Just a Guy that cuts wood
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I found mine almost under the spikes. ran a short vid now i need to move it from the phone.
Thanks for help. This thing is louder than my 655bp
Thanks for help. This thing is louder than my 655bp
old 040
old040
Your question brings back memories. In August 1963 our salesman Fats Herbert from the Cincinnati branch brought a promo type of the XL-12. We were dealers from 1951 to 2004. My husband was so impressed he said he would take 50 by the first of October and if they didn't get them by then to take off one saw every day On Oct. 3, they called and had the order at Cincy. All the serial numbers started with 150 and as yet I haven't seen a number any lower. We had a blue Buick station wagon and somehow we got all of them loaded into that vehicle. Had to remove a few from the box.
I remember him explaining to us that an engineer of Homelite worked on this in his basement so other companies couldn't spy on what they were doing. When it appeared most of the other manufacturers stopped everything and spent there time trying to copy it as much as they could.
Lombard did a real good job and Remington also. Hope this is of interest to the younger generation.
chainsawlady
Thats a cool saw I like the chain gaurdFinally had time to read this start to finish. Great thread!
Lawson, Power Products, Tecumseh all the same.
They made it near forever.
Post it in the antique saw thread.
Looks like they made at least 3 of them as I just came home with one tonight PHO and I've also got a Lombard commango as well, it's black and orange and looks like an xl12
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