Husqvarna saw production registry?.

[Huskybill]

i picked up a Husqvarna saw it’s a 280 or 380 not sure is there a registry of serial numbers that can tell me exactly what it is? Pics to follow. It has a black rear handle, push button stop switch, im sure its a “80” saw but looks like an earlier husky maybe dated a 70/80? The clutch cover is the same as a 480/298,285,1100,2100,2101. The piston and bore looks great the piston is wet with oil and has compression. Looks like a survivor. Possibly a Frankinstien saw built from left over parts.

Any thoughts?

 

[aswan]

Post a pic of it

 

[Huskybill]

One search and this came up production from 1974-1978. I don’t remember seeing these when I purchased my 2100cd.

http://www.barrettsmallengine.com/husqvarna/380chainsaw.html

Not looking bad cutting wise? ever notice these saws are so quiet you can hear the chain on the bar move?

 

[Huskybill]

Here’s the pics, I’m going to have left over parts when I build another 480. I do the same thing with husky vintage dirtbikes I bring the dead and forgotten about back to like.

 

[Huskybill]

At the sametime rather than another post I purchased two husky 285’s. Here’s one of them. It has tons of compression and only needs a stop switch. I’m fixing the crack in carb cover. We’re going to use webbing and epoxy underneath.

 

[Huskybill]

Why I’m doing this? My doctor gave me news today like there’s nothing more they can do for me. I need to play the hand that god has dealt me. So I stay occupied with saws. No problem I love the smell of two stroke in the morning. Lol

 

[Huskybill]

My newly acquired 380 needs a pull start, handle, the rear handle repaired, top cover, choke lever, bar and chain and she should run. These saws weren’t cheap when new.

 

[farmer steve]

@SawTroll

 

[SawTroll]

Here’s the pics, I’m going to have left over parts when I build another 480. I do the same thing with husky vintage dirtbikes I bring the dead and forgotten about back to like.

The rear handle design points at a 280 or 380 afaik (or possibly a late 180), but I have no idea which exact model or version (S vs. CD) it is.

Anyway, I attach the WS manual for that model family;

 

[SawTroll]

i picked up a Husqvarna saw it’s a 280 or 380 not sure is there a registry of serial numbers that can tell me exactly what it is? Pics to follow. It has a black rear handle, push button stop switch, im sure its a “80” saw but looks like an earlier husky maybe dated a 70/80? The clutch cover is the same as a 480/298,285,1100,2100,2101. The piston and bore looks great the piston is wet with oil and has compression. Looks like a survivor. Possibly a Frankinstien saw built from left over parts.

Any thoughts?

Not that I know of.

Generally Husky saws made 1984 or later can be decoded to the production year and week by the serial number, while 1982 and 1983 (+some 1984) saws has the year on the number tag - but before that I don't know how to decode the serial numbers into anything useful regarding time of production.

Some number tags have an "ASS"(embly) number ending with /yy, but that only means that the saw wasn't made before that year - it may have been made several years later.

 

[Huskybill]

Thanks guys I’m not exactly sure what it is but it’s an “80”.