The handle is totally useless, usually referred to as a "hand guard" and should be illegal as it fools people into thinking they are buying a chainbrake. Not sure if the manufacturer thinks it actually provides some safety or is purposefully meant to mislead. Fairly common on older saws, especially the small cheap ones and even now can be found on a lot of electric saws.
Many thanks for the info. Nothing found on the internet about this. At least my sanity, such as it is, can stumble along some more.
Yes, when I seen the Homelite Ranger name in your original post I thought it was one of those red plastic models with the yellow recoil and fuel/oil tank caps. I had someone drop one off once for repair, I never bothered to even look at it , I never got around to look at it.
Thanks for the note. Kinda sad; I was brought up making firewood with a Homelite. That old thing never let us down for the 10 years or so until Uncle Sam called.
The real Homelites were very good long lasting saws, the one you have is not a real Homelite, they were bought up many years ago and the stuff using the Homelite name these days are cheap plastic disposable units, when they break or wear out they are not worth having them fixed, if you can fix them yourself then it may be worth it to you.It is sad what happened to the real companies like McCulloch, Poulan, Homelite and Pioneer.
Yup!
