OK go ahead and laugh at my Poulan

[Cut4fun]

2100 poulan lives and vibration free with the coil spring AV in the cut. Put my 12" b+c I have always used on the 2000.
Will make a nice trim saw for my uses and I will offer it to my dad because I know for fact it will be easier on his 70+ year old hands then the 2000 I gave him.

 

[MasterBlaster]

If I had to climb with that, I'd stay home.

 

[Cut4fun]

If I had to climb with that, I'd stay home.

Butch light weight trim saw for around the house. Not pro's work

It's just a 2000 top handle 33cc poulan converted to 2100 rear handle with coil spring AV. So much nicer then no av 2000 in the cuts while testing, nothing was felt to hands.

 

[MasterBlaster]

It'd be a fair saw for chipping/whatnot.

 

[treesmith]

There's no telling how many thousands of dollars I made while running a Poulan 2000, but after running a Stihl, I wouldn't go back for anything! Back when I worked for Asplundh, all we had for climbing saws were Poulans.

 

[Cut4fun]

All 3 saws were rebuilt by me and are 70.7cc. Poulan 445, Husky 372, Stihl 440

I thought the 440 was going to be the clear winner with it DP cover and enlarged side exit. Plus I had a little test seesion days before and the 440 I thought was going to be a runaway. Thread http://chainsawrepair.createaforum.com/saws-in-action/70-7cc-test-440-372-445/msg21372/#new

Testing was done in a nice piece of solid 14" ash

All saws ran 7T 3/8 and all were set in the 13.4k to 13.7k range. Chain was a fresh square off w8ye square grinder. Rakers were (guessing 27 to 29) just over 25 but less then 30. Same chain ran on all saws

2 cuts 14" firm solid fresh take down ash.

372 11.87 11.91 stock no muffler mods.

440 10.94 10.93 stock with muffler mod, DP muffler cover with enlarged side exit hole too.

445 10.13 10.44 stock no muffler mods and still had spark screen installed.

I really thought the 445 was going to be the slowest in the cut as quite as it was and throttle response wise out of cut. Even in the cut I thought it might have been the slowest till the times were being read out to me.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Gimme the oh fo fo!!!

 

[Arborkeith]

No way those two were faster than a 372xp...

 

[Cut4fun]

No way those two were faster than a 372xp...

I'm a husky guy and had another husky guy timing the cuts, it is what it is. The 440 has dual port with enlarged side exit for about a .7hp gain. The 372 is stock muffler with spark screen pulled. The poulan is a quad port just like the husky but comes with bigger carb stock. Also poulans muffler was stock with spark screen still installed.

This 440 runs really good IMO and 4 strokes out to 13.7K . The 372 was compared to a 7900 and ran with it cut for cut out cutting, so I consider it a good runner too. The 445 I never really got into any wood till that day.

One thing for sure I'm not brand biased.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I love em all as long as they're orange 'n white.

 

[Cut4fun]

One thing for sure I'm not brand biased.

 

[MasterBlaster]

A rainbow of colors!!!

 

[Cut4fun]

Show you guys one I built for kicks. My version of poulan wild thing.

Here is what the poulan 505 is suppose to look like.

I had 2 more in parts so I took this stuff and build one my way.

I used a stihl 066 piston, partner 5000 coil (stock coil in 505 rev limited), some green and purple paint. Used a husky 268 clutch cover I trimmed up to make the purple cover. Made all of the decals needed too.

 

[Cut4fun]

Finished wild thing 505 82.5cc with 2 sets of covers I figured someday I will run up on a firewood cutter cutting with his plastic stihl and I'll tell him I bet my wild thing can out cut ya.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Frankensaw!!!

 

[Arborkeith]

Haha! Nice one. Dad said today that he thought those old poulan saws would only run about 7600-8k rpm until they blow. I've always used husky but I don't hate stihl. I honestly don't know jack shit about Poulans except for the old super 25

 

[Cut4fun]

Not very old really. Made in the 1990's. That Poulan labeled saw. Is actually a Partner designed saw made in the Husqvarna plant in Sweden.

 

[Arborkeith]

I'll be 27 Saturday. Anything older than 2000 is old to me man .

 

[Arborkeith]

So did poulan have a working relationship with husqvarna before husky bought them?

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Thats friggen frankin awesome !

 

[Cut4fun]

So did poulan have a working relationship with husqvarna before husky bought them?

Looks like 1986 poulan was bought also check out all the other chainsaw companies husky has swallowed up, past and present.

http://husqvarnagroup.com/en/about/history/timeline

 

[Cut4fun]

Stihl dealer estimate was $700 to fix and had 2 weeks, another dealer had it for a month. He finally picked up his saw and drove 50mins to me one way to get ut looked at. Had it a hour tore down figured out why it burned up. Gave options on repair, Redneck it, aftermarket, oem. Redneck repaired for a total of $200. $100 was for new parts.

20 mins of test cutting today so far. :bananawiggle:

As delivered

 

[Jed]

You're the man Kevin. I'd give anything to be able to fix saws like you. Is that a 440 or a 460, and why does the softframe (gas-tank) have a flippy cap, while the bar-oil is the threaded? BTW, why DID it burn up?

Also: Is that a Bailey's muffler? It LOOKS pretty good. Are they duel ported? Why do you run em?

 

[MasterBlaster]

I like the short bar!

 

[Jed]

Yeah, I didn't know Windsor HAD one THAT short.