Thread: show us your chainsaws

Nice splitter Seventenths.

@XR500 @rugerman

Sadly the splitter isn’t mine, it’s a pure beast of a machine! 😎

Originally Posted by Seventenths

Here's my two saws I currently own one being a Husky 288 and a 495 and both are awesome saws but at the moment I'm looking at upgrading to either a 572XP or 395 so in a month I'll see what I get.




Last year I ended up ringing, splitting just on 120 cubic metres of wood because I got a little carried away and there's a bit of a long story to it. Sold most of it but also gave some of it to some needy families in the community as I didn't want to see them go cold especially the kids.

My boys helping with splitting



Borrowed a mates Stihl MS 881 (121.6cc) chainsaw with a 42 inch bar to help cut up a pile of beautiful macrocarpa. The saw is a beast to use!

Just wait till you have to resharpen it, more teeth than a great white.

Flapper disc on an angle grinder has those whisker sharp in a giffy!

Originally Posted by duckdog

My two saws, MS250 and an MS500i.
Just ordered a West Coast Saws bark box for the 500i, will be interested to see how it goes.

@duckdog, you happy with the 500i so far ? Interesting technology.

Originally Posted by XR500

Flapper disc on an angle grinder has those whisker sharp in a giffy!

do tell more ,technique etc sounds interesting

OK, finally mustered the energy to line mine up.

The old Echo is late-80s vintage. Much to my wife's disgust, I bought it at a genuine half price in Richmond when we were on holiday down in Nelson. For some strange reason, she thought a cot/pram/ etc was higher priority with the first baby due. Strange creatures.. Has done a heap of work and eventually got a bit temperamental and lost a bit of power. Given the amount of work it had done, I succumbed to a new Husky and that's been fine. A year or so after I bought the Husky, I was yapping to a guy who knew all about servicing saws. He immediately said "Betcha a carb kit will revive it" and sure enough, she's back to good health and it makes a great backup saw. I don't thrash it too much as parts are now an issue.

The 95cc Jonsered (a secondary Husky brand) I got low mileage second hand and it's been great. Usually lives with a two foot bar and that's a 3 foot one in the background which I use for the big macros on our life sentence block as well as whacking into bigger gums on my mate's place. It's also had a bit of use in a home-made chainsaw mill.

I look with itchy fingers at new/flasher models but in reality, they wouldn't do a single thing more than the current ones.

nice I have a little echo like that but doesn't have a chain brake, so it's more of an ornament now. I might line mine up for a photo session shortly

Originally Posted by 6x47

OK, finally mustered the energy to line mine up.

The old Echo is late-80s vintage. Much to my wife's disgust, I bought it at a genuine half price in Richmond when we were on holiday down in Nelson. For some strange reason, she thought a cot/pram/ etc was higher priority with the first baby due. Strange creatures.. Has done a heap of work and eventually got a bit temperamental and lost a bit of power. Given the amount of work it had done, I succumbed to a new Husky and that's been fine. A year or so after I bought the Husky, I was yapping to a guy who knew all about servicing saws. He immediately said "Betcha a carb kit will revive it" and sure enough, she's back to good health and it makes a great backup saw. I don't thrash it too much as parts are now an issue.

The 95cc Jonsered (a secondary Husky brand) I got low mileage second hand and it's been great. Usually lives with a two foot bar and that's a 3 foot one in the background which I use for the big macros on our life sentence block as well as whacking into bigger gums on my mate's place. It's also had a bit of use in a home-made chainsaw mill.

I look with itchy fingers at new/flasher models but in reality, they wouldn't do a single thing more than the current ones.

That jonsered is really nice, I think they were actually built with milling in mind. The 2094 and 2095 dont have any parts in common with the husky 394 and 395 .

Originally Posted by ebf

@duckdog, you happy with the 500i so far ? Interesting technology.

Had it for a year now and I'm very happy with it.
Great power to weight ratio and just revs like a rotary. Lighter than my mates 661 and not noticeably different in performance.
For what I need as a bigger saw on the farm its perfect.

Originally Posted by Mauser308

There were certain Jonsered and Husqy models that were very close, but as far as I knew the tie up at that time was simply that both outfits got saws license-built at the same 3rd-party factory. The Jonsered 2036 and Husky 36 shared a lot of parts and were very similar but not identical for exampe. Was it Poulan that was the other saw that shared a lot of similar bits? Can't recall...

The 340, 345 and 350 series saws have a Jred equivalent, so do the 346,351,353 , the 357 and 359 do too the 365,371 and 372 also the 385 and 390 . I think the last jonsered design was the 2051 , 2054 2055 series and they had some Husqvarna influence . I had the 2055 , were pretty good saws but the hard to find one with an oil tank that doesn’t leak

i dont have any pictures handy, but i do have a short video- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl66OO2c0wg
i have a pro mac 10-10s, pro mac 700 and a stihl 032av+quickstop that all run fine and dandy. I also own a husky 385xp which is not in that video

Originally Posted by Mauser308

Yeah, there's a Poulan series that were functionally identical to several of those - the 2036/36 series and a couple of others. Whatever factory built the Poulan saws was responsible for those others too, but as far as I can tell there wasn't any of the commercial split case saws in the mix...

Those Poulans are also sold as McCullochs husky’s and Jreds , outside of that they don’t really build any saws with the Poulan name . Shame because the last pro saws they made like the 655bp were awesome saws .

Originally Posted by Mauser308

@m101a1, no special technique. Just a cordless grinder fitted with a 100 or thereabouts flapper disc (set the grit according to the hardness of the metal). Harder metal like the 500 series bisalloy or hardtex whatevers will need a more aggro grit otherwise you'll be there forever and will run out of batteries.

Once you've got the right grit size selected on your flap disc, just run it up and down the edge at the right angle without a lot of pressure (let the disc to the work). Really controllable and easy to get a really decent tool edge. Double bevel edges, whatever you need...

I have a nail on the wall, and do the ride on blades a couple of times a season so the load doesn't get too high on the rideon's engine and driveline. Once each blade is tickled up I hang em on the nail and see where they settle, if they are totally on the piss I take another lick off the low side and try again. Normally only a couple and they balance up fine. Really does make a difference (until the missus tries to mow dirt and avo stones...).

I reckon he thought @XR500 was referring to sharpening a chainsaw chain with a flap disc.


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Originally Posted by Marty Henry

Just wait till you have to resharpen it, more teeth than a great white.

Only 24 teeth on this one


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