Homelite 719 value

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On The West Coast, Homelite was McCulloch's only competitor, sure there were plenty of off-brands in the woods, but there were far more chainsaws painted red and green or yellow and black.
In the mid fifties, the horsepower race was on, it got serious in '57/'58. The 7-19 was a response to Mac's Super 44, from there chainsaws got lighter, more CC'c, revved higher, made more power.
I'm a McCulloch man, I rarely owned anything else. I ran all kinds of Homelites, from relic class beltdrives to the last good mag saws made. The old vertical cylinder Homelites are excellent classic saws, well worth tinkering with and preserving. The design series that started with the 9-23/26 and later known as the 900s was one of Homelite's best, use of the old vertical cylinder persisted well into the 1970s. The 900 series geardrives were some of the best bucking saws I ever ran, spent endless hours bucking with a 900G, 72'' bar and semi ridiculous 9/16'' square bit. The amount was chips dumped out could bury your ass in wet Redwood chips, I stood with the saw well to the right and swept with my boots.
 
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