Some saws not seen outside Japan often

[SEAM]

In the early 60s, when Japanese chainsaw brands emerged, the first saws were not really intended for export. There are a number of models that did not make it to the US or Europe.

The first blue Echos (CS80, CS60), for example:



Video (I like the sound of these)

 

[SEAM]

Video

 

[SEAM]

The Rabbit chainsaws:



There are some more that I will post later...

 

[SEAM]

Another Rabbit:

 

[SEAM]

Yanmar Rotary Engine Chainsaw (1976)

 

[SEAM]

An early Zenoah G35 (they actually started with the name spelling XENOAH):

 

[Adirondackstihl]

Yanmar still makes marine outboards I do believe

 

[SEAM]

Yanmar still makes marine outboards I do believe

Yanmar makes a lot of agricultural machinery and marine equipment (boats, engines, etc.)

 

[barneyrb]

Way cool, but got a couple questions.....

1) How rare is that Yanmar Rotary saw

2) Can we get a video of it running...

 

[SEAM]

The first two versions of the Echo Twin:


They were called 601TVLA (CST600 abroad) and 611T (CST610 abroad)...

 

[SEAM]

Kreis (made by Alpina in Italy)

 

[SEAM]

Way cool, but got a couple questions.....

1) How rare is that Yanmar Rotary saw

2) Can we get a video of it running...

1) Extremely rare
2) There you go:

 

[barneyrb]

Thanks, I like it.....I take it you are in a rural area

 

[SEAM]

Thanks, I like it.....I take it you are in a rural area

Yupp, I moved down here from Tokyo 20 years ago or so.
I grew up in a small rural community and never liked big cities.

 

[leeha]

You have a few sweet saws there. Very nice and
thanks for sharing.
How rare are the blue Echo's. I would love to find
one of each for my collection.





Lee

 

[watsonr]

Interesting to see these saws... guess my trip to Japan in December will be filled with saw hunting as well!

 

[Hinerman]

Very Very nice collection. And I agree, that saw in the video sounds awesome. I have never heard a saw sound like that. Put up a video of it in some wood if you don't mind :msp_biggrin:

 

[SEAM]

A Zenoah (XENOAH) G50:

 

[SEAM]

Shindaiwa E-35

 

[SEAM]

Echo 301