Thread: show us your chainsaws

Just buy a husky

Originally Posted by Brad S

Just buy a husky

Mate's husqy did a very similar thing very recently. He had to get in a new set of plastics, a muffler and some other minor bits that got cooked. His hand protected the handle, ha ha har. It didn't take very long from the front falling off to oh fark ow thats hot apparently.

I had an 026 that had an exhaust gas issue, the stock muffler or exhaust front was directing the exhaust gas out to the right and across the front right corner of the crankcase where the serial number is stamped. Ended up welding a little strip of sheet steel in front of the exhaust slot just to direct the hot gas back out to the front, which helped the smoking crankcase issue...

Originally Posted by No.3

Mate's husqy did a very similar thing very recently. He had to get in a new set of plastics, a muffler and some other minor bits that got cooked. His hand protected the handle, ha ha har. It didn't take very long from the front falling off to oh fark ow thats hot apparently.

Yup, I have a growing collection of Husky 36s (I refuse to admit that I have a chainsaw buying problem...)

One of the "parts" saws I have here has similar issue, not as terminal as the one above, but must have gotten a bit uncomfortable to hold on to

Originally Posted by ebf

Yup, I have a growing collection of Husky 36s (I refuse to admit that I have a chainsaw buying problem...)

One of the "parts" saws I have here has similar issue, not as terminal as the one above, but must have gotten a bit uncomfortable to hold on to

Had a few of those Husqy36's or the equivalent Josered offering the 2036 - they go surprisingly well for what they are and kept sharp/used within their limits. Prick of a thing to work on though, fiddly and everything jammed in way tight. The exhaust is a particularly pricky design if the fasteners carbon up as you have to split it to access the bolts holding the main body onto the cylinder. I dropped a nut on one of the ones I had to fix just after finishing replacing the fuel hose. You have to split the handle/tank and engine to get to the fuel hose, and as I found out you have to resplit the thing to get the dropped nut back out. Piss me off! I also managed to jam a bar on one misreading the load on a branch on a windfallen tree (next branch up broke under the changing load and shifted everything on me). The outboard clutch meant I couldn't get the bar off to get the powerhead out of the way to rescue the saw. That got fun really quickly, I ended up having to attack the tree with a real saw and start bucking it with the main trunk at eye level and had to strap the thing to pull it the opposite way to where it wanted to go. Not ideal, I'm a lot more keen on the Stihl-type inboard clutch design after that experience.

Originally Posted by No.3

Had a few of those Husqy36's or the equivalent Josered offering the 2036 - they go surprisingly well for what they are and kept sharp/used within their limits. Prick of a thing to work on though, fiddly and everything jammed in way tight. The exhaust is a particularly pricky design if the fasteners carbon up as you have to split it to access the bolts holding the main body onto the cylinder. I dropped a nut on one of the ones I had to fix just after finishing replacing the fuel hose. You have to split the handle/tank and engine to get to the fuel hose, and as I found out you have to resplit the thing to get the dropped nut back out. Piss me off! I also managed to jam a bar on one misreading the load on a branch on a windfallen tree (next branch up broke under the changing load and shifted everything on me). The outboard clutch meant I couldn't get the bar off to get the powerhead out of the way to rescue the saw. That got fun really quickly, I ended up having to attack the tree with a real saw and start bucking it with the main trunk at eye level and had to strap the thing to pull it the opposite way to where it wanted to go. Not ideal, I'm a lot more keen on the Stihl-type inboard clutch design after that experience.

A bunch of guys had a competition to see who could get the most power out of one of those saws, its worth a read. https://opeforum.com/threads/the-gre...ild-off.22910/

Originally Posted by ebf

Yup, I have a growing collection of Husky 36s (I refuse to admit that I have a chainsaw buying problem...)

One of the "parts" saws I have here has similar issue, not as terminal as the one above, but must have gotten a bit uncomfortable to hold on to

I ended up with four of the poulan version and a mate said he wanted a chainsaw to do some pruning during lockdown and I dropped off all of them at his house . Only one had a working chainbrake and he rotates it amongst them as they die one by one.

Originally Posted by Brad S

Just buy a husky

Got a few of those also.


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