Wish McCulloch and homelite would make the old saws again that would last and worth rebuilding

One can never get enough vintage chainsaw videos Sir.

I have an XL-76 made by Terry for the Canadian market and she packs a lot of punch! Great video👍🏼

Nice saws there bud...love the old homies myself...thanks for sharing

Great stuff, glad I stumbled upon this channel. Love the Homelite!

Love ur homelites my friend great collection. I recently added the xl400 an the super xl925 to my arsenal. Thank you for your time and video. Stay safe and warm.

Lovely vid. Thanks for sharing with us very good delivery😀

Awesome video! Love hearing about the history of these old saws. Thanks for the other you tuber links. There was one channel I didn’t know about will check it out.

Lay over on the exhaust side is a great pointer, thanks 🤙🪓🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Here again to learn from one of my Chainsaw Sensei's. Wow, super nice collection and variety of saws that you have there. What shocked me was the Homelight saw and how old fashioned AMERICAN ingenuity changed the looks and operation for the better in just two short years of that Homelight and still cutting the weight about 7-8 pounds. Know that because of your videos along with Buckin Billy Ray, Leon that you mentioned and a few others teachers. I've grown a great appreciation for these vintage American made chainsaws. Especially of the Mcculloch line. In just 3 short weeks. I purchased a Mcculloch 140 which unfortunately arrived with some damage which I'll repair and just yesterday. I bought a like new Mcculloch Timber Bear...This can become a good obsession 😁. Will keep looking for more of your videos Sensei, stay healthy and thank you.

Interesting history lesson! 👍

You're the ONLY other person I've ever come across that puts the saw on it's exhaust side to rotate the engine. I also pull mufflers this way to keep carbon etc from entering cylinder.

Hey great video buddy!! Those are great saws and they are a staple of the Canadian firewood cutters arsenal!!

Well done mate.......love all Homelite products...

Nice vid, nice camera work too. I got one from a friend's barn, put a carb kit and cleaned out the tank (a lot), It does not flow fuel to the carb readily so I squirt some gas fuel into the carb and start it couple times. Then runs great. I offered it to my son who heats with wood, and he said a neighbor had one offered to him, and he turned it down- too heavy. So I kept it. I never thought of the muffler crud being able to be drawn into the cylinder. Excellent tip. mike

Great old saws. I have three of them and still use them. The later model with the reed valves had a little more power.

I was driving down the road yesterday and my neighbor had both a XL12 and echo 302, on the side of the road with a free sign. I took them home and found out they both run with zero issues, an the echo is actually ported!! I’m so beyond excited, an they are both in really clean condition!

Love it! I had an XL12. She was a real sweet!

oh, interesting and really helpful to know that I should clean the muffler before starting an old saw that haven't been used for a long time. Before I have never thought about this specific task. 2-stroke engine's muffler has two duties, pressure and exhaust

Smitty sent me! Will be interesting to see that Mac and HL comparison.

I have a Lombard Comango that is the definitely the closest thing to an XL12 of all of them. I have one of those craftsman 3.7 chainsaws with the self sharpening pieces and I have the same saw with the name Scottsdale on it! I love the look of the Remington saws, I have in my collection a SL-5 Powerlite, SL-9, And a huge demo saw Pow-R-Cut in my collection.Thanks for sharing old timer!🤗

Those ropers are beasts.

If somebody made an XL12 or Super XL today I would buy me a new one. An exact clone of the late 70s Homelites before electronic ignition failure, I meant to say "module" would be about perfect.

Hi my friend!!😀😀 I have a Xl12, a super XL and a 400 automatic. I don't use any of them to actually cut any of my wood. I just pull them out and play with them once in a while. It's funny that all the channels you suggested I'm already subbed to. My dad started cutting pulpwood for a living when I was 5 years old and the saw he first had was a XL12. He wore it out in a couple years and then he began running Stihl saws and him and I have been running them ever since. I'm 54 years old now and he is 75 and he still cuts and sells firewood to this day. I just love your collection of saws. It would be nice to see your whole collection at one time. 😀😀 Take care my friend!!😀😀👍👍 Logger Al

I have heated a 120+ year old drafty farmhouse for almost 30 years with a Homelite Super XL. Over the years, the boys and I have bought, owned and used other saws...Echo, Dolmar, Husqvarna...and they are ok, but my good old go to standby is the SXL!

Great video , I am looking for information on pioneer P51 . the older ones are built to last .

Poulan made a 361. Its a copy of the homelite. Those things run forever. Nice video.

Have you ever watched Ironhorse? You guys should talk. Thanks for sharing.

You can fix that air filter cover with JB Weld, pretty easily. Put a piece of electrical tape over the crack on the outside and pack the crack from the inside. This will give you a smooth rounded edge on the outside, so you won’t have to sand and file the outside down. Clean the crack with break cleaner before you start. My MAC 610 was the same way. I fixed it and then painted it. Looks pretty good, now.

I like those old Lombards and homelite. I’m already subbed to all those guys and now I’m gonna be connected to you also 🤙🪓🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

I love that xl

I would feel so much better running these old Homelite chainsaws if they had a hand guard, or a chain break. I worked for the U.S.F.S fighting wildfires with a Stihl 056. Those Homelite saws look like they're ready to take a finger off.

I am trying to work a trade for an XL-12. I know it has a broken bar stud, which I will have to replace. It probably also has all the other typical problems, too. I know it has pressed in bar studs, like the husky. That makes it a little more difficult to replace than screw-in bar studs. I will check it out and clean it up when and if I can work a trade for it. I still have not finished restoring an HS-45 hedge trimmer, yet, I have its new cylinder and piston but they left out the circlips for the piston. I have ordered them from Stihl but that may take a while.

Nice 👍

My neighbour has 3 vintage saws for me , I just have to go get them . I think they’re all homelites I only know one is an XL-12 not sure what the other two are . I should really go there and get them soon. Loo

Thanks... your xl12 is like mine but I don5 have the dog spikes. I started mine for first time since buying...it went but wouldn't stop throttling at high speed. I assume to choke you pull out the knob...is that right?

I like the mulch ring around what I suppose is a fruit tree in the background. My peach and apple trees have a similar mulch round around them. I put 5-10-10 under the mulch around my trees in the fall and 10-10-10 in the spring. I also sprinkle some borax around them in the late winter to help in flower set.

I have the replacement air cover you need. Let me know if you need anything else. Thank's for the shoutout and today you will get to see your new saw working in action!

I just picked up that homelite, did homelite have a 932 because I just picked up one of those. He said it was a 93? Thanks

There was definitely a quantum leap in chainsaw technology, but the more modern designs began to appear before 1964. I'm not sure who done it first, but take a look at the McCulluch Mac 1-40. It looked a lot like your XL-12 in 1958. And the Mac 1-46 came out in 1962.

I inherited some new "old stock" Homelite saw chains. There is nothing on the box that indicates to me what length the chains are and the new stock numbers on chains are different. I didn't keep the saws...those went to auction. Now I'm trying to move along the chains. How can I know what length they are? The end of the box says 38-L50-59HSV and J1-92059-EB Upper right corner says H3 Upper left corner 3/8 in 9.3 MM and lower left corner says .050 in 1.3 MM There is a label on the side that says Fits Models: and includes many different models including the XL-12. I have someone interested in buying the chains but he's asking me if they for a 20 inch saw. Is the length hidden in that code on the end of the box? Thanks for any help. After watching the video, I wish I'd kept the saws!

..McCulloch 10-series is a closer comparison than the 600-series to the Homelite...production lasted almost as long, also...Lombard made a series of saws that were quite similar...the Pioneer 1100 & 1200 series are very close...but to me, the closest clone they made was the Poulan 361...although they don't seem to be nearly as common as the Homelites, or even the McCulloch 10's or Pioneers....

Mr OVH, per your comment on my comment I deleted, (I figured the model/years made wasn't worth arguing over). The 610 series (Power Mac and Super Pro Mac) was a 3.7 ci saw made from '78-'85 and '85-'94 respectively. So about 16 years vs the Homies 30 something. The much older 6-10/6-10A ran from '68-'72 and was a 3.7ci saw, the Super 6-10A was a 4.3 ci saw that ran from '68-'70 before becoming the 7-10A. Before that it went back to the 3.7ci 2-10 from '65, which as you note was one of the first Macs with a horizontal cylinder arrangement like the XL. These "dash series" saws were pretty much all metal, very little in the way of AV dampening, no chain brakes, etc. A Mac that would be closer to the XL would be the 10-10 which is a 3.3 like the XL and dates from the same era. As for the difference between the Power Mac 610 and Pro Mac 610, near as I can tell it's carb differences. There may be some shielding or chasis changes I can't discern on line. I can't find any specific reference to a Power Mac 610 that doesn't include the "Super" label. My point was the 610 series was a much later saw than the XL Homie. The Super XL was a 3.5ci saw, a little closer to the 610. I think you make a valid point on the game changer that the XL was at the time. There may have been other horizontal cylinder set ups before the XL, but the XL certainly was state of the art for the US market at that time. And it was the first consumer marketed saw too, or at least the first to really appeal to the consumer end of things. I think you be hard pressed to find many saws that made such an impact until the Stihl/Husky/Jonsereds of the 70's hit the market. The AV systems, safety systems and high RPM designs kinda stole the show from the the solid US names like Homelite, McCulloch, Pioneer and Poulan (which most today don't know was a pro grade saw at one time and not found in a Walmart!). No offense was intended. When a company produces a 6-10 and a 610 things get confusing. Pioneer also had a 610 and both Husky and Homelite had 2100's. You'd think they'd try not to confuse old guys like us, but such is not the case. Today you can buy a Husky 372 and a Holtzforma "Husky" 372! I'm with you, I'll stick to the old stuff!

Hi from colorado.

Bought a super xl automatic but last guy got his gas cans mixed up and ran regular gas in it and burned the piston up can’t decide rather to fix it back stock or have it gone through and port it and bore it out

What is the proper angle of chain for cutting frozen hardwood fella ??? Thanks

Mr. Obsolete do you have a 1959 Husky chainsaw? If not what Husky’s do you have? Love your shows!!

I have a fairly mint xl12 super, and it compression tested at 145

Iv got 7 homlites xls super xl and i got 4 sears one orange one i got runs awsome

I keep my XL 12 and Super XL on top of my china cabinet but always keep em loaded with fuel and ready. When I'm done using em I blow em out with compressed air and put em back up.

Known fact about the infamous xl12. They made them from 1966 to 1988. Not 1964. Longest running production saw for ANY company

Anyone have a substitute part number for the coil? They quit making the coil for them. I know you can bake the coil and possibly bring it back to life. But I would appreciate a part number for a substitute if anyone has one. My grandpa purchased the saw around 1973. I remember it like it was yesterday. Until then we cut wood with a crosscut saw. Happy days!

I like the new pull cords ‘ wrapping rope round start reel was awfull the knot on the end of thr rope allways wacked me on the head

Boy,I need to find a coil for my old xl12..can anybody help me..

I believe that Japanese also coppied the generic design of Homelite XL-12.

My pioneer 1110 looks reallly close too

12.5 pounds of fun

Any idea where the bar oil tank is and where to fill it ?

I started buying old saws including a xl 12 ,while modern husky is ok I dont like the carbs on the consumer models

Wow manual oiling. That must be a real pain the ass.