Chainsaw pics and some custom items
 

Hey I don't know if any of you guys work with, (I'm sure you do) chainsaws or on chainsaws, but here's some things I just thought I would share. I've been a Stihl fan for along time and know my way through a lot of their stuff(10 yrs). I also make some custom parts for mid range to bigger pro saws. I don't have any pics of my custom mufflers but i will post some in the next couple days, as I cleaned everything up and started putting some away for now. I take trees down in my spare time, usually by myself, mostly climbing and directional falling. So anyways, heres some pics. I also work on the 4mix engines, (this one ate a valve and keeper) as well as trimmers and brush cutters. I have some old American saws as well, and enjoy working on them, but nothing like porting a piston ported big boy Stihl.

leipsig saw works..

The dawgs are .125" stainless and come with all necessary hardware-$40. When I get the muffler up I'll put a price, there will be a core also. If anyone is close and just needs some help getting something to run, as it should, or how to bypass the newer epa super restrictive crap. I can make your saw/trimmer really run+proper tune, or extra parts, all the way to a good woods porting. Just send me a PM.

I have a stihl 024 av with a 16" bar, and a little cs 300 like yours with a 12" bar.

Oh yes I also work on huskys and dolmars and jonsereds and macs.....let me know if you need any extra parts for that echo....I have a whole other case, handles, crank bearings, carb etc....mine wears an Oregon bar now as the echo one delaminated 40' in a tree and pissed me off, chewed up the drivers on a brand new chain too....its a good climbing saw...love a 200t or even a 201 or 192/3 but just can't afford it!!!!

I'm all Stihl when it comes to my 2 stroke stuff. I still have an 015 that I've owned since around 1975.

We've got a 051 Stihl with only about a 20" or so bar. It was completely rebuilt by a Stihl dealer with OEM parts and hasn't had but a few tanks of gas through it since--and that has been 20 years. I rebuilt my 041 AV last fall with parts from a place called Little Red Barn or something like that. Crank seal failed and all sorts of crap went inside. Every body needs to overhaul a chainsaw once--I don't think there was anything left assembled besides the carburetor! Than goodness a friend loaned me a service manual.

Here are some of my collector saws.

I'm an 18" Stihl 028 Wood Boss owner. Had it since about 1985. I've taken down many trees with it...some of them 32" diameter. It is tired but still chugging along. Time for a rebuild......oh, yes....it's a keeper!

I have a few saws.... but my favorite is the one my granddad gave me. I have no idea how old it is, but I'm sure it's easy to find out. I don't use it unless I need to because it's just so dang big. I do have a 60" bar, but I've never tried it. I don't know it it would pull it. That bar came off a 1150 Homelite center drive. I have it too, but it's locker up.


Homelite 1050 Automatic, 30" bar. At 100cc's, it's a man eater.


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Why in the heck did he have a 60" bar? I've never even ran across a 2 man saw with one that long. That's a west coast item for sure.

Sorry. I wasn't clear. Grandad gave me the 1050 with the 30" bar. I bought the 1150 with the 60" bar as a package deal on other items. I did check to see if the 60" fits the 1050 and it seemed to. Chain was shot on the 60" but is ed the same chain as the 30". I don't know if the clutch on the 1050 would run it though. The 1150 was direct drive I do believe.

Either way, that blade seems a bit out of place for your neck of the woods! There are a handful of modern Stihls running around here with bars close to that size. I will admit the largest sawmill I ever saw in person was a double blade set-up at Mt. Pleasant Iowa(threshers reunion). Darn thing was actually setup portable! We just never saw any trees near that big, but the corn was really tall.:biggrin2:

I was talking to a chainsaw collector on the West Coast once and he informed me that all the trees back east were "twigs".:bigeyes: