Thanks 2 dogs . Got a good story !
The very first one of these I owned was given to me by a bushler named Ralph Howard... John Ellison may know one of the Howard brothers ....
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. Ralph wasn,t the kind of cutter you worked close to ...... He,s no longer with us on this side ..... We were cuttin for Jesse Hull on PoW. . Our strips were yellow cedar spike snag #### patches that should have been left for Habitat ... It was real junk ...... Ralph had just got a brand new Ace Morgan hot rodded 475 Poulan Pro .. Basically a Jonsred in yellow and grey colors .........Ace wouldn,t open up mufflers He just wouldn,t . his saws were awesome ,but getting rid of the screen helped and when the muffler got a couple more holes in it it helped a little more .... Anyway Ralph was running this state of the art saw , he had real hungry ,but sharp chains and he wanted to get rich .. He had one of these large size aluminum ax scabbards with a short handled 6 lb Dayton ax in it ..... It really bothered him that his new , that day brand new saw didn,t make more noise than it did .... So he decided to fix that ... . Now if you are in a hurry , you can fairly easily take the face of the muffler off from most saws with the allen or torx wrench that comes with the saw ... lay it on a stump , take your bar wrench and a maggy , Big Bannana ,or 12" Hard head wedge and knock a few holes in the face of the muffler from the inside out ... then put it back on and be done in about 3 minutes tops . Done it a few times , I know ... Ralph was in a hurry .
.. but his ax was dull ,,,.oh well .. he put his new saw on a stump and took his ax and bashed a few slits in the muffler face .
......... He was whinedinon er . cuttin and he cut up a yellow cedar spike snag about 16" on the stump but for some reason it set back on him . guess he forgot it or something . anyway he worked his way out in front of that snag and fell several more trees when he saw a movement ,turned to run but was trapped in a bunch of brush with no way out so he real quik scrunched up like a verticle turtle and that spike snag came down right along his back,,.... It was only about 3 " diameter where it hit him and the ax scabbard with the trusty 6 lb Dayton in it .... It ripped the rivets out of the metal ... Gave his wedge belt a heck of a jerk . he got a slight bruise from his belt being jerked and a small scratch from a spike knot . Thats all ... When we had walked down to the road to meet the crummy at quiting time he asked me if I wanted an ax scabbard . I said sure why . he said he had broke his then told me the story and showed me where he was standing , they were snorkle yarding strips along the road we were cutting .......... I put the belt loop back on with some saw nuts and bolts of various types with some washers I bummed from Ron Hull ............. This story is true ! . I used that ax scabbard for a couple few years .. Don,t know what ever became of it ??