How long you been wrenchin' on saws?

[Motorhead]

First job I had was in a lawnmower shop when I was 17, worked on ope stuff off and on ever since,By the the way I'm pretty old.

 

[DSS]

When I was in grade 9 my high school still offered a small engine class. It was the last year it was ever offered. Used to offer a drafting class too. They dropped the drafting just before I graduated. This was about 20-24 years ago. How thing change. Now it's all computer classes.

Yeah, we could take welding, mechanics, plumbing, carpentry, bunch of others. They all died out except carpentry, and they started the mechanic shop again a couple years ago. But kids don't want to get dirty anymore.

 

[RIDE-RED 350r]

Me, I clicked the 1-3 years option... I have been doing my own basic maintenance on my own saws for probably 20+ years, but never got deeper into them doing complete overhauls and modding till a couple years ago when I found AS. I now do some side work for friends, family, and a local tree service doing everything from basic stuff to major overhauls. Now I'm here...

 

[Nitehawk55]

Started around 1976 , longer than a lot of you have been around

I should add that was chainsaws , I was already working on lawn mowers and changing engines in cars by the time I was 14 (1969) , the saws came later .

 

[Mycamaro_68]

About 2 years working on saws for me. Always been mechanical, growing up on the farm, then went to school for automotive technician, wrenched on cars for 4-5 years then became a millwright for a few years and now I am a maintenance technician for a pharmaceutical company and work on saws for friends and of course I am now battling CAD.

 

[redtractor]

I'm in the 7 to 10 but I need another survey that asks "How long can you say 'you know what you're doing'?

 

[Tor R]

But kids don't want to get dirty anymore.

you find them but there isnt many of them.
Easier to live on social welfare system incase they get tired of school

 

[exSW]

About three years. I never had the patience for small gas engines when I was younger plus there used to be good techs to fix them.
I've always liked making things run and run better. Saw are a cheaper and much lighter way of doing that. No more bench pressing transmissions by hand.

 

[Al Smith]

It was about 20 years ago when I bought this place that I got serious about .What started it was Lombard Comango from a garage sale for 20 bucks .I had it running good after about a half hour of tinkering .I had been around power saws since I was a kid just never wrenched on many .--Still have that saw BTW,needs crank seals at the moment .

 

[huskihl]

Like some others, I've fixed my own stuff since I was a kid. In the last 4 or 5 years I've grown a little more fond of saws. I grew up splitting and handling wood for or heat. I began to hate it until I put a wood furnace in my garage. Now, I heat my garage so I can fix my saws in the winter, so I can cut wood for heat for my garage....it's a vicious circle lol

 

[Simondo]

Like some others, I've fixed my own stuff since I was a kid. In the last 4 or 5 years I've grown a little more fond of saws. I grew up splitting and handling wood for or heat. I began to hate it until I put a wood furnace in my garage. Now, I heat my garage so I can fix my saws in the winter, so I can cut wood for heat for my garage....it's a vicious circle lol

Oh the sweet irony of it all ....I heat my workshop with wood so i can repair other folks saws to cut wood.

 

[Landmark]

Tinkered on engines and stuff for many years but got serious with chainsaws 2-3 yrs ago. Great thread @Adirondackstihl and i clicked like as if you dont have enough likes.

 

[Nitehawk55]

My youngest son picked up on mechanical quick and rebuilds saws and works on anything mechanical , my oldest is trying and managed to fix his mower a couple weeks back with me coaching him with text messages and pics

 

[beaglebriar]

I always had junk motorcycles and three wheelers when I was a kid. Dad didn't know *s-word about them and didn't care to so if I wanted to ride them I had to learn to repair them. I rebuilt a YZ125 when I was 14 or 15 and it ran like a scalded dog when I was done with it. I was proud as hell of that bike. I've done repair work off and on my whole adult life. It gets old sometimes because I turn wrenches all day then come home and do some more. I always fixed saws for my dad and myself but that was about it for saw work. I've really started to enjoy repairing saws the last couple years so here I am. Now I have 14 or so of my own and the wife's starting to notice..[emoji4]

 

[JT78]

Starting running chainsaws when I was 9 been addicted ever since bought my first saw about 10 years ago and the collection has just continued to grow since. Spend most of my spare time working on saws or cars.

 

[Mastermind]

Does it count when you took the same saw apart 17 times?

Stop making fun of me.

 

[Onan18]

Stop making fun of me.

Pretty sure he was talking about me boss, it must have took me seriously 12 tries to get the @$#& intake manifold back on a Kawasaki yesterday.

 

[exSW]

The last thing I had to do before bolting it on:
F'n Holley pot metal.

 

[backhoelover]

for all the older tech. are parts priced about the same for the cost of living back then or has parts prices went through the roof in the last 15 years?

 

[Nitehawk55]

The last thing I had to do before bolting it on:View attachment 34408
F'n Holley pot metal.

Never liked Holley , it seems they always need tweeking .