Chainsaw pics and some custom items

mjsoldcub · #1 12-16-2016, 04:15 PM

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.

darkminion_17 · #2 12-16-2016, 04:54 PM

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

mjsoldcub · #3 12-16-2016, 05:10 PM

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!!!!

Sam Mac · #4 12-16-2016, 05:55 PM

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

john hall · #5 12-16-2016, 06:07 PM

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.

Billy-O · #6 12-16-2016, 08:09 PM

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!

J-Mech · #7 12-16-2016, 08:33 PM

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.

Homelight 1050.jpg IMG_20130609_165111.jpg

john hall · #8 12-16-2016, 08:47 PM

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Originally Posted by J-Mech

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.

J-Mech · #9 12-16-2016, 09:22 PM

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.

john hall · #10 12-16-2016, 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by J-Mech

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.

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