Steve NW WI
Unwanted Riff Raff.
A friend called yesterday, his neighbor had a big old chainsaw he was looking to get rid of. He figured (correctly) that I might be interested.
After a bit of negotiation, and some BSing, I came home with a 5500 Bolens. From Acres' site, it's got a 106cc West Bend under the hood. Somebody put an el cheapo paint job on it at some point, and hand painted "Bolens" on it, but I can overlook that.
The chain is beyond junk, whatever it used to have for an air filter is long gone, as is the muffler deflector. Other than that, it's complete.
Model Profile: 5500 SERIES
Danged if it didn't run after a bit of fresh gas and a couple pulls of the rope! I tried to cut a little, but like I said, the chain is J-U-N-K. Gonna have to hunt down a better chain. It looks like .404, though I haven't measured it yet. Acres says 7/16" pitch though. Don't laugh too much at the hillbilly operator trying to force it to cut!
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In case the embedding doesn't work, you can see the short video here: Bolens 5500 - junk chain - YouTube
After a bit of negotiation, and some BSing, I came home with a 5500 Bolens. From Acres' site, it's got a 106cc West Bend under the hood. Somebody put an el cheapo paint job on it at some point, and hand painted "Bolens" on it, but I can overlook that.
The chain is beyond junk, whatever it used to have for an air filter is long gone, as is the muffler deflector. Other than that, it's complete.
Model Profile: 5500 SERIES
Danged if it didn't run after a bit of fresh gas and a couple pulls of the rope! I tried to cut a little, but like I said, the chain is J-U-N-K. Gonna have to hunt down a better chain. It looks like .404, though I haven't measured it yet. Acres says 7/16" pitch though. Don't laugh too much at the hillbilly operator trying to force it to cut!
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In case the embedding doesn't work, you can see the short video here: Bolens 5500 - junk chain - YouTube