se3388
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Post by se3388 on Mar 19, 2022 21:45:58 GMT -5
When I was a little kid back in the 60's my Dad had an old and LARGE chainsaw but he never used it as it was too big. It had two handles sticking out of the rear with a thumb throttle on the inside of the right handle and the bar was 5 or 6 feet long with a guard at the end with a round silver aluminum handle on it. The bar also rotated so the motor part could be held horizontal, there was a good size oil tank at the motor end of the bar. It had a horizontally opposed engine, pretty sure it was a 4 cylinder with a pull cord that went straight up. If my old memory is close to right I think it had some faded red coloring on it. Does this sound like anything some of you might have seen at one time or the other? Thank you for for helping with an old mans memory if you can.
Steve...........
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Post by w30bob on Mar 20, 2022 3:41:17 GMT -5
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se3388
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Post by se3388 on Mar 20, 2022 8:19:35 GMT -5
Basic layout was very similar but the engine on the one we had was more wider and didn't have the parts sticking up over the more round part of the main engine body. Good try though, great to see that old thing running.
Steve.......
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se3388
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Post by se3388 on Mar 20, 2022 10:24:25 GMT -5
You were on the right track, after some more digging I figured out it was a Disston DA-211. I remember hearing it run when I was little and thinking it was awesome. I think ours was actually a twin cylinder and not a 4 cylinder as I was remembering and the bar might not be as long as I remembered, probably 4 feet long.
Steve...........
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Post by w30bob on Mar 20, 2022 18:38:52 GMT -5
Hi Steve,
Glad you figured it out! My Dad's Disston was his pride and joy. He never actually used it to cut any trees down, it just sat in the garage on the bottom of the racks he kept his other saws and tree cutting equipment. Once or twice a year he'd haul it out and fire it up....and it was a family event. LMAO! I always thought engaging the clutch manually was the neat thing. And yeah, everything was bigger back in the day.....as I was smaller!
regards,
bob
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