254's are really good saw's Husqvarna got it right with these way back when still great saw's even now, glad your liking yours.

That was also around the time they quit making the 2149 I believe. Maybe it never got the update. I remember seeing this one on eBay and didn't have any extra money at the time. Definitely lost some sleep thinking about how cheap it went. Glad to see you ended up with it 👍

Most of these early models had the twist lock filters then they switched the "pro" models over to the metal snap clip in the later ones, both in orange and red models. The twist lock filters continued to be used in all the "non pro" clam shell saws I think throughout their production run, I could be wrong just what I've seen in my parts saws.

Smaller the chain the more frustrating it is to sharpen is pretty much everyone's complaint, .325 isn't to bad to deal with but any of the micro stuff like 1/4'' super pico or micro or whatever it's called that stuff get's me a little upset lol!

Thanks for the kind words means a lot, I try to be humble and thankful everyday for all the good in my life I should have mentioned it in the video. I take nothing for granted and simply do the best I can a little down on myself now and again but sometimes I just try to hard, we all have those days; a person has to fight the good fight that's my belief.

This pipe turned out really good fitment wise how it looks is in the eye of the beholder maybe not to everyone's liking but guys like us do, more important is it also works really good; inside hint watch for upcoming videos. Torch weld brazing has served many people well over the years not many do it any more but a tried and true process. Thanks for watching and leaving a comment.

I didn't show or mention it in this video series but I did check the oiler worm gear when I serviced the clutch group. I changed the rim from a 7 tooth to an 8 and greased the clutch bearing along with pulling out the worm gear to have a look at it to make sure it was still good and was oem more importantly that it wasn't a cheap aftermarket one which are known to fail early, the seal was clean and no rubbing so all good there but yes I should have made mention of it. Thanks for noticing and the comment.

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Glad to hear you found one of these saw's the 59 series are not as high strung as the 56/57's but still very good solid runners even in stock form. Have fun working on your saw that's all part of it and a big reason why I do it.

Oh I know it all to well it's a never ending job with firewood and you can never have to much of it, this little bunch lasted 10 days had a real cold snap after this video was taken. Thanks for watching and the sub.

230-240 Timberjack's and Clark 664's ruled the roost in my area years ago along with a good number of Treefarmer C5D's and all were cable machine's no one would even try a grapple machine, then a few guy's started using grapple and everyone seen they didn't have to drag cable through brush suddenly it was like a stampede everyone then wanted a grapple machine lol! We have heavy brush throughout our treed area's here (southeast Manitoba) that and hand cutting went away in favor of faller buncher's and grapple skidder's. Select cut hardwood logging in southern Ontario is a different world compared to bulk pulpwood logging of northwest Ont. or southeast Mb. I could always do a nicer job also with a grapple machine because you have a hold on the tree's your skidding compared to a cable machine were the tree is sliding around and bouncing off other tree's when winching in a load, important if your doing select cut and don't want to skin up the young leave behind tree's.

@ ya I agree cutting hardwood here is much different than pulpwood logging. Here only felled bunchers and forwarders or grapple skidders are only used on the huge pine plantations for the first and second thinning well in the red pine plantations because hydro poles are hand cut usually on the 3rd and 4th cuts. Then the hardwood gets started and they turn into hardwood bushes the white pine is a little different they use bunchers for that unless they are being sold for log homes

In this area we call it poplar what you see me cutting is white poplar and most of it in this cut block was low grade chipper pulpwood for an OSB mill, lot's of it had rotten center's. We have white poplar and black poplar here, with the black poplar being very low grade like cottonwood. I guess their all part of the aspen family but there's quit a few different sub species that are called poplar or so I have been told by forester's.

@ We have all kinds here that we call poplar. We have aspen , black poplar , yellow poplar, balm , cottonwood, tulip , We put willow and basswood in either that too because they are basically the same in hardness. When we get box elder or some call it Manitoba maple. We even mix that in. Because it’s much softer than soft maple So for pallets. We call all that softwood Then we do white pine , red pine, spruce, hemlock, tamarack or larch whatever u want to call it lol So if you buy softwood from us for pallets it could be any one of those unless you specifically want a certain species

This was a cable machine also but we made our own grapple setup on it these little S7's never came with a grapple option so a one of a kind I guess, only the bigger S8's could be ordered with one. There was lot's of these machines around year's ago but now they have pretty much disappeared.

Yup so do I, thanks for watching.

If you mean one of the barn cat's that made a guest appearance at the start of the video they were plowing their own trail across the yard before I cleared it, was funny watching them play. If you mean the skidder yes it's also a beast lol!

Much appreciated thanks for watching and leaving a comment.

It's from my prospective of what I'm seeing from the operator's seat, I guess it's called POV (point of view) just a short quick video of what I was doing kind of in the moment. A lot of people ask how this or that work's or how I operate the machine so a bit of an in cab of what I'm doing, there will be different video's with different camera angles in the future.

When your a kid and you hear people calling them screamin' demon's I guess that would be enough to scare the crap outa most kid's lol. Old two stroke Detroit's are fun to operate for the first hour then the rest of the day not so much, the sound pressure coming out of these thing's reverberates right through your chest when sitting close to them on a machine; it plays you out quicker then people realize. I still like them regardless though.

Now now let's not be so dramatic it's only whipped up to 2750 rpm and wait for it.... waaait... HOLY BATMAN!! it's moving 41/2 mph, see no need to be so melodramatic. smh. LOL!

Sweet sound of the devil's music lol! Glad you liked it, the old ladies in my area just call the cop's every time I run it!

@StuInTheSticks Absolutely LOVE that machine! Can you do a video about it?

@@Mudsuitable Couldn't sleep so here I am talking about the old Timberjack at 3:45am. I actually need to do some more snow clearing yet and it's supposed to warm up the next few day's so besides doing more videoing of the machine working I will try and take a few minutes to do a walk around pointing out the machines layout and spec's, a few people besides yourself ask me now and again so I will try if I get a chance. In the meantime if you go back in my video library I do have some other video's of this machine and if I remember right I do talk a little about it's spec's although not in as much detail as some would like, it'll take time to get through the editing and such so you'll have to wait a bit but there's more to come hang in there!

I'll have to watch those other vids in case I haven't already, I think everyone will be excited to see a feature on the old girl I know I am. What is sleep anyway? Never heard of it 😂 Be safe man!Thanks for giving us a peek into your world.

These little skidder's were pretty decent in their time this one had a 3-53 Detroit as well when it rolled off the assembly line but that engine was long gone by the time we got it, we used what we had around to repower it which happened to be what you see in it now. Worked out way better and has lasted way longer then we every thought it would, good to hear someone else is still running these old Hough machines I thought I was getting to be the only one left still using this old iron.

@@StuInTheSticks I love my S7B, it's the perfect size for me. I did an in-frame overhaul on it a couple of years ago and she runs like new now. I have a few videos out on it if you'd like to check it out.

@@niemiwoods I remember seeing one of your video's your machine is a model or two newer than mine is, these are great little skidder's for doing small scale select cut or firewood. That's mostly what mine's used for now but once and awhile I use it at a logging site for tipping tree's over when hand felling along with a bit of skidding if the skid's are very short bunching type work.

Next time I'll attach the camera on the front of the blade lol!

I can see lol .

No skidsteer controls on these machines and no steering wheel to be found lol, sorry I'm so used to running these dinosaur's I don't think twice just jump on and go but I will explain it for you and won't make fun of it. Okay the lever on the far right closest to the camera that my right hand is on is the blade control the next one to the left of it the long one is the steering control that my left hand is on that's the one that I'm... well steering the machine with they don't have a steering wheel with the hydraulic orbit motor, then the next one left of that is the forward and reverse transmission control lever and the next one left of that is the transmission speed or range selector lever the two transmission lever's are not hydraulic just straight linkage to the trans; then finally the one up on the far left upper side is the hydraulic winch control spool. Phew! I think I covered all of them if your still with me here, all the control's on these early machine's are just straight up hydraulic spool valve's no pilot valve's just old school hydraulic valves a very simple trouble free system very basic but reliable that's why these machine's were so tough and long lasting. Hope that answers your question's and then some and thanks for watching and leaving a comment. Oh almost forgot on the grapple skidder's they also have a three spool control or lever's over to your right side that control's the grapple function at the back of the machine when skidding wood if the machine is set up that way, see easy as pie nothing to it!

I don't mind it being a white Christmas could have done without three times the normal amount of snow in one storm for our area lol!

I also spent a long time looking for these Jonsered saw's more then 10 year's actually so right now I'm being pretty tight fisted and not wanting to let go of them, I'm like the old lady you here about that lives at the end of the road who collect's way to many cat's only I collect way to many chainsaw's lol! Sorry bud I know how hard it is to try and find a model of saw you can't seem to get your hand's on when your looking for that one.

A lot of these early first gen autotune's had issues with hot restart and lots of them are fine with little to no problems, don't know what's at the core of it really. lot's of different opinions on the causes many people think it has to do with the carb's but some guy's have switched carb's from a good running different saw only to have the same thing still plague that problem saw. I think it could be a tank vent issue just my thinking on this, a lot of people don't know or have forgotten past history on some of the early 200 series Husqvarna and Jonsered 600 series saw's long before autotune came along; many of those saw's suffered from tank vent problem's not all but there was a good bunch of them did back in the day. I had a 630 super my dad had a 630 super 2 and my brother had a early 630 non super and they all ran good restarted good never an issue with tank vent vapor lock or hot restart but... My brother's buddy he used to log with had a 630 super a couple year's newer than my saw and he had nothing but issue's with hot restart with his saw. I also know a few local guy's that had 266's and 268's with that same issue and a whole bunch more guy's with the same saw's that never had an issue with theirs, turn's out Husqvarna used four yes 4 different tank vent's in those saw's over the year's in their production run and that's were all the problem's came from. I have a Jonsered 670 that has had nothing but tank vent issues it's whole life and yes it has a different vent system then my other saw's of that era, I suspect Husqvarna may have done something similar with these early 500 series saw's before correcting the issue. I have never took the time to look into it and if memory serves me right guy's were talking about two different type of tank vent's being used in some of these early 500 series saw's so is that the cause who knows but it's possible. Sorry for the long winded reply but just giving you some back history and sorry to hear your saw is one of those problematic one's.

@@StuInTheSticks Thank you for the info.

You have hundreds of part's saw's you say hmmm.... thanks for letting me know I may one day have to take you up on that lol! Thank you kindly for the offer all joking aside and thanks for leaving a comment; I do love a good saw build though; he has hundred's of part's saw's hmmm....

Yes the pump is a 8 piston pump each one is a removable spring loaded cartridge unit along with 8 spring loaded pressure valves if that's what your saying.

I tune by ear and by feel I don't use a tach on my saw's so not sure of the rpm's it would be running at but the 272XP's don't run as high of rpm's as the other 200 series saw's, they don't like to spine up that high and where built that way lower rpm big bore torque design; that's why a lot of people didn't care for the 272's.

​Посмотрел в мануале хускварна 272 хр максимальные обороты с цепью 13500,хускварна 268 - 12500, 61 хускварна - 12000. У меня 266 se, 266xp, и была 268 сделал из неё 272 спалил 1 бак всего!

@@АнтонРоготовский-ы9ж I do know that the 268 is a lot more snappy on the throttle then the 272 is I aways thought the 272 ran at lower rpm's but that's just because they are more sluggish and just feel that way I guess, bigger displacement makes them sound different also; now I know better thanks for letting me know.

Spare parts for all of the 200 series saw's are getting tough to find through a Husqvarna dealer these day's. The seal o-rings you ask about that go behind the oiler pump to crankcase and the flywheel side seal retainer to crankcase you could still get from Husqvarna a year ago when I last checked, but they may have stopped carrying them now though so check with your dealer just in case they might be still available but they are not cheap very expensive through Husqvarna. There's a guy who sells these o-ring kit's on ebay every now and again check on there to see if he has any listed, if you want check out some older videos over at Tinman saw's here on KZbin he has mentioned a guy from the USA that sell's these o-ring's and he get's a bunch of them from that guy. Sorry wish I could give you a direct source but at the moment even I'm not sure where I could get them if I need to replace these in the future.

It does pretty good considering how old this tractor is, has done way more work on the farm then I ever expected of it over the year's. Pump turned out good and I'm very thankful for that I just take my time and try my best with these kind of repairs.

If I understand what your asking correctly "how to adjust pump pressure" You don't adjust these pumps their made to pump full capacity or run idle when no load is detected ie closed port system and use two 2 pumps the main radial high pressure piston pump you see me working on and then a low pressure charge pump in the transmission. There's a series of flow and check valves throughout the tractor that control all the different functions on said tractor. If you want a little more detail I will give you a basic overview, these tractors work on a three 3 system circuit "low pressure/low volume circuit" "low pressure/high volume circuit" "high pressure circuit" and these circuit's are all controlled by external regulating valve. That's about all I can tell you about them in a nutshell if you want details on a repair problem your having you need to get yourself a repair book then read up on how to do the hydraulic tests, or find someone that has the tools that can help you close to where you live; sorry wish I could be more helpful but that's the best I can do.

You mean the second gen 555 pro or updated mark ll, Yes this is an original mark l with some updates.

Biggest reason I do muffler mod's on my saw's is not to just make noise it's to reduce heat build up that's what kill's two stroke's they like to flow. Like most Husqvarna saws of this era they used different cylinders from different manufactures on these 254's, all were closed port but some ran stronger then others I think there was three different cylinder suppliers in their production run but I won't get into what was what here. My saw is one of those that does run very strong pulls hard in the cut did the muffler mod make a huge difference no but it did gain some overall and it has a lot better throttle response very snappy now spools up fast, it still has it's base gasket as well so only a muffler mod on it. I welded a big ugly direct outlet into the front of the muffler is it the best or only way to do it of course not, I could have still cut out the internal restricted baffle system and opened up the original outlet more and it would have worked good also; I have a couple more of these saw's in my junk pile so I will probably do a muffler mod that way in the future would leave the saw looking "factory original". More saw building fun in the work's of various model's and brand's.

@StuInTheSticks I can't remember but I think my good runner has a decomp and is newer even though it looks older and beat up but squish is about 22 tho ,the clean looking one doesn't have a decomp and squish is around 33tho, I'm going to try and get it running better when I have the time.

If you can get to do what you really want in life then there's no better job around few of us ever get that choice, glad to hear your chasing your dream and following in your Grampa's foot step's it won't be easy nothing in life is but stick with it and put in your time you'll do just fine; wishing you all the best. On a side note there's a whole new logging season coming up so there will be lots of new video's that I will be posting from cutting to running skidder to building chainsaw's so pop in from time to time, you never know what I'll be up to; thanks for watching.

Could be any number of things causing low system flow and or pressure so your going to have to do a system flow and pressure test. Get yourself a good repair service manual they usually have the test points in that manual and how to go about it, if you don't want to try this yourself then tract down a good mobile mechanic with the right hydraulic testing tools to do a hydraulic system test for you but you will still need the repair manual for the right numbers. Hope that helps I know it's probably not the answer you were looking for but every tractors issues are different so that's about all I can offer up, good luck with your trouble shooting.

The 455 rancher is a way overhyped saw at least that's my take on it they weigh pretty much the same as a 365 or 372XP OE's but not even close in the power to weight ratio to heavy for their lack luster performance, I would rather run a 450 rancher a little less power but quit a bit less weight and actually cut pretty good for light firewood duty but are no 555. 5 series saw's are in that power to weight ratio that's hard to beat plus their anti-vibe is the best of any saw I have run yet and yes that includes some of the new Stihl saw's I've run their good but just not as smooth.

This saw turned out to be one of the better deals I've made in awhile, it got a lot of use in the last logging season off camera has paid for itself many times over. So far so good it's been running great many people don't like these first gen autotune's finicky quirks but I never minded how they are to start bought one of my first autotune saw's back in early 2015, sure like how they run and perform!

Your lucky I still had the little box the kit came in with the part# cause I have a tendency to not throw shit out when I'm supposed to lol. Okay the kit I got was from HY-CAPACITY tractor parts part# 8302083 you can look it up on their website www.hy-capacity.com I just got mine from a local tractor parts supplier I never checked with AGCO with them I think you have to buy each o-ring separate. Just so you know the kit has all the o-rings that the pump uses and the outside dust seal but the kit does NOT have the pump shaft cup seal in it, mine was fine but a lot of times they are shot so for that one you would have to get from a dealer; hope that helps you out.

@@StuInTheSticks Thank you very much my friend, For your information, May God bless you thanks again, 👍

You can tow them but like most farm implements it's slow going if you have a long way's to go. The 5000 has a locking pin on the back of the swivel housing for transport along with lift cylinder lock's for the header, make sure they are all in place before moving. As far as the hitch it's a ball end cat 2 3PTH type of swivel end that couples to the tractor hitch adapter/extender, you can tow them with a High grade bolt through the swivel end to a receiver hitch without the ball. That's how I towed mine home when I bought it I moved mine about 40 miles but and I will say this, and it's a big but; you take up a lot of space on a highway. The 5000 came in 12 14 16 and some late models I think 18ft and that's full crossways width. Mine is a 14ft cut but overall width is 16.5ft so proceed with caution it all depends on where you live and what the highway transport rules are where you live for moving farm machinery. These machines are pretty simple and tough overall mine has been good to me for how much time I have on it so no real complaints, good luck.

@@StuInTheSticks yeah this one is prolly identical. its a 14ft bar on it. i see their newer models pivot 90 degrees for towing.. i may have to think more on this. thanks for the info

@@firetoy911 Yes the new discbines from Macdon turn sideways for transport but not all of them, these older sickle cutters do not either and can be a bugger if your dealing with narrow bridges driveway's and the like.

Thanks for the continued support.

No problem with finding lacing or the pins in my area this year but then again with some of the prices their charging around here maybe that's why they still had lot's of stock left.

It has been a very strange weather year for us here too actually the last few years have been pretty tough, all over the map never know what to expect next other than what comes next will probably be worst then what we already had. Just have to live through it the best we all can.

I know I've had to fix at least one tire on almost everything that moves this year lol!