GASoline71
Mr. Nice Guy
This weekend I picked up 2 saws... This old Homelite 770G and an early 1900's drag saw. I will fill you guys in more on the drag saw later.
This old Homie is from the early 60's. 95cc gear driven monstosity. It originally was sporting a 50"+ bar on it. But that is where some intersesting history comes in. Back in the day when we had logging trains runnin' from the foothills of Mount Rainier to Commencement bay, Tacoma and the Port of Olympia, they would load the logs on the cars and then cut them off at the ends. This was one of the saws that did that job. Up until the late 70's when it was retired.
The stripe you see on the bar is a weld that was done in stainless steel around 1970 when the saw was run over by a rail car on the tracks. It severed the bar in two and the saw got a little banged up. Therefore it doesn't have the carb cover, spark plug cover is from a later model Homie, the wrap bar was restraightened and remounted, and the big as dog on the front was "fixed" and remounted. The bar was cut down to the size you see here and was welded back together with stainless steel, and restraightened.
This saw has a lot of history behind it. I got it from a family friend that had it hanging in his shop since the mid 70's. It was his Father-in-laws saw. He is the one that ran it in the woods during those glory days of PNW logging.
I hope you guys enjoy the pics and my dad and I are trying tp dig up some old pics of this saw in action back in the 60's. So hopefully we can get some scanned up. I am going to eventually try my first full saw restoration with this baby.
More to come on that drag saw later...
Gary
This old Homie is from the early 60's. 95cc gear driven monstosity. It originally was sporting a 50"+ bar on it. But that is where some intersesting history comes in. Back in the day when we had logging trains runnin' from the foothills of Mount Rainier to Commencement bay, Tacoma and the Port of Olympia, they would load the logs on the cars and then cut them off at the ends. This was one of the saws that did that job. Up until the late 70's when it was retired.
The stripe you see on the bar is a weld that was done in stainless steel around 1970 when the saw was run over by a rail car on the tracks. It severed the bar in two and the saw got a little banged up. Therefore it doesn't have the carb cover, spark plug cover is from a later model Homie, the wrap bar was restraightened and remounted, and the big as dog on the front was "fixed" and remounted. The bar was cut down to the size you see here and was welded back together with stainless steel, and restraightened.
This saw has a lot of history behind it. I got it from a family friend that had it hanging in his shop since the mid 70's. It was his Father-in-laws saw. He is the one that ran it in the woods during those glory days of PNW logging.
I hope you guys enjoy the pics and my dad and I are trying tp dig up some old pics of this saw in action back in the 60's. So hopefully we can get some scanned up. I am going to eventually try my first full saw restoration with this baby.
More to come on that drag saw later...
Gary
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