I saw this at sears, looks to have a alum case?

[Tractorsaw1]

Reminds me of red max - what was the price?

 

[cobey]

Reminds me of red max - what was the price?

179

 

[bikemike]

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Probably crap.....

Looks about like remington that menards sells or is it the mac

 

[cobey]

Looks about like remington that menards sells or is it the mac

Remington I think, doesn't look like an echo. bouncy, craptacular, springy, suck master starting system......
Has a nice Oregon chain, not a vanguard

 

[old 040]

Not a bad looking saw but the starter is hideous.

I'm thinking of buying a echo to R&D on, what's the best model to port? Cc's are irrelevant to me.

Not that I feel the cs 400 needs ported, they run excellent with just an MM and carb adjust, good enough that I bought a second one just because, but would love to know how much better they could run with a little "extra" work........Another echo I'd love to see go under the knife is any one of the cs4000, 4500, 4600 or the cs5000 series saws, these are another that run quite well with just very minor modds........

 

[Simondo]

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Probably crap.....

Iv come across near the same saw to service and bagged in the UK as…"The Handy" …"Qualcast".. "Timber Pro" but to name a few. They are woeful to work on and everything is as flimsy as can be in the chain brake and bar /chain cover department. They would drive you nuts to cut timber with if you are used to anything even "semi pro" IMHO

 

[KenJax Tree]

This might have been one of the best chain saws that Sears ever sold:



Several guys told me that this dang thing would beat the pants off a Stihl MS390. It's not sold there anymore and nobody seems to know whatever happened to it.

My grandpa cut all his firewood for about 15 years with that saw and after he passed away my uncle used it for about 10 years cutting all his wood with it. It eventually needed some work done on it so he just put it in a case and it still sitting there.

I don't remember what he paid for it but he got it off the clearance rack, the sales guy said someone bought it and it didn't cut right. As soon as my grandpa saw it he could see the chain was on backwards.

 

[Wood Doctor]

I do have a Craftsman 4218 resting in its case that I seldom use. It runs, starts all the time, and cuts wood, but it would never hold a candle to the one I showed here in two Pics. Not even in the same league, what Poulan started doing was making smaller, lighter, cheaper saws that they figured the homeowners all wanted. They stopped relying on sales to chainsaw enthusiasts and professionals.

 

[stihl sawing]

This might have been one of the best chain saws that Sears ever sold:



Several guys told me that this dang thing would beat the pants off a Stihl MS390. It's not sold there anymore and nobody seems to know whatever happened to it.

Had one just likie it, a 3.7. cut many a tree with it. Good ole saw. It was made by Roper or poulan.

 

[Wood Doctor]

60.63 CC = 3.7 cu in. This saw is almost identical in size to a Mac 610 Timber Bear. It was built during the same era. I have often wondered if McCulloch and Poulan were trading notes back in the mid-to-late '70s. Mac added a chain brake to their saw and produced this one:



Sears, with their massive distribution power, elected to distribute Poulan saws. Montgomery Wards, on the other hand, supported McCulloch. The Sears saw weighed about 1.5 lb less and delivered about the same power. I bought a Mac 610 back then, only because the dealer was closer than a Monkey Wards store and a smaller Poulan that I had bought two years earlier had already been burned out by one of my friends who straight gassed it.