Partner chain saw owners?

[harpersend]

The clamshell Husqvarna 41, 45, 49, and their Jonsered counterparts were also Partner / Pioneer designs, if my memory serves me well...

 

[bowtechmadman]

I have a few Partners...favorite is the 5000plus followed by P1000. I think they were a bit ahead of their time with that model. Growing up Dad ran a S65 and later 7000, first saws I ran as a kid.

 

[wcorey]

The cylinder on my s65 is an open port, with a bridged intake port.

I have a few different closed port configurations, all bottom fed. I had no idea they even did an open port in 65cc, have only seen that on 55cc.

 

[cus_deluxe]

Sure did, got saw from kevin smith, appeared to be all original.

 

[Huskybill]

In the beginning of speed cutting at the fair amongst the local loggers one Swede brought his daughter with a toaster partner. I lost to her with the 2100. I was new but she was a purdy little gal.

 

[THORIN CORLISS]

Got given this Pioneer / Partner this week. Sitting next to my 610 Mac it's a bit bigger but a lot heavier, needs a lower handle support assy but runs really well.

 

[Huskvarna hotellgäst]

Got given this Pioneer / Partner this week. Sitting next to my 610 Mac it's a bit bigger but a lot heavier, needs a lower handle support assy but runs really well.

All Pioneer, that one!

 

[Huskvarna hotellgäst]

The clamshell Husqvarna 41, 45, 49, and their Jonsered counterparts were also Partner / Pioneer designs, if my memory serves me well...

40, 45 & 49 were all based on the purely Partner designed 400, which then became the Pioneer/Partner 400 in North America in 1987,
Husky 41 is a completely different saw.

 

[Huskybill]

It’s about time we bring the partners to the forefront. I think there’s plenty of collectible pioneer partners to go around.

 

[SawTroll]

The 'real' ones were, partner merged with pioneer, both were acquired in the electrolux buyout binge along with seemingly half the chainsaw industry and then many were sort of integrated into each other. Husqvarna became kind of the 'pure' flagship brand in the electrolux stable and everyone else got parceled around a bit. Jonsered and partner seemed to particularly get co mingled along with a handful of poulan re-brands and were built in the same factory/factories in sweden.

I have 8 or 10 of the partner 'toaster' type saws as well as a bunch in the 5000+ family (jonsereds 490/590, pp325).
Both can have a lot of variation in model designations and features and can be a bit confusing to sort out sometimes.
Then also a couple jonsered/poulan's that were originally partner design, a 2083 and pp475.
I like 'em all and pick them up when close by and cheap.

Poulans got mingled into the Husky lineup as well (as did the small Canadian (Trail/Frontier) before that), but not to the same degree as with Partner. Some Partner saws sold in Europe in the 2000s (+/-) were made in Italy as well, at what had used to be the European McCulloch factory.
As I recall it, the only Partners still made in Sweden to the bitter end of the brand were the P500/5000 related ones (made at the Husky factory from 1987) - after the end of the P7700-family in the early 2000s.

 

[SawTroll]

The clamshell Husqvarna 41, 45, 49, and their Jonsered counterparts were also Partner / Pioneer designs, if my memory serves me well...

The design had nothing to do with Pioneer, it was pure Partner.

Actually, the Pioneer/Partner thing was "name only" (just a sales and marketing effort) and only happened in North America that I know - none of the P/P branded saws were a result of a common design and/or production effort between those two brands.

 

[Jeff Lary]

Yes I have a few....

 

[Cliff R]

Cool. Any idea where I can get an air filter for one? Had one in here couple of weeks ago for repair, got it running but couldn't find an air filter for it.

https://store.chainsawr.com/collect...ir-filter-new-replace-part-505-315475-box-516

 

[Huskvarna hotellgäst]

Yes I have a few....

Indeed you do!
Do you collect signs too or were/are you in the business?

 

[Huskvarna hotellgäst]

Cool. Any idea where I can get an air filter for one? Had one in here couple of weeks ago for repair, got it running but couldn't find an air filter for it.

Thinking outside the square, given that the filter bolts into the back of a horizontally-mounted standard Tillotson carb, someone must have thought of or tried to adapt a smaller filter from another saw that attaches in the same way.

 

[Jeff Lary]

I met up with a woman whos deceased husband used to own a shop. I saw the signs and made her an offer she cut my offer in 1/2 and insisted I just take them and enjoy them . And it did.

 

[Huskybill]

All right those pics should spark some interest in partners a partner? I have that many partners tucked away.

 

[Jeff Lary]

As for large saws I have a P-70 I would like to also have a 85 and a 100cc saw at some point. I have a new Dolmar 5105 with about 1 cord of wood on it but the Partners still hold a special place in my heart.

 

[barie]

I have some P100 sitting on the shelf, i you have the opportunity to run one you definitly want some.

With a 50cm 404 bar the saw cuts extremely well.

 

[Jeff Lary]

yep bet they do, those look pretty nice.