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So you're working on cleaning up some storm tangled trees and it's tricky evaluating what and how to cut things to stay safe and not get a bar pinched when Mr. Helpful shows up in tennis shoes and a saw with the chain drooping of the bottom of the bar and wants to cut something, even on the...

--Why does gasoline (ethanol free) deteriorate with time and does storage in a sealed container help slow down the process? --Does modern gasoline deteriorate faster than, say, 20 years ago? --Does "summer" gas go bad faster than "winter" gas, or vice versa? --As fuel ages, does the octane...

Here's a few conversations with saw owners that illustrate how they kill or at least badly injure their saws. ----I like to warm it up good before cutting so I leave it on fast idle with the chain brake on until I'm ready to cut. ----I warm it up fast by just holding it full throttle for a few...

Does anyone have a link to somewhere that would give a listing for the models that were the last production from Homelite before the name changed to mean "small and cheap box store saw"?

Has shipping costs really gone this crazy? It's been a few years since I bought anything from Farmertec but $30.00 shipping for a $10 guide bar? Shipping to Canada has always been a bit high but I gave them a shipping address in the USA (Texas) and this was the cost. Might be cheaper to ship...

Unfortunately the chainsaw industry has ended up with two different chains that have the same pitch but are not interchangeable. Many homeowners I know have got into grief by not knowing the difference when they have ordered bars and chains off Amazon. To make it worse, many manufactures of...

I have never had one break on me, but I'm sure it has happened to someone. If you've experienced this, let us know how it happened and if there were any disastrous results.

Back in the days before chainsaws and diesel powered everything, wood had to be man-handled and there were some tools to make the job easier. Some of them were specific to use in the boreal forest (spruce, pine, fir) to help produce 8' pulp wood logs for delivery to a paper mill. Recently I...

As Canada will soon have alcohol in all grades of gas, many of us are removing the alcohol. The problem might be that the alcohol increases the octane of the gas so removing it will lower the octane number and could this potentially lead to the evils of detonation? Does this mean that if we...

With the Husky/Poulan strato that has been around for a long time, the only apparent worthwhile feature is better emission control, now Stihl would like us to believe that their version of stratified charge design will be the saw of the future due to much better emission standards, higher rpm...

Mine is the Poulan PP5020, one of the worst saws to get started I have ever seen. It comes with an E-Z start system that doesn't ever seem to work properly. When used correctly, the start spring doesn't kick the engine over fast enough to make a spark. The ignition module on these is marginal...

Recently I have had 3 of these saws with the same fault, the coils stop making spark at low RPM and you can't get them started. Up here the OEM coil from Poulan is $80 plus 13% tax, the AM coils from China are around $20 and I've had good luck with them for other saws but my luck has run out...

I'm in the process of modifying the timing on a saw so that I can use a coil not meant for it. This coil has way too much retard and in the process of modifying it , I could end up with too much advance. I've never ran a saw with more than 30 deg of advance so my question is, how much advance...

One of the most irritating damages is a mutilated chain tensioner, usually found on a box store saw purchased by someone that knows nothing about chainsaws and never reads an owners manual. Owner hasn't paid attention to getting the tensioner tab fitted into the hole in the bar and has...

Always had good results with their chains, advertised as "German technology", do we know who actually makes them? Stihl claims they are only manufacturer that makes their own chains, how about Husky? What about the Japanese saws, do they have their own source from a Japanese chain...

Cannot find an Oregon cross reference for a Dewalt chain and I don't have the saw here to just check pitch, links and gauge. Saw is a DCCS677 (20"bar) and chain is DW01DT620. Thanks for any info.

I have a friend that has a lot of big tree storm damage and as he has issues with gas chainsaws, he is thinking of a good battery powered one. Are there electric saws available that would handle a 20" bar in hardwood and what voltage would be required? How about cutting time on one battery...

We have recently had a vicious storm with high winds extending from southern Ontario all the way up into Quebec. It has become obvious that there are a LOT of chainsaws out there in the hands of homeowners and most of them know very little about how to use them or are even aware of the...

In a new housing project near me, all the plywood and most of the framing lumber is cut with chainsaws, my experience cutting lumber is a regular chainsaw leaves a very rough jagged cut, especially in plywood. Are they using different low kerf chains and different sharpening styles or are they...

Like to find a fully adjustable carb for the XL-2/ super-2. The replacement carbs that would fit are Walbro HDA-60 and HDC-65, also a Zama C2S-H5 but cannot find a source for them. The question is, do you know of any HDA or HDC that would fit and work with just changing the throttle and choke?