Idea for Magnus to enter the Guiness Book...

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... I have stared at the photos a bit, that is one crazy over the top collection. My idea if over six hundred of them actually run, gather same amount of operators, say on a nice spring day, everybody pull starts and runs at the same time... World Record For Simultaneous Chainsaws Starting and Running. Mangus will be famous forever!
 
I am not a big collector by the size of collection. Just a small fish...

I think I have enough to get about 450 running if need be...

Grab a couple boxes of membranes, hose and a barrel fuel we are good to go!

I actually was offered this for real. A orchestra leader made a tractor symphony and wanted saws instead.
He wanted 100 saws of different sizes and 50 operators that could understand him. Saws was no problem....

I cant find that trractor show he made...

But i found this Bolinder-Munktell Viktor helping a couple boy's play.
Idle on these is amazing and this is actually a bit high...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1ThSi1wbqU
The early were known to turn rotation on idle. They sound different, but as a 7 year old boy I could not hear it and left two nasty marks in the wall as I tried to go forward. Later they changed the pumps so they could not turn...
Up till not too long ago this engine was still the most fuel efficient in a tractor.
 
It would be a full time job to just keep 100 saws all in running condition let alone 4-500I can't keep 45 of them all running at the same time .
 
I don't have all running, or I can't say all run. I have run many of them out of curiosity, perhaps 250 different models.
Some I can't get parts for, so I don't risk starting...
Add the customer saws I don't have in collection i bet that is another 100...
It does give a decent perspective.

Still, I don't know much...
 
I know a couple guys that bring saws in by the trailer load constantly. Monster collections
 
I know some of them too .They buy them buy the ton I think .

You know the 2 I am talking about. 1 in Ohio just north of me and 1 in MI = his brother builds some super fast hotsaws.
 
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Gonna have to google the current record .. with one operator per saw ... Magnus could simply go down the line and troubleshoot the tougher starts ...
 
Ha.
Amusing idea indeed.

Mike A got a couple with him last visit here.

If there is 5 or 500 even 2000, there will still not be a collector any were that has all, not even close.
Inly way we collectors will have a chance to even see the saws made is to help each other out and share our collections.
That is were chainsawcollectors.se comes in the picture.
In a brand you can get all models series produced if you are lucky, but that is hard.
Small brands should be easier, but quite opposite in reality as there are often few made and locally sold.

There are many big collectors that never will show their collections. I met a bunch of them.

I know collectors that have under ten saws yet very fine collections! Unique saws is often not harder to find than any other.
Problem is to see they are unique. It is the oppertynity to find that is rare.

Looking on internet sales, markets and auctions. is a sure thing, but if you want the good stuff you need to put more effort in it.
 
I agree there are some that were made in such small numbers most people never heard of them including myself .So rare in fact there is little or no information available about them .
 
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... still amazes me how these early brands and models were the beginning of a revolution... till they hit the scene Loggers used the Axe and Crosscut saw, climbers could rely on a sharp Fanno #8... I have seen some early film of a Homelite two man falling demonstration
 
Can you imagine dragging a big gasoline powered Caterpillar generator up into the mountains of California and using it to power an electric saw that weighed 100 pounds .My Lawd !
 
Decided to make shelves in addic this passed fall.
To do this all saws up there had to go out. Collection saws and doubbles as well as saw pats.
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You can say that... I heard a lot worse as we got them down, sorted, shelfs made and up again.

And then there was the junk saws....
 
I might add this was upstairs only. The saws in shelfs in the shop are all there too.

About half of these in the last pic's were doubles and are in a special wagon outside now. The rest is upstairs in new shelf for collection.
 
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