David Bradley chainsaw

[JeffreyZirkle]

Guy wants 100.00 for it. Is it worth it?

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[Remle]

I personally wouldn’t pay that much for it unless it was mechanically perfect and had a relatively new chain on it. Those 1/2” pitch chains are hard to come by.

They’re not a saw you’re going to cut much with. They’re very heavy, have no vibration control and safety wasn’t even an afterthought. You’re buying a curiosity and collectors piece, but not something you will ever use much as a woodcutting tool. That’s the problem with almost all of those cool old saws from the 1950’s. Go forward another 10 years or so and you can buy a McCulloch or a Homelite that you’ll actually want to work with.

 

[Freudianfloyd]

I have that same saw. Paid $40 for it and two other saws at a swap meet and it had been there all day and it ran with very little work if that tells you anything. I think they are only worth anything to a saw collector to put on the shelf.

 

[Remle]

I have that same saw. Paid $40 for it and two other saws at a swap meet and it had been there all day and it ran with very little work if that tells you anything. I think they are only worth anything to a saw collector to put on the shelf.

I paid $40 for my own David Bradley. The guy I bought it from said it hadn’t been run in over 20 years, but bit of futzing around I got it running good enough. On any other saw I’d have thrown the chain away, (the teeth are almost gone), but considering that a used one will probably cost me $100, I just sharpened it really aggressively. The rakers are extremely hungry and given how much torque it has and how slowly it runs that seems to work well.

 

[Freudianfloyd]

I paid $40 for my own David Bradley. The guy I bought it from said it hadn’t been run in over 20 years, but bit of futzing around I got it running good enough. On any other saw I’d have thrown the chain away, (the teeth are almost gone), but considering that a used one will probably cost me $100, I just sharpened it really aggressively. The rakers are extremely hungry and given how much torque it has and how slowly it runs that seems to work well.

Sounds like $40 is the going rate on these saws to me.

 

[Remle]

That’s about all I’d pay for one, assuming I was interested in it. I see some of those old 2 man saws for sale from time to time, and while they are really cool, what the hell are you ever going to do with one?

 

[JeffreyZirkle]

Nothing more than thought someone on the board would be interested in the contact info.

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