JonCraig
Super OPE Member
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- 1802
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- Sep 5, 2016
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- Location
- Tennessee
My dad taught me how to repair small 4-strokes as a kid. Briggs, Tecumseh, Seems he always had random push mowers & riders.
5 years or so ago, my father in law handed me his 041av and said “this won’t start. You wanna tinker with it?” It had no spark, and where I expected to find points, I found (what I now know to be) an SEM electronic ignition. Google brought me to AS. “There are whole FORUMS for CHAINSAWS?!?”
But what really started the CAD was I happened to search Craigslist for “Stihl Chainsaw.” There was a listing for what looked like a pretty big saw for $75. It had a broken rope. I was the first to shoot the guy a text and drove an hour away to get it. That was my first MS460...
Since then, I’ve gone through some phases, mostly “cool vintage” SXL 925, Poulan 245, then older Stihls (an all-original, low-hour 064 for $175), now I’m in a Hooskie phase... last saw was a 288xp, on the bench now is a 261xp that I’ve put a 262xp slug in.
Sprinkle in the ones that I fix and sell, and I bought my 87 4WD F150 with the “saw fund”. Should have seen my wife’s face when she came in the house... “what did you do?”
I describe the hobby to friends like this: it’s like restoring classic muscle cars, only parts are WAY cheaper and I can fit 20 of them in my garage.
5 years or so ago, my father in law handed me his 041av and said “this won’t start. You wanna tinker with it?” It had no spark, and where I expected to find points, I found (what I now know to be) an SEM electronic ignition. Google brought me to AS. “There are whole FORUMS for CHAINSAWS?!?”
But what really started the CAD was I happened to search Craigslist for “Stihl Chainsaw.” There was a listing for what looked like a pretty big saw for $75. It had a broken rope. I was the first to shoot the guy a text and drove an hour away to get it. That was my first MS460...
Since then, I’ve gone through some phases, mostly “cool vintage” SXL 925, Poulan 245, then older Stihls (an all-original, low-hour 064 for $175), now I’m in a Hooskie phase... last saw was a 288xp, on the bench now is a 261xp that I’ve put a 262xp slug in.
Sprinkle in the ones that I fix and sell, and I bought my 87 4WD F150 with the “saw fund”. Should have seen my wife’s face when she came in the house... “what did you do?”
I describe the hobby to friends like this: it’s like restoring classic muscle cars, only parts are WAY cheaper and I can fit 20 of them in my garage.