Thread: show us your chainsaws

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.