VINTAGE TOP HANDLE CHAINSAW.YOU NEED ONE…

[@EightWheelsRollin]

I agree with you 100%, great little saws. Everyone should have at least one!

[@benrafter6078]

I have always had an ms170 Did everything just fine i suppose But when i bought my first homelite off you, the stihl spent a lot of time at home l Man i am stoked to get xl2 back! Dirtbike mounts coming up lol thanks man!!

[@Indeewoods]

Well Ben your XL2 is set up at 3300 idle and revs out at 10,450 rpm. Spec is 10-11,000. That’s with the muffler mod. Typing it on here so I don’t forget what it’s at.

[@reddogsaws]

The amount of giggles that old xxxv gets when I pull it out at camp to cut firewood is hilarious. At the moment I'm rebuilding a 81xxv with a carb off a wild thing and pod filter, I'm also in the process of removing the epa off a 2400 woodmaster (last xxv made) which is heavily restricted just does not sound the same it has a smaller carb and a restricted exhaust

[@Indeewoods]

Awesome! Ya Years ago we were on an ridibg an 8 wheeled Argo on a 2 day trip. My buddy had this old top handle Poulan and I was recording him cutting with it. I was saying something about “micro” and years later I wondered what I was talking about but then when I got into old saws I seen the name “Micro XXV” lol So I haven’t really done much cutting with one since then but that little Yellow Mastercraft I have is a 2350 model with the 38cc engine and it really rips!

[@reddogsaws]

@@Indeewoods I trust me you know you're mad when you're useing a xxv to bore cut in a 14in gumtree my biggest pet peeve that they only got 1 bar nut it feels like your going to break it

[@Indeewoods]

Ya I talked to a guy that was incharge of marketing those saws and he was talking about how only having the one bar was fine foe 10-12” but anything bigger there would be problems.

[@KainKustomGarage]

I love those little saws! 😊

[@Indeewoods]

Ya they are fun ti run.

[@chainsawcanuck]

That Bandit is so mint!!

[@Indeewoods]

Ya it was only used a handfull of times I’d say.

[@worldsfastestube7302]

Man your saws cut and you know them well I'm amazed you don't make things from wood My Honda red was indestructible CYU

[@Indeewoods]

Well I just built a fence if that counts. Lol Ya those old Honda’s were tough

[@worldsfastestube7302]

@@Indeewoods Yup it does if you hand picked the nicest boards LOL

[@Indeewoods]

I cut the trees then milled the boards myself.

[@mrobsoletesvintagehomestea9156]

Funny we have both been fiddling around with the little Homelites lately. My buddy Mr. C gave me a small pile of them recently and my buddy Randy just gave me a 240. Most of these have been in recent video's. My Super EZ auto will be in a new video soon, as I just got it running. I really like the full wrap bar, and it seems to have good power too. For years I only had a couple of the small Homelites, and gave them to my boys. They don't use them anymore, and donated them back in the pile. So far the little Homelites that I have running, perform pretty darn good. Fun with old saws !

[@Indeewoods]

Been busy lately so I’m not up to date on those videos but I will be checking them out soon. Ya those little saws are fun to run for sure. Very handy while i’m on my travels on the side by side (sxs) for clearing trail. I put a new gas cap on one of my little top Handle Poulans and it changed the way I think of that saw. It leaked out the cap before so I didn’t want to bring it with me as it would leak all over my gear. Some think they not worth rebuilding but nobody makes a tiny gas powered saw like that anymore other than the Chinese knock offs but even those are heavier than the little Poulan XXV or Homelite XL’s. I will check out the vid on that 240. I had one dropped off at my doorstep and wanting to get it going.

[@mrobsoletesvintagehomestea9156]

The Poulan xxv's seem to have had a lot of quality control issues. Some of mine have had little use, and are unreliable, but others have given good service. I think that they made a pro version of these saws, but have never seen one, but I have received comments about how good they were. Some of these were built down to a price, and had bushings in the clutch drum, which would make all kinds of noise after a half hour of use. I replaced the clutch assemblies that had a needle bearing in them, which solved the problem, and the clutches were actually larger also. My Mac Mini Mac's are a lot better saw though, and that's what I use most. It will be interesting to see how the little Homelites work out when I get them in the wood.@@Indeewoods

[@Indeewoods]

Yes I was talking to the main salesman for the company and I think hecwas saying in order to be competative they had to make changes to these saws. It’s always fun when you can do little upgrades to make something reliable that originally wasn’t.

[@mrobsoletesvintagehomestea9156]

@@Indeewoods Yes it is.

[@Indeewoods]

I’m going to take a break from raking leaves and wondering when were the first leaf blowers/vacuum’s built. Got any old vintage stuff like that?

[@joshuamoes]

Got an xl2 metal body, diafram went bad so just put a carb kit in it. Just gotta get it to idle properly now.

[@Indeewoods]

Does yours have just the one mixture screw?

[@joshuamoes]

@@Indeewoods Thankfully not, it has a walbro hdc 65 with both low and high jet.

[@Indeewoods]

You I got that fixed jet carb running pretty good but the other carbs with high and low are easier to fine tune.

[@joshuamoes]

@@Indeewoods for sure👍

[@ryanhubble9157]

I got a whole collection of the poluands craftsman and ever the rare 23 compact husqvarna

[@Indeewoods]

Is the old Husqvarna a rebadged Frontier? If so I have one of those as well. Made in Canada

[@ryanhubble9157]

Its a rebadged 2300 cva poluan

[@Indeewoods]

@@ryanhubble9157 I looked it up on CCC and your Husqvarna 23 Compact is actually a rebadged Poulan Pro 180. The 2300 CVA was anti vibe in both handles the Husky 23 had no antivibe. The Poulan Pro 190 seems to have same specs at the 180 but maybe came with a longer bar. The Husqvarna had it’s own unique ribbed handle as well.

[@ryanhubble9157]

Your right lol i got confused to many saws i have a couple 2300 cva poluan pros that are orange to lol out of 30 saws somtimes i lose track

[@ArtietheArchon]

probably all these old saws of yours are reed valve intakes...a lot more potential for power than a piston port design like almost all saws today

[@jonnis240]

I want a top handle saw after this video. Should i buy a saw with a chain brake? Safer?

[@Indeewoods]

Well I can’t say what you should and shouldn’t do but some feel the chain brake make operators careless. There are some saws line the Poukan 2350 CVA that came with antivibe and a chain brake but the safety features adds quite a bit of noticable weight.

[@jonnis240]

I have a question i always wanted to ask. I see people take out the pull cord when they stop the saw. Why? 🙂

[@em4703]

It's the proper way to shut off old school saws and modern Echos. Its because the "claws" that engage the pull start assembly are on the flywheel itself, so when the rpm is low enough, like the last second when the engine is shutting down, they will engage the rope starter because there's not enough centrifugal force keeping the claws disengaged and their spring will bring them in, pulling on the cord a bit and over time it can break the handle off. This is not an issue with modern Stihl and Husqvarnas as the claws are inside the side cover itself, in the cord pulley, and only engage when manually pulling the handle.

[@Indeewoods]

@E M said it perfectly.

[@Indeewoods]

Great explanation. To add to that it used to sometimes snap the end off the crankshaft on high compression motors I’ve heard.

[@em4703]

@@Indeewoods Holy crap, ouch. I don't think my lil Echo 2511 can snap the crank, but I'm not taking any chances 😅

[@Indeewoods]

Ya I don’t think so either. I just pull the handle by habit now most little saws don’t kick back.

[@williambray4134]

I dunno about everyone needing a top handle chainsaw. Not everyone has the common sense to know that even top handles have two handles for a reason.

[@Indeewoods]

You mean two triggers?

[@williambray4134]

Nope, handles. There's two handles because they're designed to be used with two hands. This is also the reason currently manufactured top handle are significantly more expensive. It's to deter people from buying them as it's tempting to use them one handed because they're center balanced.