Funny Chainsaw Ad on CL

I guess he's not happy with this old homelite 330 chainsaw !
Homelite 330

That saw came out after I had gotten away from working on them.

Right after the first oil crisis in the 70's I worked on chainsaws full time for a while. We sold and serviced Homelites, and they were, in general, a good saw. A strange thing I never understood- it's like they had a different engineer in every room, designing his own saw. Why not just scale up, or down, a successful model?

I hate it that my old 360 has become an orphan, and I guess is it just supposed to be a throw away item.

I think I had a saw like that.

That's a riot! I think he's over that saw.

Reminds me of Jay Lenno's "Sold-Not Sold" skits. LOL

I had a saw like that once - a Stihl MS290.....biggest POS ever!

That's why we switched to Jonsereds in about 65 and never went back!

FIL gave me a 360, worked good for a long time....till it needed parts. Now its in the iron pile.

Hey the color of your Jonson is YOUR business. Keep it to yourself!

That one made me laugh out loud. My son has one with the short bar just like the one in the picture. I used it to cut some lumber and poles when we built that new barn last year. I couldn't even run the throttle without skinning a knuckle.

I bought a near new Poulan on a garage sale several years ago. Owner said it absolutely would not cut. Turned the chain around to run right direction and have cut piles of firewood since then.

I looked up the specs on the Homelite 330 and it looks good on the specs, but a former dealer service person said the 330 was the worst bow wow Homelite ever made.

I had a similar experience with a Mcculloch I think was a 3516. Got the first one and it ran fine. The filter design and housing, however; allowed the foam piece to distort and a fine trail of sawdust or dirt looking like a line of ants ran under the filter into the carb. I exchanged it for another and it ran like crap. Too bad for Mcculloch because they to be a dominant brand. They too went tango uniform until someone (Husqvarna?) resurrected the name.

Should have never bought that bridge.

My first chainsaw was a very tiny home lite, so I could limb up trees after dad fell thrm with his gigantic McCullith that looked and weighed like an outboard motor....

Being young, I actually read the manual.

It was funny, they said to use such and such bar oil, unless in extreme cold (below 32F) thrn use a lighter grade.

What?

Who uses a chainsaw when its above freezing? Summer time is for farming, you make wood in winter so it keeps you warm.

I looked at the company more, and at that time they were based in the Carolina's. Ah, I figured, they don't know what 'extreme cold' is!

That was funny to me. extreme cold indeed.

For its size my saw did pretty good cutting up firewood. It had a strange habit of pushing spark plugs apart. When it got to running poorly, you would check and the porcelain of the spark plug would be moving inside the metal base of the plug. hard to get compression that way! Did it to numerous plugs, ran like a champ with a new plug every time.

I'm sure the company is based in China now as all others are, but that was back then,

Paul

The one thing many of the older saws had in common was the point type ignition. The solid state ignition has made them a lot more reliable and you just have to worry about the carburetor and fuel lines. I remember one of my uncles had a big Mcculloch bow saw. He had to cut while someone else cranked (almost). lol

Old timer decided to buy a chain saw and give up the old cross cut saw.

Went to a dealer and the dealer said he would cut 5 times as much wood in a day as he did with the cross cut saw.

First day cutting he worked hard and got less cut than what he did with his cross cut.

Took it back to dealer and said there must be something wrong with saw. Dealer told him he needed to get use to the saw and try again.

Second day he did outdo his cross cut saw but was dead tired.

So he went back to the dealer to see if he could get his money back.

Dealer said there must be something wrong with the saw lets go out back and try it.

Dealer started it up and the old timer asked him what that noise was about. It made no noise when I ran it back and forth.

Gary

Sure can't accuse him of sugarcoating! LOL That was a good one.

I work on chainsaws but avoid newer Homelites. I was unfortunate enough to take a John Deere Chainsaw on trade and discovered it was just a yellow Homelite.
Pull crank was making a noise because two of the three engine mounting screws were broke. Saw wasn't used enough to damage the paper sticker placed on the handle by the inspector, with his name!
The oiler was adjustable but chainsaw had to be basically torn apart to adjust!
Sold the saw for $50.00 and I had next to nothing but labor in it.

Gary;Been telling that story for years,Always make the old guy a Swede firewood cutter!!!!! It's a Swede vs Norwegian thing.ROFLMAO

tango uniform??????

Tango uniform. Nato phonetic alphabet. = T.U.

Think of a dead milk cow with its legs in the air.

Another one we used: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

I would have to agree with his assement. My dad has several old Homelites though and loves them. He cut a lot of wood with his homelite I loaded for him through the years. I had a homelite that I got for free. I used it about a half hour and gave it to my dad. It was an ok saw for the size but I could not feel my hands after using it for that short time (vibration). I am very happy with my stihls though.

Paul, You must be a Minnesotan. "Make wood, not war".

Or like a loadmaster on a C-141 or a C-5 "whisky uniform-tango uniform"

I had two 360"s The motor was ok but the oiler did not work much of the time. I think the oiler had a friction drive, Also when I would work on it , I could not get it started, An old man would help me and tell me I lost a part when I took the spark plug wire off the plug. I always wondered what this lost part looked like.

That's a funny add. I wonder if anyone answered it?

My first chainsaw was a Homelite that I bought used back in the late 70's. I don't remember the model number, but I think it was a 9hp model that was made in the early 60's. The darn thing weighed 28lbs when it was full of gas and bar oil. The exhaust port was open and you could see the piston going up and down when it was running. I cut 12 full cords of wood with it each winter for 5-6 years, and split all of it by hand. Good thing I was young and strong then. My dad wouldn't even pick the darn thing up to move it out of the way. He'd just walk around it. He cut his firewood with a newer Pioneer saw.

Got a good laugh out of that one! I appreciate the guy's honesty.

Dad had an old Homelite back in the '60's that was outrageously heavy. It would start when cold, but after you shut it off hot, it wouldn't start for about an hour. Which was a blessing, because after running it for awhile, your arms were wanting to fall off. So you ran it until you couldn't stand it any longer, then shut it off and went and did something else. By the time it had cooled off enough to start, you were ready for another round.

I think it was a factory optional feature.

It also had a manual oiler- I was tempted to "forget" to press the button, and fry the chain and bar- but I knew my life wouldn't be worth a plugged nickel if I did, which kept me on the straight and narrow.

I came home from Washington State U for Christmas vacation, I think in 1967- Dad was flat on his back with pneumonia, couldn't hardly breathe without going into a coughing spasm. He said, "I know you've got things you want to do with your friends, but your mom and I are kind of in a bad way here. The woodshed is about empty, and the cattle have broken up the feeder and are wandering all over the barn, getting into the hay and wallowing it down. I pulled a bunch of ash logs into the barn before I got sick, and really need you to cut and split a bunch of wood, and repair the feeder. Run the saw until your can't hold it up, then work on the feeder until the saw cools off. I'm sorry about putting all this on you, but its about the only choice we've got." So I set to it, and by the time I went back to school, the woodshed was full again, and the cattle were staying where they were supposed to. And I felt better about myself than if I'd spent the vacation doing nothing with my feckless friends.

I'm sure many of you have similar stories, and I'm certainly not trying to imply that I was some kind of hero. I just did what had to be done (and come to think of it, that's kind of what farming is all about). I think the big problem these days is the kids seldom have "character building opportunities" such as those.

The guy has a real knack for salesmanship doesn't he.

I heard a story back in the 80's while I was stationed up at K I Sawyer Air Base in upper Michigan. Two of the local brothers let's say their names were Eino and Toival, they were Finnlanders and had been working in the woods for years but decided they were going to move on to something else. Eino decides he's like to work for an airline and drives down to Escanaba Michigan and to the world headquarter of Simmons Airlines, he speaks with them and they hire him on the spot. He comes home and tells Toival about his new job. Toival gets excited and jumps in his truck and drives down to Simmons the next day and applies for a job. They interview him and ask him what he does, he tells them he's a firewood cutter. Of course they decline to hire him and explain they don't need fire wood cutter, he asks "but why you hired my brother?" They say yes but it's different he's a pilot, Tovial replies "Yes but he can't pile-it until I cut it"

that was an old Stihl saw radio ad from the late '70's. Tape had a number of Stihl ads on it, meant to be played once a day for 22 days. I still have the tape, from my days as a Stihl dealer. All the ads had a comic theme.