What’s the oldest saw you run?

[chainsaw-57]

Worcester's

 

[LuDookie]

Oldest saw I run for real work is an Echo cs670, used for topping and cutting creosote poles. It’s dirty cutting and it gets run weekly. The saw was my dad’s and I think it’s from 2008. It was in production firewood for 3 years when new and has pulled “ranch” duty since. Just in the last 2 years it’s been on creosote duty because I don’t like the mess on my newer saws. That saw is a bit of an experiment. The only thing that shows any real deterioration is the AV.

I have a 1981 Farmsaw also, all original except for cutting equipment, that gets cranked yearly and I run a tank through it cutting firewood just for novelty’s sake.

 

[North by Northwest]

Pioneer P-51 with 36" bar for softwood & 28" bar for hardwoods .

 

[2-StrokeDude]

Had a 1981 Stihl 041 AV Electronic Quickstop for a while, just sold it the other day.

The thing was awesome, former owner cleared over 30 acres with it and it still has decent compression. The saw sat for over 20 years after the flywheel fan blew up, I replaced the fan, had to clean some of the ignition components grounds, and then just to see what happened I put some gas in it and it started up after a few carb adjustments. I didn’t even pull the carb off and the thing ran! Pretty crazy.


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[Mad Professor]

My Dad's Super XL Auto he passed to me. Cut many cords of firewood until I got my first Stihl that had AV, 028S. The XL would beat the Stihl in wood > 20". Then I was gifted a 038M............

The XL motor has never been apart and it survived having trees try to squash it. It still will start up and cut.

 

[Buck Green]

Had a 1981 Stihl 041 AV Electronic Quickstop for a while, just sold it the other day.

The thing was awesome, former owner cleared over 30 acres with it and it still has decent compression. The saw sat for over 20 years after the flywheel fan blew up, I replaced the fan, had to clean some of the ignition components grounds, and then just to see what happened I put some gas in it and it started up after a few carb adjustments. I didn’t even pull the carb off and the thing ran! Pretty crazy.


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I have the same saw

 

[Wood Doctor]

This one is a year or two younger than my MC 610:

This is a Mac 605 Timber Bear. It also pulls a 28" bar. Don't ask me how I got those big elm rounds on board my truck. It wasn't easy. I was at least 10 years younger. Today I would have noodle cut them all into halves or quarters.

 

[Bronco]

Never mind the saws , look at that awesome Taco ,

Hilux's are the shitte !

 

[Kenskip1]

This is the older girl but she can Stihl dance.

 

[Lightning Performance]

PP455 16x24 bow

 

[sliceoflife]

Homelite 775g

 

[lohan808]

I run a 1972 McCulloch 10-10a. Rebuilt by me with an NOS motor. Slow and loud enough to wake the dead. Good for general clean up but got the nuts to run a 20" roller tip bar in the bigger stuff. That saw is a tough little cutter. Don't make em like that any more.

 

[chainsaw-57]

1960 Stihl Lightning. Run regularly.

1947 Mall 7 at engine shows.

HOS

 

[adedeluca]

1960 Stihl Lightning. Run regularly.

1947 Mall 7 at engine shows.

HOS

Homelite xl 12 gave it to my granddaughters husband Love it be no saftey stuff

 

[Bill G]

1960 Stihl Lightning. Run regularly.

1947 Mall 7 at engine shows.

HOS

Larry,

That is quite modest. I have a feeling you own the highest number of Sand Cast Stihl Lightning/Contra saws in the USA and possibly the world.

 

[ballisticdoughnut]

My Dad's Super XL Auto he passed to me. Cut many cords of firewood until I got my first Stihl that had AV, 028S. The XL would beat the Stihl in wood > 20". Then I was gifted a 038M............

The XL motor has never been apart and it survived having trees try to squash it. It still will start up and cut.

I picked up a Super XL Automatic a few months ago, needs the usual fuel system stuff but it does run. In pretty decent shape as well.

 

[snobdds]

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When you want to sell that 125...take my money.

 

[kevinj54]

Homelite Super XLAO

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[sliceoflife]

Homelite xl 12 gave it to my granddaughters husband Love it be no saftey stuff

Think she can do better, eh?

 

[sonny580]

SXLAO's,Xl2, 150, Eager Beaver's, 650 and 8000 Echo's, Texas mass. green poulan 041, 025, 009l,011's old 250's and every saw I own is old like me! lol!