Mini GTG in South Boston, VA

After securing their latest "acquisition" early yesterday morning, Smilin' Possum & son Little Possum dropped by to pick me up and with full synthetic mix coursing through our veins we set off for South Boston, VA to meet up with two other AS members Igpoe & Stinkbait. Took about an hour and a half to arrive at Igpoe's home. There Dean greeted us and motioned us to drive around into the back yard. After getting reacquainted for a few minutes Joe & Zachary unloaded their prize, a two-man Disston Mercury DA-211.





After cleaning out the fuel tank and adding new mix, Dean set about trying to start the Mercury. BTW that's Dean with the gas can, Joe (Smilin' Possum) next, and Zachary (Little Possum) on the far right.

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The saw just wouldn't have any of this running business today and after a time trying to get the carb not to flood, we set about other business... Checking out some of Dean's other saws. Amazing what you can fit in a workshop building not much bigger than a single car garage.



A bit much to take in all at one time, so I took a few pics of individual saws. Notice how some of the old Poulan saws caught my attention since that is primarily the older saws I collect.

Poulan 53 Bow Saw


Disston, obviously. Forgot the model #. Maybe Dean will help with it.


Homelite Zip on the left & Poulan 31 Bow on right. Not sure about the model of the yellow saw.


Not sure about this one.


Poulan 81

Action Time

The first two-man saw we ran yesterday was a Mall 7H. This is an "alternate" way of starting one whose rewind is broken at the moment.

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Will it cut?
Here Zachary & Dean check it out.

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Next is a Titan "Bluestreak".
Dean & Zachary again.

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Next is a Poulan 53 bow saw being run by Stinkbait (Mitchell) and then some old guy takes over at the end.

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Next Dean runs his Poulan 245A bow saw.

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And lastly, here's Dean with his Poulan 31.

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I'd like to see that 31 with a real good chain.
It sounded great when it settled down in the cut!

Nice little GTG.
Looks like you guys had a blast
with some good old iron.



Lee

gotta love GTG's!!

I see how it is nobody called me. Just kidding I was probably in Greeneville, TN working. Looks like yall had a lot of fun. I did meet a guy earlier this week in Cary that has some huge trees he wants somebody to cut up. He apparently has about 88 acres near the state line near South Boston if yall want I will give him a call and see how serious he was and maybe we could have some sort of GTG up there.

JT78 said:

I see how it is nobody called me. Just kidding I was probably in Greeneville, TN working. Looks like yall had a lot of fun. I did meet a guy earlier this week in Cary that has some huge trees he wants somebody to cut up. He apparently has about 88 acres near the state line near South Boston if yall want I will give him a call and see how serious he was and maybe we could have some sort of GTG up there.

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Didn't want you to be frettin' over it all day while you had to work, JT. Besides, you can tell we wasn't havin' no fun. :hmm3grin2orange: Dean loaded LP down with goodies. In fact we all came away with more than we arrived with. Cutting those trees up there sounds good to me!

Yea, it was a GREAT time with some old iron. I had a blast. Dean was very generous in letting us run any of his saws that we wanted to. Some of them were temper mental and didnt want to start. (it was the atmospheric pressure and reverse directional pull of the earth.)
It was also a awesome history lesson in chainsaws. Got to see some very different models of saws. Some good designs, some not so good. Like the Homelites with the rotating carbs, so you could run the saw to fell a tree.

Also got to run my 371 and stick it into that wood. although the 24" wasnt quite enough to get all the way through the wood.
Then ran Stinkbaits 125 again :jawdrop: and his XL 925.

Big thanks to Dean and Mitchell.

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Yes, we surely did have a good time and many thanks to 67 mustang for the extra nice vids. Looks like CNN was there covering the affair!
61Mopar is very observant. One of these days,(today), I'm gonna sharpen the chain on that 31 Poulan.............it deserves better treatment.
Hey Smilin Possum........You get that Merc to fully go yet? I'm thinking it just needs to get that float in the carb down lower and the fuel shutting off earlier,it'll be good to go.
Y'all make sure you don't lose the directions to my place,'cuz ya need to come on back soon.
Igpoe

igpoe said:

Yes, we surely did have a good time and many thanks to 67 mustang for the extra nice vids. Looks like CNN was there covering the affair!
61Mopar is very observant. One of these days,(today), I'm gonna sharpen the chain on that 31 Poulan.............it deserves better treatment.
Hey Smilin Possum........You get that Merc to fully go yet? I'm thinking it just needs to get that float in the carb down lower and the fuel shutting off earlier,it'll be good to go.
Y'all make sure you don't lose the directions to my place,'cuz ya need to come on back soon.
Igpoe

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Not yet but I will and you'll be the first to know it. I had a blast thanks for letting us come up. What a grand collection you have! I saw saws I've never seen before. I thought I'd seen a lot. It was like 10:30 till we got home and got unloaded, and I was pooped.
I couldn't have got to my work bench if I'd tried because somebody was in the way. He's already got one all to pieces on the table. You made that little fellow some kind of happy. I hope we do this again soon.
Keep an eye out for another bow saw I got to have one in my lineup after seeing those of your's. Also going to get me a longer bar and chain for the Merc. That Titan set me on fire that thing is a true Monster.

I had a great time. I only wish that I could have stayed longer. Thanks for posting those videos Steve. It was good to see you all again.

I'm diggin' the old iron more and more. It's cool to see the old stuff doing its thing again, many times after having sat for decades in a barn some where.

blsnelling said:

I'm diggin' the old iron more and more. It's cool to see the old stuff doing its thing again, many times after having sat for decades in a barn some where.

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Yup! And that's exactly what many of Dean's saws look like, good, unrestored condition. Nothing wrong with a saw that's been restored, but one that's still got its original paint but has obviously been used for its intended purpose appeals to me more.

I had a great time. I only wish that I could have stayed longer. Thanks for posting those videos Steve. It was good to see you all again.

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Yeh, wish you could've stayed longer Mitchell but when they chase you down like that, it's time to go. Great to see you again and appreciate all your help. Love to see younger guys in to saws, especially the "old" iron. May ask Santa to get me a video camera so I can do a bit better job with the videos. Only problem is I love to run the saws too much to spend all the time making vids. Must have been bs'ing with somebody yesterday when ya'll were running the Mac 125 and Homie 925.

One of the most unusual looking saws, to me at least. I bet that thing weighs 70 pounds :jawdrop:

Quite a intricate homemade repair.

Dean had a awesome collection of saws. I didnt take quite as many pictures as Steve did. I do have some vids I will try to get up later on. Have the Mall, Bluestreak, SP125, and my 371. Missed Mitchells 925, because I cant run the saw, and camera at the same time. Do have the bow saw on vid too

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That "heavy" orange one is a Disston-Mercury DO-100.
Igpoe

igpoe said:

That "heavy" orange one is a Disston-Mercury DO-100.
Igpoe

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You may have noticed that strange looking chain on that fat little bar. It actually straddles the bar. Doesn't have the bar groove as we know it. Dean may want to add some to that.

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That "heavy" orange one is a Disston-Mercury DO-100.
Igpoe

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Oh, yea I knew that. I did know it was a Disston Mercury.

?? Stinkbaits home-brew?

The size of the kerf from the Titan Bluestreak :jawdrop:

I guess my jaw was draggin all over Deans back yard and his shop

I see that you have already updated your sig.

Yea Mitchell, I think I am gonna have to downsize it soon. Starting to look like yours before you went to just the Macs.
Thanks for comin to the mini GTG and bringin your saws. They were both awesome. Well, of course you knew that already.