Odd chainsaw powerhead implements?

[XJWoody]

It seems like there's a fair bit of fun to be had with a trimmer head (RC boat engines & blenders come to mind.)

Then that YardBoss vs Mantis brawl thread got me thinking...Why let these guys & gals have all the fun! What other odd (good, bad, or ugly) things can be done with a saw powerhead? The Lewis winch is about the only thing I've seen, and I suppose one could be similarly rigged to launch & retrieve targets at an outdoor range...but???

I'm thinking maybe to spin an old Air-Raid siren

 

[Bob Wright]

Echo had a hedge trimmer and a post hole digger that went on a CS-302. The Echo backpack blower engines make great model airplane engines and they just unbolt like a regular engine....Bob

 

[Stihl #1]

I can't remember who made them, but when I had my small engine shop in OK back in the '80s, a salesman came in with a line of saw attachments. There was a weedeater, a drill, an outboard, a little generator, and a pump. They all had a bar mount plate and a 3/8 chain with no cutters to drive the attachment. The only thing I bought was the drill, and I sold them off fairly quick, but never saw the guy or heard from him again.
I have an outboard attachment for a 08 STIHL, that supposedly came from Brazil. The motor bolts on top with the bar studs, and there is a plastic coupler that fits over a spur sprocket, and a trigger lever that fits on the handle with 2 screws. Now all I need is an 08.
So I guess if you are out in the Amazon, you can use the saw to drive your dugout canoe up the river to cut down a tree to make another dugout? But don't break the saw in saw mode, or you have to paddle home!

 

[dustytools]

From what my stihl dealer tells me, There was also an auger attachment for the 08 back in the day.

 

[McC]

There were some attachments for the old McCulloch 33 series. posthole auger, brush cutter saw blade on a shaft, ice auger. Mac saws were used to belt start kart engines too.
Scott

 

[jhellwig]

I saw a go cart with a saw engine once. I think it was a home made job.

 

[bigmac]

McCulloch 4-30 auger

 

[lawson's tree s]

i seen a hedge trimmer attachment for a chain saw on ebay don't know what kind of saw it went on. but it looked neat. only other thing ive seen is the winches.

 

[Farley9n]

Here's 3 pictures of an old "Blue" XL that I sold a while back. I never had it running but I've got a Stihl 020 I think with a similar set up that we have used several times........Bob

 

[deerlakejens]

I don't remember the make or size but in the early seventies I had a friend in Tomahawk, WI that flew an ultralight plane powered by what I remember to be two chainsaw engines.

 

[Bill G]

Most saw makers sold attachments. As Scott noted Mac had quite a few including battery chargers.. Homelite coupled the XL-12/SXL to augers, generators, pumps, trimmer, and others. Stihl did the same as well as others. I have a wide variety of the attachments. The one I like the most is the Mac 99 2 man saw coupled to a post auger.

Bill

 

[Diesel JD]

Before the Madsens site went down, they had a writeup about a guy in the UK that made a moped with the engine out of an 011AVT Stihl, but this was definitely a homemade job. I thought something similar with the motor out of an 038Magnum or 044 would be cooler.

 

[tree_beard]

Stihl currently make a hedge trimmer attachment for MS240 and MS260, at least for the european market...

Never saw the point in bastardising saws when you could just get a specific tool for task... Maybe if you lived at the top of a remote jungle mountain, and there was only one 2-stroke engine within a thousand miles, and you had to fashion different attachments out of wood, feathers and monkey spit... but thats where mail order comes in

 

[A100HVA]

I've got a weedeater thing that bolts to small chainsaws, right now it is attached to a Homelite XL2. I got it to fit a Mac 110, and an Echo 302. It has no guards, and is heavy, well made though.

It didn't do so well on the big dead weed in front of the house.

hey randy here's a drill for ya if ya need to put up some steps on that pole your lookin' up!

gonna build a look-out?

 

[bigmac]

I've got a weedeater thing that bolts to small chainsaws, right now it is attached to a Homelite XL2. I got it to fit a Mac 110, and an Echo 302. It has no guards, and is heavy, well made though.

It didn't do so well on the big dead weed in front of the house.

it might be good to look at what your doing so your not weed wacking
your feet :hmm3grin2orange:

 

[XJWoody]

Those are cool, but

I was thinking of odd things... home-made stuff. Even if they don't actually do anything.