Restored Pioneer 750

[Chris J.]

I'm envious.

 

[cbfarmall]

Wow- beautiful saw and restoration, thanks for pictures! Did you have the color custom made, or can you give the brand and color name?

The paint is eyeball-matched NAPA Crossfire urethane. We all know how well the color match worked. But the saw still looks good.

You want the codes NAPA gave me?

Chris B.

 

[heimannm]

It looks like Pioneer parts pop up out of the ground in NE Indiana in the spring time.

All we get in Iowa are mushrooms...

Mark

By the way Chris, that is one fine looking saw. If you get really good with the Pioneers I may let you take home an RA if you promise to fix it up all nice looking and everything.

 

[Miles86]

The paint is eyeball-matched NAPA Crossfire urethane. We all know how well the color match worked. But the saw still looks good.

You want the codes NAPA gave me?

Chris B.

Hi Chris:

If you have time, not urgent, but that color makes me want to paint something, very nice.

 

[cbfarmall]

It looks like Pioneer parts pop up out of the ground in NE Indiana in the spring time.

All we get in Iowa are mushrooms...

Mark

By the way Chris, that is one fine looking saw. If you get really good with the Pioneers I may let you take home an RA if you promise to fix it up all nice looking and everything.

Usually, I'm knee deep in mud around here and it's greener. This spring has been drier (and colder) than most.

I never turn down a good RA. There's something quite remarkable about that saw. So easy to rebuild and a pleasure to run.

Chris B.

 

[cbfarmall]

This is as far as I'm going to take this 750, with the exception of polishing the handlebar. The new chip deflector is obvious enough, but I also acquired a NOS primer button to replace the scarred up original and it now has an airfilter installed.

Anybody have any idea how I can slide the top grip back to center? I tried a heat gun on its lowest setting with no luck, but maybe I need to be more aggressive.

Chris B.

 

[Eccentric]

Great job Chris!

 

[cbfarmall]

After much deliberation, we put the 750 to some wood.

Here's Mark, waiting somewhat patiently for me to figure out his camera. He got the inaugural run on the restored saw.



Let 'er rip:

[video=youtube_share;0GvcJBmHHHs]http://youtu.be/0GvcJBmHHHs[/video]

 

[cbfarmall]

After a quick Mark retune:

[video=youtube_share;dEccCSGyZkw]http://youtu.be/dEccCSGyZkw[/video]

We noticed this thing has a nasty tendency to flood when starting. I'm going to pull the carb down and check the lever setting again and maybe swap out the needle/seat.

 

[Modifiedmark]

Chris done a fantastic job on this saw, and I was glad to get a chance to run it.

The power it has is awsome, its pretty darn fast and will give much newer saws a run for its money.

 

[pioneerguy600]

Very nice job on the restore, I have never had the pleasure to run a 750 but I did restore a 850 many years ago and it being a gear drive was slow but unstoppable.

 

[IEL]

I really have to get that HM fired up soon. Restoration is all finished, just needs a new in tank fuel line, the old one broke while filling tank. I think this was just the motivation I needed, thanks man!

 

[Modifiedmark]

Very nice job on the restore, I have never had the pleasure to run a 750 but I did restore a 850 many years ago and it being a gear drive was
slow but unstoppable.

I think Chris has one of those Pioneer gear drives.

You would really like this 750, its a lot stronger then the 610 I had.

 

[pioneerguy600]

I think Chris has one of those Pioneer gear drives.

You would really like this 750, its a lot stronger then the 610 I had.

The 750 was designed to be used as a medium size tree felling saw mostly for the West coast or the PNW as its commonly called on here. They are more powerful than the 600 series that was intended for use on smaller wood with shorter bars,the 600 series was a 1950`s era design while the 750 was a design that came some 10 years later on.

 

[Modifiedmark]

The 750 was designed to be used as a medium size tree felling saw mostly for the West coast or the PNW as its commonly called on here. They are more powerful than the 600 series that was intended for use on smaller wood with shorter bars,the 600 series was a 1950`s era design while the 750 was a design that came some 10 years later on.

Yeah I know that, I wasn't knocking the 610, just using it as a benchmark to show how strong this 750 is.

 

[pioneerguy600]

Yeah I know that, I wasn't knocking the 610, just using it as a benchmark to show how strong this 750 is.

:msp_thumbsup:

 

[cbfarmall]

The 750 was designed to be used as a medium size tree felling saw mostly for the West coast or the PNW as its commonly called on here. They are more powerful than the 600 series that was intended for use on smaller wood with shorter bars,the 600 series was a 1950`s era design while the 750 was a design that came some 10 years later on.

I would argue that the 700/750 is modelled after the HM saw. The layout is identical. Those 2 series are the only direct drive saws Pioneer made with the fuel tank over the carby. Of course, that's where the similarities end.

Chris B.

 

[cbfarmall]

I really have to get that HM fired up soon. Restoration is all finished, just needs a new in tank fuel line, the old one broke while filling tank. I think this was just the motivation I needed, thanks man!

Time to hop to it. Only took me 4 or 5 months to finish this thing!

Chris B.

 

[Jacob J.]

The 750 was designed to be used as a medium size tree felling saw mostly for the West coast or the PNW as its commonly called on here. They are more powerful than the 600 series that was intended for use on smaller wood with shorter bars,the 600 series was a 1950`s era design while the 750 was a design that came some 10 years later on.

Yeah I know that, I wasn't knocking the 610, just using it as a benchmark to show how strong this 750 is.

Don't forget too that the 750 was a result of years of refinement and testing with Pioneer engineers working in the woods all up and down the West Coast and into Alaska with fallers. Somewhere my dad had field reports from testing the prototypes of the 750 and 850 in the Queen Charlotte Islands (Moresby I think.) That was one of the motivating factors when he started buying the Pioneers as falling saws in the late 60's.

 

[heffer]

that saw looks great, i am debating on buying one right now..... non running but says it has good compression!