old timers what top handles you use in 70s 80s?
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I think vet and Jeffers mentioned something about top handled bow saws..
MasterBlaster
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If I remember the letters and numbers right, a cool green sa25 Poulan. No chain brake, just a little plastic knuckle blocking thing. It was the cat's meow!
I saw (used) an 020 with the knuckle blocking deal once. Must've been one of the real early models.
Toddppm
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We had poulans, the yellow ones. No chain brake, loud ass mufflers in your face as you cut and burned the **** out of you. They had decent power though. I remember a guy that helped do a side job had a stihl top handle, was one of the few I ever saw anybody use cause you had to be a high rolling climber to own one. Thought maybe it was a 011? Probably a 020 I guess though?
There were 09's and 011's (pretty sure of the numbers). Those were rear handled saws though. I think that was probably the cheap way out in the late 80's. They probably had 020's too, but they were always pricey.
TreeAce
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In the nineties I didnt have one. 020s was far to expensive for the cheapo SOBs I worked for. In fact I dont recall anyone having one that I knew either. I used rear handled echos n homelites mostly. My fav was a 028 super with a 16inch bar with the brake removed. LOl hard to believe looking back but it really happened. I cut a **** load of trees with that saw. It was handed down to me by an old timer. I one handed that thing all day long to. Just like it was .....well...my job. I highly discourge this practice now.
In the late 70's I remember my boss gave me a 16" Craftsman, then came poulan and echo. The first saw I bought for myself was a Jonsered 357, loved that saw.
Jeff
Jeff
54stude
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The mcculloch dealer here said that he sold a ton of pm6 mccullochs as bucket and climbing saws till the mid 70's.
ozzy42
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Your thinking of th DA. With the auto and manual auxiliary oil button up top? Yep,we used any of them along with the little 1800 and 2000 microns by pull on .
ozzy42
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Edit: micros
ozzy42
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Used homeliteXLs some also.
MasterBlaster
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I loved that oiler button! I wish all saws had them, auto or otherwise.
pro94lt
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You guys really are tougher than us younger ones I picked up an old yellow mccouluch top handle from the mid 70s with 1/4 pitch chain no chain break and absolutely no vibration dampening system. Need ear plugs under your ear muffs and it also has no automatic oiler... I was going to do a take down with it just to see but after a few cuts I decided not to good Lord it vibrates your whole body to tingling jelly. Muffler and spark plug both hanging out to burn also...
Were Craftsman saws respectable then (as their other tools used to be)?
ozzy42
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Toddppm
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Yup, some of the craftsmen were private label pull-ons. Forgot about the oiler button! When I first started on my own bought a few Homelite XL's and Super XL's? Big ones that could bust your eardrums in a few seconds. Cut slow but steady, beasts. Sold all of that **** on ebay when it got popular!
Never used one of those micros but used to see them hanging on the back rack of the migrant rednecks trucks sometimes.
Never used one of those micros but used to see them hanging on the back rack of the migrant rednecks trucks sometimes.
Some were a paint tank change. This Craftsman 1.8, which in red was the Kioritz CS 302 (so marked in shield casting above cylinder). ime, heck of a quailtiy saw with guts and an adj oiler that worked.
Showed up early 70's, replaced Homelite XL Auto, replaced Stihl 020 (or like ? it), replaced Mac6 that came out after 67. Warm weather, the last three might run and get you a tank or two first thing. Oiler was qt bottle. Chances were slim. Mac6 was worst of bunch, imo. Mac6 wasn't even a good trig, lol.
Most of the time, just quicker take up bigger saw.
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