65 year old saw lives again

[Pioneer]

Here is the old 620 Pioneer running again, all 25 lbs of it! The first saw in the family, it has probably cut trees in the thousands. Now doubt the rings need changing by now, but it still runs great.

 

[Karla]

Nice chainsaw, and sounds really good too.

 

[pioneerguy600]

Sounds good, they like to run slightly rich, I can hear it load shortly after the cut or rev up. Our first new saw was a 600 in 1958, it cut a lot of firewood, pulp and logs in its useful lifetime.

 

[LoveStihlQuality]

Here is the old 620 Pioneer running again, all 25 lbs of it! The first saw in the family, it has probably cut trees in the thousands. Now doubt the rings need changing by now, but it still runs great.

You rock!

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[Del_]

Was Pioneer made by OMC?

Nice saw!

 

[pioneerguy600]

Pioneer got its roots started by IEL, Industrial Engineering Limited , located in Vancouver B.C. but was bought out by OMC and the manufacturing base was moved to Peterborough, Ontario. There the saws starting with the 600 series were made using die casting technology instead of the sand casting the older IEL saws used.

 

[cedarshark]

Kudo's for getting that old girl running again !!

 

[67L36Driver]

Fat Alice (IEL RA) is sand cast aluminum. 1956 (?)
She has a dent in her right butt cheek that would have killed most other saws.

 

[pioneerguy600]

Fat Alice (IEL RA) is sand cast aluminum. 1956 (?)
She has a dent in her right butt cheek that would have killed most other saws.

It seems the end of the sandcast saw was right around 1957 as the 600 die cast came out in 1958.