Your Dad's chainsaw/saw's of your childhood

[canepole]

My dad had a stihl bow saw until it was stolen. Then replaced it with an 029.

 

[MERR6267]

No better place for my first post in the new place.

My childhood saw was the saw that my grandfather did all of his property management and cut all of his firewood with. I was his working companion on the "farm" every weekend and many days in the summers of my childhood. I've revived it now 20 years after his death and now I do minor cleanup etc. with it. Below is a picture of my son carrying it back to the garage (he insisted) after I had used it on some saplings in the back yard to make room for a mini-excavator while trenching tile over the hill.

Poulan Super 25 Counter-Vibe

 

[lasmacgod]

Firewood cutting used to be an extended-family affair, and the first group of saws I remember were the Stihl 009, 015, 024 (x2), 038 Magnum, 041 Farm Boss, 041 Super, and an 045, which belonged to my Grandfather and my Dad. There were more, owned by aunts, uncles, and cousins, but I do not remember what they were other than that they were smaller Stihls. Started out helping pick up brush and smaller pieces of firewood. Then I moved up to service, where I would swap chains and fill them with gas and oil as the saw operators would take a break. By the time I was old enough to run them myself, we had done away with the 009 and 015, and the 024's were replaced with 026's. The bigger saws lingered around a while longer, though they got used less and less.

 

[stihl saws]

I still remember thinking how loud dad's XL-12 was. He had a couple of Homelite 360s too.

 

[DSS]

I still remember thinking how loud dad's XL-12 was. He had a couple of Homelite 360s too.

You wanna fire up a C series homelite if you think an XL-12 is loud. Knock dishes outta the cupboards

 

[stihl saws]

Everything seems louder when your a little kid. Or do we just get hard of hearing from all the loud stuff growing up?

 

[dbittle]

My dad had a Poulan that would not start most of the time. He got a bow saw and we cut firewood and cleared land for a garden with that. That was the only saw we used for a couple of cords a year for supplemental heat. I was the wood splitter by age 10 and spent way too much time with that bow saw. After I grew up, I bought a Stihl 025 and learned how to work on it and sharpen chains. Then we bought a farm with about 10 wooded acres that needed to be cleared. I bought one of NMurphs 346's when he was doing them and a 242xp project from drf255 last year. My kids don't understand why I enjoy chainsaws so much, but they weren't there for the firewood cutting with the bow saw experience.

 

[petedaycab]

homelite super ez and a stihl 031av, then we stepped up to a new stihl 032 av electronic quickstop. we cut alot of firewood with those old saws. one of the few good memories i have of my dad......................

 

[fossil]

Lots of great memories! Thanks for sharing.

 

[cobey]

My dad had an older mini mac
I hated it when he started it, I always
Thought he was gonna chop me into
Little chunks with it, he was kinda mean
(He kicked my 1st tooth out)
I had a toy saw with a bead chain when I was a toddler, there is a pic of me trying to fell my aunt as she was pretending to be a tree.
Grandad had a 3-25 mac in 51 or 52
He had one of the first saws in that part of Kansas, around buffalo

 

[sunfish]

My dad ran Macs in the late 50s' early 60s' selling firewood. Later had a couple Poulans, super 25 & 245A. He put me in the firewood business in 1977 with the 245A. I ran that saw for over 20 years, was a lot of saw in a small package.

 

[Andydodgegeek]

These are indeed some cool stories. Neat to learn a little more about my fellow chainsaw enthusiasts.

 

[Wolverine]

I don't have any of dad's early saws, just the last one he bought while heating our home. An '88 Husky grey top 50. He always ran Huskys. This one wasn't used too hard and I can't remember what was before it. He loaned it out to a friend who ran straight gas in it.





This was the first saw I rebuilt. It led me to chainsaw forums for help. Really enjoyed the process and shared it w/ my son thinking he would eventually get the saw.

Took me a while to find the darn recoil badge to make it complete, but eventually did.

 

[Terry Hennessy]

 

[petedaycab]

growing up in the woods as a kid was good. a think alot of kids these days could benifit from good old fashion hard work.

 

[Steve]

My Grandpa used a Mac 6-10 and gave it to my dad when he bought his first house. my dad had it as long as I can remember. here is an illustrated story I did in first grade about the 6-10. then I got ahold of it and completely rebuilt it with my daughter a few years ago and yes, it still cuts wood today three generations later.

 

[Tpagel]

My Dad has had an 041 AVEQ and a West German 024 AVS one bar nut since both were new in the early 80s to feed our wood stove growing up. Still has them and uses the 024 for timber improvement to this day. He thinks his 041 might be faster than my 2156. I tell him it is not a fair fight.




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[Tpagel]

My dad was a great dad but not too handy, if you know what I mean. He worked for Western Auto for 40 years and he did have an old Wizard 110 for trimming the silver maples in our yard. When he died I got it and several years later it just died. Me not knowing anything about chainsaws at the time, just threw it away. Years later and many chainsaws that I built I wish I had that Wizard 110. It would mean more to me than any chainsaw that I own, I guarantee it!! Hindsight being 20/20 I think all it needed was a carb kit.

Is it like this one?

Say the word and I will put it in a box..
Cool thread of memories.


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