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i ahve a mac 250 with a 36" bar and i can't stop it. i don't think that a 16" will be any match for it but my all time favorite one in my collection is my running 1225a

i had a poulan 2750 get a piece of my left knee and i got a chunk out of my knee cap and 30 stitches. my leg was in a imobilizer for 2 months. not fun. be careful guys. one wrong move can make a mess of you in a hurry.

kickback will get you into a peck of trouble in a hurry. i had a saw kick on me and take a chunk out of my knee cap. left me with a nasty scar and cronic knee problems in the cold but i still have my leg. i am thankful for that. but it is easy to get killed with any piece of machinery if you are...

gotta love them old homelites especially the biggins

whell all i gotta say is take a look at world war 1 and 2. americans vs. germans. americans win :)

now the last time i bought one of these which was a year ago i paid 4 dollars for it. check this out http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=20538&item=2080666254&rd=1

i ahve one of those little buggers. neat little saw. i think they are about 4 hp gear drive, and had different attachments that you could bolt on to the front in place of the gear drive case. i believe you could get a wood drill atachment, winch, and earth drill. have fun wih it.

6 lb mall on pieces under 2 foot over that i use wedges and a sledge.

i made what i call a chain vice. it consistes of two pieces of angle iron welded together so that the ends that stice up are on opposite sides. and then i took a piece of flat stock and lined it up wiht the top of one of the angle iron ends that was sticking up and i drilled and tapped 3 holes...

man that was scary one guy was tellign you to use a carbide rotary burr in a die grinder to sharpen you chain. you might get better results with an angle grinder. the only real useful tip was using a drill bit as a gugue.

man i gotta get one of you guys to teach my grandfather how to cut a notch in a tree. i have ben trying for years but his idea of a felling cut is sawing the tree at a 45 degree angle right through the whole thing. no notch or back cut. he says it takes too much time and is a waste of gas...

i just aquired one of them this last weekend. it seems to be in prefect shape except for the paint and the rust on the bar. i want to try to get the old relic running.

i have cut enough cord of wood with a mac 250 to tell you that you will want to find a way to isolate the vibrations in the handels. you will get the numb hand syndrome in about 5 minutes

a friend of mine has a 2 man diston with a 7' on it. it was used on the county road crew for years the old beast starts and run prefect. the thing is a monster i have been trying to get my hands a hold of it for years.

whell that saw runs a tillitson hl carb which is a standard carb that was used in just about every saw for about 30 years. you can get the carb kits ant any small engine shop just get the number off the front flange of the carb where it bolts on to the intake neck it should be something like...

my first saw was my grandfathers homeltie 360. i love that saw. it was my first and i will keep the thing till the day i die. i also have his mall model 11 2-man. that is the fun one to run. just remember to take it easy when using a saw. having to make a run to the emergency room to have you...

if you can get it there is this degreeser/cleaner called big orange. it is sold by zep manufacturing. it is an amazing cleaner spray it on let it sit for 3-4 minutes and hose it off and it leaves the paint btu all of the greese and everything else just melts away.

long hard nose bars rock. like on my homelite 1130g it don;t car weather the chain is a rusted pile of junk or not it will pull it though and eat it for lunch

i prefeer the husky. i have a 394 and with a 24" bar it is just about unstoppable

yeah you gotta run a lighter bar oil like 10w or throw a little diesel or keroseen in the mix. i usuauly grind the top plate to 25 degrees cause you will get longer life out of the edge in that hard stuff