 Diesel chainsaw?????? YES or No?????
Does it exist....many might have ask this question? other's would think it is impossible!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The answer is ...YESSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My latest acquisition...very rare in America.....COMET COMO "B" .
Diesel chainsaw do exist and i am the proud owner of one. The russian did not invent anything but like the chinese copying the russian druzzba chainsaw and selling them as new, i was in china last fall and have seen it...we are going into a world of buyer beware!!!!! they even make true copies of huskvarna and jonsered chainsaw.
Coming back to the diesel stuff, Although a very light and innovative saw, sales were not what the inventor Mr. Wiig had hoped for, so, he took his idea to neighboring Sweden. A company called Como... M. T. Bjerke would now build the Comet in Sweden. This occurred in 1950. The Swedish version of the Comet was called model B.Production of Comet is approximately 1,000 between 1950 through 1953. Verry light saw, 32oz would make her run for 1 1/2 hr....It is a 2 cycle engine that uses an injector type of carburetion system with a glow plug called a tandror working out from propane gaz under pressure inside the handle assembly.
Comet was pruchased by Jonsered and did produced another model...the RACKET XA injector saw. Technology was too advanced for those days and even if those saws could run on diesel fuel, kerosene or gasoline mixed with oil, the production was limited and ceased in 1960.
Hope this was of some interest.......
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Alain, |