Thread: show us your chainsaws

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 Brad S

Just buy a husky

Got a few of those also.


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The cover on yesterdays muffler was a little beyond repair, cracked and distorted along the bottom edge and very brittle. The one above however, only had a couple of corners broken off.
So I tacked those back on, and welded a section of sheet into the gap on the edge, and now it’s back in business.


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OK I will bite..whats the trailer in background used for???

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 Micky Duck

OK I will bite..whats the trailer in background used for???

Nothing yet, but it will be a heavy duty tipper

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/

Power to burn.

On the second week of storm cleanup

I have met some exceedingly nice people.

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 7mmsaum

Power to burn.

On the second week of storm cleanup

I have met some exceedingly nice people.

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I had a mate down on Sunday to get him a load of wood. He had a tired little McCulloch saw. That night I suggested he get himself a stihl 261, husky 550xp or 562xp. Monday he messaged me to say he had just picked up a new 592xp for an absolute steal, due to another customer cancelling an order. It is way too much saw for him, but I look forward to helping him out by taking it off his hands.


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Originally Posted by MSL

I had a mate down on Sunday to get him a load of wood. He had a tired little McCulloch saw. That night I suggested he get himself a stihl 261, husky 550xp or 562xp. Monday he messaged me to say he had just picked up a new 592xp for an absolute steal, due to another customer cancelling an order. It is way too much saw for him, but I look forward to helping him out by taking it off his hands.


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Haha, upsize much? That's a hell of a home user firewood saw...

Originally Posted by 7mmsaum

Power to burn.

On the second week of storm cleanup

I have met some exceedingly nice people.

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Do husqy have a tie up with Tsumara bars now? Thought they got everything off Oregon...

Dang 7mmsaum, I run the 592 and it is awesome. Just put some bigger dogs on it. I run a 24" or a 36" bar on mine and it absolutely hauls. Definitely not your average homeowner saw though!
I will probably bring it with me to hawkes bay for a month or two to help out with the cleanup, if everything goes to plan. Can't wait.

That's a fair comment, on anything I've used bigger than 70cc the most difference I've found between disappointing and that good dopamine hit when sh1t just works is sharp chain (easy to get lazy and 'just one more cut and I'm done') and the second is the upsized dogs option. I'm not sure why the big dogs are so good, in theory the bumper spike should work just as well???

Keeping them in tune is another thing that helps, but I'm told the newer auto tune saws are really good in this regard and also self-adjusting for differences in sealevel to altitude etc. Some of the brand new saws haven't been that fulfilling, but having another go with the same saw after a few months and a good retune and some of them have been a totally different beastie. Quite funny how some just haul from the go and others take a bit of time to settle into their work and start doing the chainsaw thing for ya.