MCCULLOCH The official McCulloch thread

[bigbore]

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https://www.ebay.com/itm/McCullough-Powered-Winter-Hat-/273692939971
found this one, a little different

Thanks

I had this work done by a local shop in my area.

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Ah, not a bad idea. Looks nice!

 

[fossil]

Uhhh..., re-heat to take em back off? LOL

Some of them can be stubborn. A small three jaw puller behind the clutch drum pops them right off with very little pressure.

 

[heimannm]

The crankshaft with no keyway for the clutch is equipped with LH threads, that way the clutch will never loosen on its own.

Last year for the town Christmas tree lighting we had an open house (4 December 2019) and one of the visitors said he had an old McCulloch saw to give me. Today he dropped it off.





I will give it a good cleaning and put it on display in the new shop, I already have a decent looking SP60 with the cold weather set up in the museum display.



At some point I need to find a tank with the tapped holes for the hand guard, or just sacrifice a tank and add some holes myself.

This one belongs to Ted (warped).



Mark

 

[heimannm]

 

[Dream]

The crankshaft with no keyway for the clutch is equipped with LH threads, that way the clutch will never loosen on its own.

Last year for the town Christmas tree lighting we had an open house (4 December 2019) and one of the visitors said he had an old McCulloch saw to give me. Today he dropped it off.

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I will give it a good cleaning and put it on display in the new shop, I already have a decent looking SP60 with the cold weather set up in the museum display.

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At some point I need to find a tank with the tapped holes for the hand guard, or just sacrifice a tank and add some holes myself.

This one belongs to Ted (warped).

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Mark

Some day I'm gonna have to get up there Mark.
Even if the Covid pandemic is over, I'll have to wear a mask to keep from drooling.

 

[northwest saws]

Very slick sp60! Not a bad looking sp60 that fella dropped off for you.

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[heimannm]

Keep in mind there is a one bedroom apartment in the building available for overnight guests.

Mark

 

[Dream]

Keep in mind there is a one bedroom apartment in the building available for overnight guests.

Mark

Probably couldnt sleep there Mark. So close to all of that goodness, id be up all night just looking, reading, etc.

 

[Dream]

The crankshaft with no keyway for the clutch is equipped with LH threads, that way the clutch will never loosen on its own.

Last year for the town Christmas tree lighting we had an open house (4 December 2019) and one of the visitors said he had an old McCulloch saw to give me. Today he dropped it off.

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I will give it a good cleaning and put it on display in the new shop, I already have a decent looking SP60 with the cold weather set up in the museum display.

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At some point I need to find a tank with the tapped holes for the hand guard, or just sacrifice a tank and add some holes myself.

This one belongs to Ted (warped).

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Mark

I bet it'll clean up nicely. I like seeing them in their "work clothes". Tells a story of how they were used.

 

[Al Smith]

Those old work horses like that 60 just get set out to pasture .Surprisingly more times than not really not much is wrong with them .

 

[heimannm]

I took the junk yard dog SP125 out for a test cut today, clutch came loose in the first cut so I had to re-torque it. After that I made several cuts in a 30" ash log and it feels pretty good. My friend has an 075/076 in pretty good shape that could not come close to keeping up.

One day soon I will tear it all down again to install the better parts I have located and put it together for real. I am thinking I will take my regular work saw and give it a good cleaning, then put it in the museum for now.

Mark

 

[Al Smith]

Some years back Kevin ( Cut for fun ) and I went to southern Indiana to a GTG .There was both an 075 and an 076 that showed up .I ran both of them .They had enough grunt but not the speed of a 125 Mac was my take on that .
The guy who owned them ran both my 125 plus the avatar saw. He was a little apprehensive when he pulled the trigger on those saws .

 

[PogoInTheWoods]

Apples and oranges and not even a fair fight. The Stihls would understandably fall short for any number of reasons -- not the least of which are 11cc's less displacement combined with around 1,000 ~ 1,500 fewer rpm's at the top end -- and likely giving up 1/4 ~ 1/2 hp to the 125 as well. That said, the 1111 saws are nothing to sneeze at in their own right. If I can't have an SP125, I'd gladly take an 075/076 instead..., but still probably grab my 066 or 390 for big wood anyway just to spare my back if nothing else!

 

[Bigmac]

My 076 is a turd, I have tried to give it a chance! Put a new piston and rings, did a base gasket delete has good comp, still a turd! My homelite 750 will run circles around it! And the 125 is on another level still, and my stock 125c is nothing special. JJ has some really strong 125’s that make my c feel weak.
I hear guys say they have really strong 075/076’s, so I have hope for the model, mine is a turd!

 

[Al Smith]

The big redwood slayers are cool until you run one a half a day .I did on the biggest soft maple ( 54") I've ever seen with that 48" bar on the avatar saw .Every cut I was left standing in 16" of chips ..It's the only time I ever remember on just one saw burning through nearly 2 gallons of fuel .Just think about those old coots doing that every day . I was plumb tuckered out and I was lot younger then .The saving grace is it was green felled hazard tree and that mile long chain didn't require a refile .The 16" cuts were so heavy they had to be split with wedges before they could be moved .
Had two guys swinging sledge hammers and 4 on two different splitters .The wood went to an old bud who left part of himself in Viet Nam another one of many .That said the old boy had one huge stack of wood and we drank a bunch of beer at the end of the day .

 

[sawfun]

My 076 is a turd, I have tried to give it a chance! Put a new piston and rings, did a base gasket delete has good comp, still a turd! My homelite 750 will run circles around it! And the 125 is on another level still, and my stock 125c is nothing special. JJ has some really strong 125’s that make my c feel weak.
I hear guys say they have really strong 075/076’s, so I have hope for the model, mine is a turd!

Some 076's are better than others for no reason I could figure. Ive been told the muffler has a lot to do with it, I dunno. I've had two 076 supers in identical condition and one was a real dog, even with a 36" bar, the other pulled a 60" bar buried with no issues at all and my have pulled a 72". Neither come close to a 125 nor does a stock 088, 750, 2100 Homie, or 111S. A 090 does, but only when the bar gets 60" or longer. And the 125 balances and handles better than the afore mentioned IMHO.

 

[Al Smith]

It's a tad bit off topic but on another thread I've been testing several saws of the same displacement just for a reference .My next set was to be a Mac 125,the avatar saw, a Homelite 2100s and an 084 Stihl .
It dawned to me I'm down to 20" logs and those won't even put a load on a large displacement saw .That's going to have to wait but I do have another dead shag bark that is around 36" I'll have to use the dozer to recover the log and that won't happen until later next late spring .The skid loader won't even budge that one .

 

[Maintenance Chief]

I find the ProMac 800 a little deceptively fast in wood, I'm using a 28" with skip and an 8 pin sprocket but I'm thinking of full comp chain might be the way to go even with the 8 pin.
Its weird but a more modern saw sounds like its moving more wood but its not?

 

[Bigmac]

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It's a tad bit off topic but on another thread I've been testing several saws of the same displacement just for a reference .My next set was to be a Mac 125,the avatar saw, a Homelite 2100s and an 084 Stihl .
It dawned to me I'm down to 20" logs and those won't even put a load on a large displacement saw .That's going to have to wait but I do have another dead shag bark that is around 36" I'll have to use the dozer to recover the log and that won't happen until later next late spring .The skid loader won't even budge that one .

Can you post a link to that thread Al?

 

[Bigmac]

Some 076's are better than others for no reason I could figure. Ive been told the muffler has a lot to do with it, I dunno. I've had two 076 supers in identical condition and one was a real dog, even with a 36" bar, the other pulled a 60" bar buried with no issues at all and my have pulled a 72". Neither come close to a 125 nor does a stock 088, 750, 2100 Homie, or 111S. A 090 does, but only when the bar gets 60" or longer. And the 125 balances and handles better than the afore mentioned IMHO.

I would love to find out why some are dogs, I have heard some run good thou, so I haven’t given up all hope, but I may just sell it, I just won’t use it! It’s so disappointing! Lol