first time you started using a chainsaw what was it?

[dh1984]

when you first started using a chain what make and modle was it?

i'll start it off

My first chainsaw i ever ran by my self for first time. was a Poulan wood shark and it was about 17 years ago.

i think i was about 15 years old when i ran it and every since i been using a chainsaw to cut wood with to heat my house.

So what i would everyone to tell us on here when they first used a chainsaw please. i know some of us on here are some Vintage pepole but don't let that stop you for posting. so come on and tell us when you first started using chainsaws.

 

[bob15]

I think i was about 10-11 and it was a right hand start 10-10A. Still have that saw 30 years later.....



bob

 

[w8ye]

Something along the lines of a Homelite 4-20 about the fall of 1958.

Cutting on an old long leaf pine stump where the tree was cut down around 1926.

I twould dull the chain right away because of the dirt inclusions.

 

[procarbine2k1]

Stihl 031, cant remember how old I was...

 

[Somesawguy]

I would guess I was around 11 when my dad would let me use his Homelite 350. He still has it, but it needs a little work.

 

[lmalterna]

15yr old Stihl 028.

Uncles would not let me use family saws as they would feel guilty if I got hurt. So I saved up and bought my own. Then they taught me how to use it.

Bill

 

[capetrees]

Metallic blue, mufferless Homelite Zip when I was 12. Got it from my aunt who was never married and always felt she could do anything. Still have the saw but haven't run it in years. Don't have the aunt though.:frown:

Thanks Auntie!!:msp_w00t:

 

[jahsteve]

homelite super xl...

 

[RandyMac]

At 12 it was my Grandad's blue XL12, the next year his C5, 3 years later I bought a McCulloch 250.

 

[rms61moparman]

I have an uncle who thought I was a full grown man at 12.
He never would let any saw on the place except a McCulloch until he got a Remington Mighty Mite Bantam one year for Christmas.
I would run the HUGE heavy old Mac's and he would run the Remington.
One That I remember was a 250 Mac.

We sure put a LOT of wood on the porch.


Mike

 

[pafire]

Echo cs 60

 

[homelitejim]

When I was young we cut wood with bow saws, my first chainsaw was a yellow electric until I became a homeowner then I got the FIL's Stihl 032 and I used that for years and still have it in the case under my bench. Then CAD hit and I picked up two today a JRed 670 super and unknown big husky.

 

[2strokenut]

I was 12 when I first ran my dads stihl 510 cutting fire wood

 

[carguy]

MAC 15 which was not a vintage saw at the time. Somehow a buddy of mine got it from his Grandfather apparently without his parents knowing about it. We were 13 at the time and we had a blast with that saw out in the woods. The main thing I remember about it was how loud it was and niether of us was very big so it seamed heavy. The saw ended up being taken away from us because someone thought we might get hurt, imagine that. Actually with what I now know it is truely amazing that none of us did get hurt.

 

[CTYank]

Except for sporadic encounters with Homelites on suburban trimming crew during college vacations, a Poulan S25DA. LOUD, powerful, taught me to respect chainsaws, and cut lots of wood in the couple of years I had it. (I already had ear-muffs.)

 

[fearofpavement]

summer of my 17th year. It was a smallish Poulan. Don't know the model but know it didn't have a chain brake and had a manual oiler. That would've been, hmmm, 1975. I was clearing a lot for a church's expansion.

 

[derwoodii]

020av about 1981 was after few days with 1st tree co dragging brush. I had no training only watched others start n use that day, I just picked it up started it and put on wood.. I had no idea what was going to happen next :msp_ohmy:

 

[MS460WOODCHUCK]

Poulan 1800 which was an older one with the blue sticker's. It was the only saw my dad ever bought new until he bought his second 1800 which he still runs. I was 11 when I started.

 

[CedarRock]

Mac 10 about 45 yrs ago. My dad's saw that got taken away by the USDA Law Enforcement. Don't ask why...

 

[rms61moparman]

The first memory that I have of a chainsaw was a sand cast Poulan (don't remember the number) that my mothers brother had.
(Not to be confused with my Fathers brother referenced above.)

That S.O.B. was so damn loud that we kids would literally fight to see who was gonna have to hold the wood for Uncle Billy to cut!!!
About 5 minutes holding the wood and your ears seemed like they were about to bleed.
I've never experienced a louder saw in my life. Maybe it was because I was so young and my ears were so sensitive, but it was absolutely brutal!!!


Mike