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Re: WELCOME
By: Ridgehead Date: March 11, 2017, 6:22 pm
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Hi folks,
Finally got round to signing up here having been dropping by as
a guest for maybe 18 months... can't quite remember how I found
you in the first place! Gotta say this site is a gold mine for
information! Over here in the UK there really isn't much of a
culture of repairing things when they go wrong, folk just throw
things out and get another, which is really sad. So it can be
difficult to find good information. So thank you to all you guys
who share your knowledge and experience here! It is greatly
appreciated I can assure you!
I have a few saws, I guess my main go to for my firewood needs
and general jobs is my Husky 346xp (oe), absolutely love that
little beast! Most recently I picked up a pair of 1988 Husky
2101xp's on a double ended mill. They had been sat above a
blacksmiths forge for over 15 years so were in need of a little
love haha! But they came at a great price and thankfully had
been stored well and really didn't take a lot to get going
again. I think my brother and me are gonna have fun with them!
Just couldn't leave them there!
Anyway, great to be here and look forward to talking with you
guys in the future.
Rick
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Re: WELCOME
By: Chainsawrepair Date: March 11, 2017, 7:36 pm
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[quote author=Ridgehead link=topic=2.msg76459#msg76459
date=1489278131]
Hi folks,
Finally got round to signing up here having been dropping by as
a guest for maybe 18 months... can't quite remember how I found
you in the first place! Gotta say this site is a gold mine for
information! Over here in the UK there really isn't much of a
culture of repairing things when they go wrong, folk just throw
things out and get another, which is really sad. So it can be
difficult to find good information. So thank you to all you guys
who share your knowledge and experience here! It is greatly
appreciated I can assure you!
I have a few saws, I guess my main go to for my firewood needs
and general jobs is my Husky 346xp (oe), absolutely love that
little beast! Most recently I picked up a pair of 1988 Husky
2101xp's on a double ended mill. They had been sat above a
blacksmiths forge for over 15 years so were in need of a little
love haha! But they came at a great price and thankfully had
been stored well and really didn't take a lot to get going
again. I think my brother and me are gonna have fun with them!
Just couldn't leave them there!
Anyway, great to be here and look forward to talking with you
guys in the future.
Rick
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Thank you for the kind words.
You notice when you sign in as a member you open the doors to
alot more boards and info you cant see as a guest. ;)
Welcome and share where you can so we can all learn.
Kevin
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Re: WELCOME
By: Chainsawrepair Date: December 27, 2017, 9:19 am
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Just so you know guest do not see all the boards here, only 80%
or so. Must be a signed in free member to see all the boards
like husqvarna stihl poulan dolmar makita jonsered etc =
sometimes. Bar Chain board too.
Its all free here to share sell buy and all members are sponsors
of the site.
Site is about sharing info and learning to repair your chainsaw
etc. As adults without all the BS.
#Post#: 85452--------------------------------------------------
Re: WELCOME
By: Midpines Date: July 30, 2019, 12:14 am
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This looks like the howdy thread.
Howdy!
I was visiting a friend and he had 6 dirty oily saws setting on
the ground. I asked, "what is that" and pointed at them. He
told me they were junk, and said I could haul them off if I
wanted.
I hauled them off. Got three 42 cc, and one 50cc Poulans, a 55
Rancher and a 455 Rancher. With a bit of cleaning up and 6 feet
of fuel line i got all of them to start. I'm going to give him
back about half of them. I'm going to keep that 55.
Three of the Poulans and the 55 Rancher are OK as they are. I
gave the 55 Rancher a full tear down and cleanup, it would meet
factory specs.
The 455 Rancher the one I'm going to give back to my friend has
crankshaft bearings on order and when they're installed it will
be fine.
One of the 42 cc poulan's needs a cylinder and piston to bring
it around.
That was and is fun. Then I dug out two old saws I had to see
if they could be fixed up, a Poulan 245 and a Poulan 365.
It turns out the 245 my dad had is cheery, maybe has 10 hours on
it. The Poulan 365 is a saw I've had since 1992, it's very worn
more than a 1,000 hours. I'm going to fix them both up.
Last year when my 365 became unmanageable with a bar stud
pulling out, a broken dog in the pull starter, and it was
beginning to smoke, I bought a 55 cc Echo Timber Wolf. I don't
like it very much.
The 245, 365, and that 55 Rancher are well built saws, worth
fixing. The others are fair running saws but throwaways after a
couple hundred hours.
The only reason I'm rebuilding that tiny 42 cc is to have a very
clean running saw to take up in trees for pruning, because a
smoking saw up in a tree where I can't get out of the fumes is
not enjoyable.
This forum has already helped me sort many of these saws details
out. Thanks!
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