Nik's Poulan Thread

[fossil]

When you get the low adjusted where you want then go back and check the high also.

Roger,
Your avatar inspired me. I built a shelf. Now all I have to do is finish getting them moved over. That's one's 8 ft long. I have room for a 12 footer on the other side. If that fills I will have to move, likely by myself. Maybe I'll sort them by Poulan and off brands.

 

[3000 FPS]

Very nice Tim. Looks like a great job you did there. I like it.
When I get moved which I am hoping will happen here in about two weeks I will be building more shelves myself. I may have to use yours as a guide.

 

[fossil]

Pics when you move in. Your new place looks beautiful. The shelf seems pretty sturdy. No deflection at all in the shelves. I think it will hold 45 to 50 saws no problem (or 20 MAC 610's)

 

[3000 FPS]

Yea those Mac's are pretty heavy.
Pics of the house when I get moved in coming up.

 

[ChipsFlyin]

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Roger,
Your avatar inspired me. I built a shelf. Now all I have to do is finish getting them moved over. That's one's 8 ft long. I have room for a 12 footer on the other side. If that fills I will have to move, likely by myself. Maybe I'll sort them by Poulan and off brands.

If you were a chick I think I would ask you to be my second wife for your saws!

 

[ChipsFlyin]

Anyone see the goofball listings on ebay for the small Poulan/Craftsman saws? The guy has them listed for $250.00 each.

 

[blk05crew]

Well here's a few pics of my $30 3400 I picked up today. Kinda rough, handle is bent pretty bad muffler is bent and it needs a few things. Piston and cylinder look ok and it will run but I think what I'm going to do instead of dumping some money into it is I'm going to take the spikes off it and put it on my other 3400 and keep the piston and cylinder in case I need one down the road, keep the bar and chain and sell the rest of the parts on ebay so I have some cash for more saws

 

[blk05crew]

I can't seem to find a picture anywhere of a 3400 like this, is this a different version or just have some different model parts on it?

 

[3000 FPS]

It looks like a later 3400 with the plastic clutch cover. Not uncommon.

 

[blk05crew]

Thanks, I wasn't sure.

 

[Guido Salvage]

Yup, late model, the lettering on the decals is black rather than blue.

 

[sawmandave]

I have posted this on the older site so thought I would post em again , there is one on ebay for sale now

This is what started it all for the POULAN one man saws ,I will dig a video out of her running !

 

[blk05crew]

So my brother in law and father in law both run Stihl's and Poulan's. The past few years when getting firewood with them, I didn't have a saw so I always split
and helped stack which I was fine with. Sometimes I'd use their saws. So after picking up and kind of rebuilding my first saw this last August, a Stihl 038 AV, I
now have 5 saws all Stihl and Poulan's. I really like the Stihl's I have and thought that was the brand I was going to stick with, but the more I'm on here and the
more I look at all the Poulan's, I think I really like them more! Just something about them and that green! Anyway, just wanted to post that and share, so thanks
to all you in this thread for helping me out with info and questions.

 

[sawmandave]

video of it running at our GTG (central Va. GTG 2013 ) in Louisa Virginia

 

[Acornhill]

I little 5200 5400 8500

 

[blk05crew]

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Nice! My father in law has an 8500.

 

[Hoggwood]

....A little 5200 5400 8500View attachment 371483

...and a lot of envy. That there is some quality magnesium.

 

[Guido Salvage]

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This picture is over a year old and needs to be updated, here are some of my large Countervibes.

 

[blk05crew]

This picture is over a year old and needs to be updated, here are some of my large Countervibes.

Wow that's awesome and a whole lot of green!

 

[sawmandave]

I bought out an old POULAN dealer in my area and this was in pile of old sand cast parts , it is an original piston and box for the above POULAN A that I posted , really neat how this co. evolved , I assume this part almost does not exist anywhere as most of this stuff was thrown away !!!!!!