First Vintage Chainsaw Video of 2024 - Cutting Up Blowdown

[@brianking1138]

I really like the look of that Partner saw. Hopefully I can find one someday.

[@mrobsoletesvintagehomestea9156]

They are excellent saws.

[@chrischiampo7647]

Nice Video Mr Obsolete and Mrs Obsolete 😀😊❤️

[@mrobsoletesvintagehomestea9156]

Thanks! 😃

[@TheNorvikWay]

I like that logosol smart holder. Good for medium size logs. I've seen another brand with a long handle and a claw. You put the claw around the log pull back on it and it lifts a portion of the log off the ground. Both types look very handy. Keep yah from ruining a chain.... Great video Mr Obsolete.......👍🤙

[@mrobsoletesvintagehomestea9156]

The Smart Holder has been a great piece of equipment for processing firewood. There are more designs on the market than when I got, and may be better. Thanks for the nice comment and for watching.

[@agkleppel6235]

well done, greetings from germany

[@mrobsoletesvintagehomestea9156]

Howdy !

[@IowaPerformanceSaws]

I've always wanted one of these Partners. Rare in my area- but just look like fun little saws.

[@mrobsoletesvintagehomestea9156]

Partner saws are rare around here too. I only have a couple, the S-55 of 55cc and a P100 of 100cc'c badged as a McCulloch. Partner saws had really good features and very high quality components. They are some of the more powerful saws by displacement than most others in their heyday. The Husky 372's are based off the Partner designs, and that series of Husky's has been one of the best selling saws ever made.

[@BobE.Dancho]

Good. Take it easy and be careful.

[@mrobsoletesvintagehomestea9156]

The branches and brush on the ground was slicker than snot, so I had to be careful when walking across them. It was great to be out in the trees, cutting them up and running a vintage chainsaw.

[@GarySheren]

Looked like a good size job

[@mrobsoletesvintagehomestea9156]

This job went well. It was great to get out and do some tree work.

[@liljoeii6091]

THANK YOU FOR THE VIDEO

[@mrobsoletesvintagehomestea9156]

Thanks for watching.

[@davidcharles3131]

Perfect weather for wood cutting

[@mrobsoletesvintagehomestea9156]

I really enjoyed being outdoors, cutting up a tree and running a vintage chainsaw. We had really cold weather, then tons of rain after that, so it was a great day to be out when the weather got nice.

[@davidcharles3131]

@@mrobsoletesvintagehomestea9156 I was doing the same, it finally stopped raining and dryer out a little in Indiana. Wood cutting way behind for this time of year.

[@tedneitzel]

We should have 3 ft. of snow on the ground by now but its actually all just about melted. Probably in the next day or 2 I'll do a walk of the property and see if I've got anything new to clean and cut up. At this rate in the next week or so i can jump in the truck and go start getting next winters firewood! Be the earliest in many years i can remember anyways as its usually mid April at least! Sweet saw and see ya next week!

[@mrobsoletesvintagehomestea9156]

My goal is to get an early start on the firewood this year also. I have a bunch of trees that are damaged and dead, so weather permitting, the old saws will be earning their keep.

[@johnclarke6647]

I had to rehang my mailbox. Somebody had broken it off its post, probably the mailman. It had been a little loose for several years but I had not gotten around to fixing it. It is on a 4 by 4 post with an arm mitered into the post. It originally was on the 4 by 4 arm screwed into a 1 by 8 which had been nailed to the top of the arm. They had split the 1 by 8 in two and thrown the Mail box on the ground with the remaining piece of 1 by eight still screwed to the mailbox. I cleaned up their mess and got a 20” piece of 2 by 8 and screwed it to the top of the arm with deck screws. I then screwed the mailbox to the 2 by 8 with ten deck screws. They will have a difficult time getting that mailbox off of its post this time. I will paint everything when the weather moderates. That is why I leave a saw running in cold weather, so I don’t have to restart it and it better stay running or I find out why, usually from the L jet being to rich.

[@bobbynash282]

Hey ! Alabama's back. The tablet went bad, an l couldnt remember all the names. Its just popped in my head wow. I have 3 vintage saws . 1 is the Dolmar. Next is a Mac 10 10. Has great compression but l havent finished on it. Well cant remember but its running. You got some great saws. Sorry lve been gone so long.

[@mrobsoletesvintagehomestea9156]

Welcome back!

[@dwhallon21]

Your getting after it

[@mrobsoletesvintagehomestea9156]

The weather finally cooperated !

[@Indeewoods]

I always heard those Partners were really good saws. I often have to re-tune my saws come winter, or even in the fall when it gets cold. The air is much more dense, so you have to compensate by richening up the carb. Some saws are just more sensitive to jetting than others but a quarter turn out on that low jet should fix your issue. What I do is, I always tune my saws in the summer, and I tune them as rich as I possibly can on the low end without them idling poorly. So they are slightly on the rich side on the low end, but they still idle pretty good and plus when I let off the throttle, it’s just dumping a little bit more fuel to the Engine, which is good for hot weather and also cold-weather come winter or fall. Some of my clone saws and I believe my MS 250 had a little flap where you can let warm air in for cold weather. I think the other thing is that some fly wheels have more cooling fans or bigger fins on them so the engines just run a bit cooler so that’s great for the hot weather days but on the cold ones they don’t take long sitting before they need a little bit of choke. P.S I just picked up 10 more saws all vintage and you’ll be happy to hear that only two of them were wild things haha😂 I got an old Right hand start Mac 1010 one of the first 1010’s it looks like. The best one though is a Homelite Xl-76 58cc. You can just tell that when they came out in 1976 it must’ve been a real game changer here in Canada. What an awesome light old powersaw. Anyways I don’t think they were offered in the US. They probably had an equivalent model I’m guessing?

[@mrobsoletesvintagehomestea9156]

Partner saws are some of the best saws ever made. The Husky 372 and it's more modern versions are based on a Partner design. The Husky 72 series are one of the largest selling saws of all time. The 034 doesn't have the warm air option for cold weather, so at times when cutting in the video the idle would be off a bit, because I was experiencing minor carb icing. Adjusting the carb didn't improve the problem. Most of my saws I only need to adjust the carb for cold weather and again in warm weather. My Mac Mini Mac needs the carb adjusted anytime I use it. Finicky little rascal. Looking forward to seeing some decent vintage saws on your channel. The Homelite saw in the US that would be the same basic model to your XL-76 would be the Super XL of 58cc's. It will be interesting to see your small herd of vintage saws being in your future videos.

[@justinweaver8107]

Not bad ❤

[@mrobsoletesvintagehomestea9156]

Thanks.

[@johnclarke6647]

Only a sharp. Axe. I have been going to sharpen my axes this year but our weather has sucked. Cold and windy and I mean a wind that will blow right through any jacket that you have on, not to mention to what it does to a pair of jeans. I haven’t had any big blow downs, yet. A lot of small oak limbs but nothing big. I would probably grab my Stihl 021 for most of the big stuff. My wife filled up the wheel barrow a few weeks ago with small limbs when she pruned the crape myrtles. I do the big stuff. I pruned my peach trees on 1 Feb. You’re going to need to cut that bigger part of the tree that you cut at some time. My 021 would cut what I saw.

[@mrobsoletesvintagehomestea9156]

The main part of the trunk that is still hung up on the 10 foot stump will get branched and cut up with the 034, and the 10 foot trunk that is still standing will get cut up with my Mac 610.

[@EightWheelsRollin]

Good video! Mother Nature did indeed do you a favor. Time to buy a lottery ticket! That is one saw I don't have in my collection, Partner. You don't see them come up for sale all that often in the PNW. I know some of the later McCulloch saws (Pro Mac 1000) were made by Partner if I'm not mistaken. I think Partner and Pioneer merged or collaborated on a few saws as well. My history on the saws is kind of vague. I'm sure you have a better understanding of how they all came together. I'd love to have a Partner in the collection someday.

[@j.chrisbeck7492]

Not all that many Partners in my neck of the woods either...I don't own any, and haven't seen any that were less than 4 hours drive from me.....Elkton Maryland

[@mrobsoletesvintagehomestea9156]

I really lucked out on that tree falling where it did, as it missed all my equipment and other trees as well. Partners were some of the best made and engineered saws of their time. When Pioneer was starting to fail, they merged with Partner, and stayed around for a while, and when Pioneer-Partner failed, Poulan/Electrolux purchased them. They phased out all the small saws, but kept the P40, P50 and P60 saws around for quite awhile. In 1976 McCulloch sold the Partner P100, 100cc sold as the Pro Mac1000. I actually have a Pro Mac 100, a very rare saw. The Husky 372 was based on the Partner saw, which has been one of their best sellers of all time.

[@EightWheelsRollin]

I knew you would have all the details, ha! I get bits and pieces of information here and there and either through our conversations or your videos, I fill in the gaps. I love it! I was not aware that you had a Pro Mac 100, another great saw!

[@j.chrisbeck7492]

@@mrobsoletesvintagehomestea9156 I have the Holzforma G372XP I built as a kit. Also recently acquired a Husky 362. I might keep it stock, or I'm thinking of going 372 on it

[@mrobsoletesvintagehomestea9156]

I flubbed up and my message should have read Mac Pro Mac 1000, which is really a Partner P100.

[@i.m.askance7996]

I 'm going to make a negative comment, only because I saw something that to didn't look safe to me. @ 2:05 you chopped a limb off the same side of the tree as your left foot was on. If the axe had jumped just a few inches you could have sustained a bad cut. At least that's the way it appears.

[@mrobsoletesvintagehomestea9156]

Thanks for voicing your concern about my safety. The camera angle makes the axe look a lot closer to my foot than it actually was. The nice thing about using my 1 1/4 pound axe is that after cutting off a branch there isn't much momentum left. If you watch closely in the video, you will see that after the swing, I let the axe head hit the brush and ground so it was away from my foot. You can see that the impact was very light when the axe hit. You can see that I am wearing heavy pants and my boots have steel toes in them, so even if I had a miss with my axe, I most likely wouldn't have had an injury. Safety is number one when using any tool or piece of equipment.

[@daleharvey3278]

Pre chain brake...

[@mrobsoletesvintagehomestea9156]

The Partner S-55 came in two versions. Mine says Semi-Pro on the decal, and they also sold a Pro model. The Semi-Pro like mine didn't come with a chain brake. The felling dog is smaller, and the clutch has only two shoes in it. The full pro version had the brake, bigger felling spike and three shoes in the clutch. Mine is the cheapo model, but is still an excellent performer.