continues to serve me well so
in my humble opinion it was money well spent. My BIL has run some of those Poulans for years. One used to
belong to his mother. Some were parts saws he purchased to maintain the others, due to a lack of new parts.
I've just been piecing them back together because I like to tinker, and they will make good back-ups and
limbing saws. Like I mentioned in another post, I took the AV parts of a toasted 2300 and put them on my Mrs.
non-AV 2000. She loves it. I agree, negligence AND lack of information, will pretty much level the playing
field, regardless of brand. Quality-wise, the 4620 doesn't hold a candle to my 025.

Really?
Where does the Stihl excel in quality?


Mike

 

[Chris J.]

...I agree, negligence AND lack of information, will pretty much level the playing
field, regardless of brand.

Quality-wise, the 4620 doesn't hold a candle to my 025.

I agree with the first statement, but not so much the second (yes, I own a 025 & a 4620). If if the 4620 is lagging, it's not by much, and it matters even less when you look at the price difference. As Mike asked, list some of the superior qualities of the 025.

BTW/FWIW, I like my 025 just fine.

 

[3000 FPS]

Really?
Where does the Stihl excel in quality?


Mike

By the way is not the 025 just another clamshell?

 

[Chris J.]

By the way is not the 025 just another clamshell?

Yes, clamshell, & the carb isn't fully adjustable.