Homelite XL?

Therrin

Heyo,

was over at an "antique" shop in a little town of 408 ppl here in Texas, little place named "Blanket" ....

Anyhow, I thought to ask the proprietor if he had any "old chainsaws" so he goes "welllllll i reckon I do have one buried around here somewhere"

So he ambles off and comes back with this Homelite XL. It's a tophandle saw with about a 14 inch bar on it. And it "looked" like it'd probably still run, it was in really good condition.

He wanted $15 bucks for it. Should I go back and buy it or is it not worth it? I wasnt sure if I should pick it up to hold onto just as a collector piece or whatever. If anything I've listened to all you old fogey's on here and I wanted to be able to say "yup, I've got a homelite xl...mmhmm...yup"

Whatcha guys think? $15 bucks? yeah? go for it?

rbtree

Tiny, lightweight saw, but gutless.....never ran them

In that era, I was running the Echo 302S....as the original 020's had issues. Before that, we ran the Homelite Super EZ Automatic.

Model Profile: XL

Anyone into old saws who hasn't seen Mike's site will enjoy browsing it, though it is tedious to navigate.

Therrin

Yup that's it. Is it worth 15 bucks?

rbtree

Sure, as a collector's item.....no chainbrake, no anti-vib, no power, ya wouldn't want to run it....it weighs the same as a 200T, but has less power than a 192T, and is prolly impossible to get parts for.

I paid a bundle for a McCullough PowerMac 6A about 10 yrs ago, reconditioned. It had a bit of power, but was 7.5 lb, not 6.5 as the company claimed. It was by far the lightest saw of its era at least that has some balz....sent it back, took a 40% hit on the refund.....

Therrin

I've got a McCullough tophandle at home that I've stripped cleaned and rebuilt. All I need at this point is the fuel line, but I haven't gotten around to finding one yet. The bore is super clean though, replaced the plug, it gets spark and has good compression.

I think it's an "older" saw, but it'd be nice to have a backup top-handle.



I thought that everyone was raving about how great the old homelite's were?

newguy18

I had one,it ran okay,not as good as my 141 husky i switched to for climbing.

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Alderman

I had one of these given to me and I use it when burning brush to trim up the pile as I feed the fire. It runs okay and for a free saw, I've certainly gotten my money's worth out of it.

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treevet

When I started back 1969 Power Mac 6 was the climbing saw. I had prob 15 or 20 of them. I worked for one company that had about 40 of them in boxes and every day a guy would pick his up, go out and hack it up and return it at the end of the day. Chain tensioner had a tendency to fall apart leaving you to stick a screwdriver in it and force the bar forward while torqueing it down. It vibrated loose when you had an important cut in the tree. Better than that XL as I saw many (not exagerating) get tossed out for not starting when they weren't worth a shit when they did start. Prior to that a mid sized saw was often tied in the tree on a climbing and worked around the tree moved on a climbing hitch.