RIP SIMON C WRIGHT

[huskihl]

Hello friend.
I looked at it again. Possibly a 26" I mean there are some queer guys out there..haha
I have never bought a 26" or a 30" personally but bought everything else.
Yes it does have that whine to it. 'It' said XP T...
I was wondering. It definitely seamed to have a lot more rev. I am not am XT guy.
It did sound different in the buck than in the first video so I was wondering.
Different filing, different wood I guess..
The video of the 372 of yours that I saw recently sounded like the Simonized in the first video. whowWwhowWwhowWwhow
That's pretty sick . What you running in that? Ancient Chinese secret?

Nothing special. Just a woods port

 

[~WBF]

Nothing special. Just a woods port

Is that right. It was reeking a bit of power. I hate that..lol

 

[cfaller]

Yes that's Simon's hand writing alright.
His signature black sprayed heads.
Did he do the muffler? He would pry the top deflector up a bit. It doesn't look like she was utilising all her power. Or she idled a lot in the cold winters of Montana?
Possibly the left side screen of the tri port is plugged then? Leach the F—ck out of the low always and give it 13,500 for that build.
Simon would send his saws out on the conservative side. Walker's send theirs out turn-key ready to go. No instructions needed. I bought a Walkerized 372 and a Simonized Saw about a month apart. People would ask me how do I like my new saw.
I would always say.." It's like a hair cut, I'll like it in a week" As my Poppa would always say: The difference between a good hair cut and a bad hair cut is 2 weeks..lol
After 11 year running ported 371/372,, Simon's saw amazed me when I turned it up after a week. That was 12 yrs ago and I remember the scenery of where I stood.

It has a triple port exhaust on it and a 272 piston. He said run it at 14,500. I usually run it a bit lower then that since i go up and down in altitude around here.

 

[jed1124]

Sad to hear I really got a kick out of the sword fighting he did on AS

I remember one of the times he popped up on AS many years ago. Some of you might remember a member Indian Springs. He called out Simon’s claim to be a porter of saws. Simon told him to send up a saw and he would port it free of charge.
Indian Springs said that saw was one of the strongest he had ever run....
RIP

 

[sawfun]

I remember one of the times he popped up on AS many years ago. Some of you might remember a member Indian Springs. He called out Simon’s claim to be a porter of saws. Simon told him to send up a saw and he would port it free of charge.
Indian Springs said that saw was one of the strongest he had ever run....
RIP

I remember that.

 

[~WBF]

It has a triple port exhaust on it and a 272 piston. He said run it at 14,500. I usually run it a bit lower then that since i go up and down in altitude around here.

The piston is a single ring j-red open skirt or a 268 Husqvarna 2 ring. The 272 is a 52mm aftermarket head. He wasn't to warmed to that stuff. He said to me he could get more power out of the 50mm? He also said it was all in the 'porting'. He didn't really port the 372. He just directed the fuel to the sides as it has a short piston skirt and a longer fueling duration. He is not going to tell a faller that it's all in the port timing. That would be ridiculous. Heli riggers have twice the specs as a Faller to work with because that would be too much for our pee brains.. lol sounds about right

 

[~WBF]

Smokin'

 

[04ultra]

670 jred piston in a 50mm 372.....cut .050 dome ...Simon sent me a dozen a year ago.

 

[dustinwilt68]

Rest in peace Simon. Always enjoyed watching vids of his saws.

 

[Mastermind]

I remember that.

So do I.

 

[00wyk]

Got to be close to a 4 ft'er
28" bar?
Maybe same guy
XP T??
Xtorq.
Sounds different that than the dome

R.I.P. Simon

I ran that exact saw. It is a very strong 372 XP or XPW. 28 inch bar. That is Dave Keith in the video, a sawman that used to live near me here in Ireland. He is super busy traveling Ireland with a crew that does the forestry here. I haven't seen him in person in years, though. That saw in the vid there was much stronger than the Snellerized 385xp I went head to head with it on the day. Not even close. I posted a video of it about 8 years ago or so, but that accnt is long gone.

You can also see and hear Dave in the Husqvarna promo vid here:

Dave pops in to the arbtalk forum often enough still.

 

[Willard]

51 still in his prime, way too young.
I never met Simon personally but talked with him lots back in the day on ekka's Tree World forum, he had a great sense of humor.

Esophageal cancer is a tough one especially for someone who wrenches on and runs saws lots.
Three weeks ago a buddy of mine died from stage 4 lung cancer,only diagnosed a week earlier.
He was a strong young 65 year old who always worked and never smoked or drank. His whole life he wrenched on small motors at his dealership and fishing lodge. He was old school, never wore nitrile gloves or had the best ventilation in his shop especially in our long cold winters.
Everyone be safe out there, look after your selves.

 

[Yotaismygame]

From what I've read Simon pioneered or was well know for running the 268 piston in his saws. Personally I'm a huge fan of the 268 piston in a 372 and that's how I build mine.

RIP

 

[Willard]

Simon was blessed to live and work in an area in the PNW of British Columbia, Canada where Husqvarna ruled supreme since the early 1970's.
He was with the best whether they were heli loggers or timbersport competitors.
And all this would not have been possible without one man and his Pacific Equipment enterprise in Vancouver, B.C.

This is Peter "Husqvarna " Holmquist from a 1982 video. Born in Sweden, raised on a Saskatchewan farm as a boy down the road from mine and going on making a lifetime career in B.C.

 

[~WBF]

I remember one of the times he popped up on AS many years ago. Some of you might remember a member Indian Springs. He called out Simon’s claim to be a porter of saws. Simon told him to send up a saw and he would port it free of charge.
Indian Springs said that saw was one of the strongest he had ever run....
RIP

Yes Indiana springs.
Simon was announcing the opening of his machine shop as he parted company with C&L Supply. He wasn't the wrench. He was a specialist and only ported new saws. I believe that was 2011 and he started the thread "Simonized Saws" on AS. He was just putting his feelers out as he now had over head cost and logging crashed hard by 2009. A lot of companies went under. When he was asked to put up a video of his work then he refused and said I am just simply offering my services and prices, that's all. LOL.
I was looking for Simon's phone number and the Google search took me to the thread. I read 30 pages in 2014 and signed up to AS. It was painful to read considering 7 years prior, I had owned a Simonized 372 and Simon had said on that 2011 thread he had 1100 saws under is belt. At that time he had a legacy status already. What saw gets its own safety meeting on the coast? Just the Simonized 372. In 2007 he told me he did 200 new saws in 2006 and was was smashing the 2007 projective by spring already.
He did say in a thread that his peak was 273 new saws in one year. He filled an order of 16 Simonized 372 to a logging company in one week. He said that was a hard task. He had another thread claiming he dyno'd the 372 at 8.2 HP and figured that was pretty good for a 372.

 

[~WBF]

670 jred piston in a 50mm 372.....cut .050 dome ...Simon sent me a dozen a year ago.

Yes the j'red 670 open skirt.
There was 3 different pistons between the 266 and the 50mm Jonny. A lot of people asked on line if he used the 266 piston Everyone was on the door step but I don't think anyone nails it so his answer was always no. Are you sure about .050 dome? Commercially his are slammed with a 0.30" dome.
You still have any Simonized left?

Edit

 

[Yotaismygame]

Long thread about the piston swap on the other site that was started by trapper mike.

 

[blsnelling]

RIP Simon. Same age as me!

 

[~WBF]

Are you sure about the .050 dome? Commercially his are slammed with a 0.30" dome.
You still have any Simonized left?

Edit

I edited my last post. My thinking was backwards there. I said you would have to raise the cylinder with a 50 dome'r
He would have had do a .020 deck & slam.

Long thread about the piston swap on the other site that was started by trapper mike.

I remember being on one of them a few years back and talking to Shane. Formally know as "Westcoaster 90"
He said all the ones he ever pulled apart were the 268 two ring. The original Simonized 372 was the 670 open skirt single ring. My buddy owned a few stock 670 and he would get into blocking beetle wood of huge first growth Lodgepole (mountain Pine) as big as they come at 3". He said those saws would pulled. I have probably tried ever combination except the 268 piston.

 

[~WBF]

Had to have a laugh. I started Heli Falling with a company a few years back and the first day I had to go through an evaluation and worked with a BC Faller/Supervisor building a Heli pad. He was from Campbell River. We got talking and turned out he did a bit of a stint under Simon. His name was Yuri from eastern Europe. Maybe not to long after that, I came across an old thread about different trade/signature names from saw builders. So Simon was speaking of what I had heard already first hand. I guess They called Yuri's saw "The Yurinator"..lol