MY FIRST SAW! WHAT WAS YOURS?

[Plowboy83]

View attachment 552177 The biggest and the "nearly" smallest.

Man that looks bad wish you would send it my way have a big eucalyptus to try it on lol

 

[Colby Cain]

Hi All! Just trying to post and get acquainted with everyone. Hope y'all are having a good morning. I love seeing all these saws I would love to expand my collection.

Anyway, sorry for the pic quality but I just got my first saws as of recent and already I love having the freedom to go out and cut some wood! While I mostly am doing firewood, I started working for a landscaping company and I am learning to be a tree climber! I am very excited. There are pics here of a Husqvarna 61 with a 25" bar. The other is my Stihl 211 C-BE with a 16" bar hope you can see them alright!

Thanks all for posting these awesome saws!

Colby Cain

 

[fwgsaw]

my first saw cp70 bought it at a farm sale for 10 bucks boy was it dirty little TLC and it ran like a champ still does for that matter. After having it for 25 years now I probably can say it's part of the family.

 

[BlackCoffin]

Stihl 032AV bought a year ago....now I have many more and can't seem to stop!

 

[Swagetastic]

My first saw was this Husqvarna Rancher 55. It was the first saw i ever rebuilt, ported and muffler modded. The start of it all!

 

[Welllit]

Husqvarna 340 and the only chainsaw I've ever owned.

That said, I'm looking at a Husqvarna 450...

 

[stonecoldtractors]

My first saw was a little 35cc Poulan 3416 (I think. Can't exactly remember the model number)

It was a good little saw and it always started and ran good, just under powered.

Upgraded to a MS260 later.

 

[Marine5068]

hey to everyone... first post from little NZ. brought my first stihl today after buying Chinese saws and killing, its a second hand MS440 with 20 inch bar I know in the pics it shows different bucking spikes but its coming with a new set , mainly for serious firewood and some felling.. - mattView attachment 362865 View attachment 362866

I've got that exact saw. It's a good one. I use it for the bigger trees here in the woods of Ontario.
We have monster White Pine, Red Oak, and Sugar Maples here to deal with from time to time. Not to mention some huge Elm and other large species like Cedars, Firs and even some very large Poplar and some large Basswood.
It's a bit big for my everyday firewood saw so I also have a Stihl MS 291 as a "go-to" saw that I use for most of my firewood cutting.
What will you be using it for?

 

[backhoelover]

Frist saw was a poulan wild thing. My dad bought 50 acre that had a old cotton mill and some dams on it. We worked on it for several years. 3 months after we started cleaning up around one of the dams he ask me if I want to learn how to run a saw I said hell yea. We went to stihl dealer to get me some ppe. Was the best day of my life. Wish I still had the saw

 

[dor-moor hands]

My first was Grandpa's 032. I bought a used Husqvarna 55 non rancher and ran it pretty hard and when it finally needed some work my wife surprised me with a brand new Husqvarna 450 for Christmas. I then got an almost free Jonsered 630 and now have a almost free MS 441. I don't run the 55 or the 032 much anymore but the 450 and 630 get a work out. The 441 is finally running after some great help here. I move to Alaska in a few weeks so I am guessing the 441 will come in handy.

 

[rarefish383]

Just found this thread, I can't remember what the first new saw I ever bought was. I do remember what the first saw I ever ran was. It was 1972, I was 16, my Dad had just gone back into business for himself. He was climbing, using a Homelite XL101, and I was on the ground limbing stuff up with a brand new Homelite Super 1050 with a 36 inch bar. We were taking down a big Cottonwood. After a while every muscle in my body was screaming. Starting that thing wasn't exactly easy, no decomp on 100 CC's. So I grabbed a double bit ax off the truck to limb with. It would go through a limb as big as my calf like butter. Then I swung the ax through a limb and the carry through hit an other limb right below the ax head and snapped it off. I had to go back to the 1050. I was 16 then, I'm 61 now, and I think my neck and shoulders are still sore from running that thing all day. We had 2 Super 1050's, I still have both of them, and one is on the mill in my avatar. I now use a 660 for milling and about 2 weeks ago I bought an MS 170 on sale for $159. So, the 170 was my last new saw. Some of Dad's old saws and one of the 1050's now, Joe.

 

[oologahan]

Here on the prairie we don't have much need for saws, and not much for heat. My house is concrete block with full brick veneer, 14" thick, it stays fairly warm or cool year round. I notice the county always has logs at their maintenance barn about 6-10 feet log so instead of buying wood this year I hauled some big logs and cut them up. I bought the Super XL Auto about two weeks ago and the Super EZ Auto yesterday. I have 125.00 in both, the Super XL went through 20 large 20" logs like nothing

 

[rarefish383]

Those are 2 of my favorite Homelites. We used a lot of both of them. Our climbers used the EZ's and the ground guys used the XL12's and its variants. I only collect big saws now, but I'd love to find a nice EZ, Joe.

 

[ML12]

This was the first saw I ever bought. Had a scored P&C but it ran ok. Painted it up and now it just sits.



The first saw I ever used for anything was an old 1-50, given to me by my uncle.

 

[Dolphus Raymond]

My first saw was a Mac 10-10 I inherited from my grandfather.

 

[Ben Williams]

My first saw was an ms441 that thing killed me doing forestry work!

 

[jomoco]

My first chainsaw was an orange Montgomery Wards electric with an 8 inch bar, circa 73-74.

Pretty much indestructible, and dirt cheap. Then moved up to the 14 inch bar electric. Enough torque n reach to remove Phoenix Canariensis date palms with!

Then dice the stump into little checkers with it, before popping those squares out with a Maddox n Pulaski by hand.

There comes a time in every teen's life....when he realizes....he's a man!

For me that was after diggin a date palm stump outta the ground!

Nothing tears up a chainsaw as fast as palm removal. The Palm acid eats magnesium up pretty fast.

Jomoco

 

[ratman36]

First firewood cutter 100cc and 20" bar, I was a strong farm boy,lol. My dad gave me this saw.

Stolen if you see it let me know.

 

[hazard]

My first saw was a Stihl 044 in 1997. Still have it. I get a smile on my face every time I fire it up

Chris

 

[oologahan]

90 days ago I bought my first real saw, now look what happened.