Chainsaw

[gabkwong]

I have a Poulan chainsaw that starts but only runs for a couple of seconds. It is a hard start unless I tip the blade to the ground first. I wonder if the gas line or the carb is clog!? I took it to the garden equipment repair shop, they want at least $80 to look at it, and will not do so in another 2 weeks!

I plan on take it apart and try to work on it myself. I calculate, the worse I can do is not able to fix it. But than I can use that $80 toward a new one. Anyone has suggestion what to look for in the repair?

Thanks,
Gab

[motorollow]

Gabriel,

I have an electric one you can borrow.

[onething]

I had an awesome chainsaw once. My brother gave it to me and it always started easily, ran great, and served me well. Once, I forgot to shake the gas can to remix the oil and gas before filling the tank on the saw. Fried the engine.

I now have an electric chainsaw. I've had it for over ten years and it has never failed to do what I needed.

Do I go to the forest and fell giant timber? No.

[creek]

Sounds like gas starvation. The jets on those things are tiny and lots of dirt gets in tank. Tipping it down probably floods the carb and lets it start. Give everything a good cleaning with B12 or similar and refill with fresh gas/oil. Does it have one of the little nickle size filter? If so replace that also and check the screen at the bottom of the fuel tank if not.

[channelmaniac]

I had an awesome chainsaw once. My brother gave it to me and it always started easily, ran great, and served me well. Once, I forgot to shake the gas can to remix the oil and gas before filling the tank on the saw. Fried the engine.

I now have an electric chainsaw. I've had it for over ten years and it has never failed to do what I needed.

Do I go to the forest and fell giant timber? No.

The electric chainsaw is much better for you. When you take your finger off the trigger it turns off. Much safer for when you fall off ladders.



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Yeah, check the filter and jets. You may have to disassemble it and force the cleaner through all the tiny holes to clean it out properly.

[Radio-Active]

There was a service bullitin on several brands that were manufactured around 10 years ago, regarding the fuel pickup line in the tank. There was a bad batch of tubing that tended to get minute cracks and caused fuel starvation issues. Checke the primer bulb as well.

[sammm]

Clogged flux capacitor, or maybe a dirty kanooter valve. I'll give you two-fiddy for it.

[MadMonkey]

I'm guessing fuel lines, since the modified Poulan I had in an RC plane ran like a champ

[MadMerv]

How interesting. I rented a Home Depot chain saw on Saturday. Had more trees to cut up in Granbury and a HUGE tree in Springtown that died, thanks to Shelley's mini horses that ate the first five feet of bark! Typically, HD is good about having new chains, a full tank of fuel, and gear oil. Not this time! I rented it in Weatherford, drove to Granbury, and did several hours of other work before starting with the saw. Chain was as dull as can be. Fought it for about 40 minutes before I gave up. Had to wait until my brush fires were mostly died down before I could leave, so a big waste of time. Back to HD, got new chain and oil. Went to Springtown and attacked the big tree. BIG = 22" diameter(no bark) & about forty feet tall.

The new chain worked great..for awhile. Got all branches off, except for "steps" up to twenty-five feet, where I wacked off the top fifteen feet, then came the fun part. Had to drop it and not hit the fence, barn, shed, and a smaller tree. Cut a nice big "V" and anchored the tree at the twenty-five foot height to a stump where I wanted it to fall, with a string of three ratchet straps. So far, so good :) Next was the critical cut on the back side. Cut through just to the point where it was balanced with the tension of the strap. Now the stump I was using for the anchor, was ten feet from the shed and a bit less to the tree........ I started ratcheting the straps and she starts coming down. Not wanting to be crushed, I yelled "TIMBER" as I ran away toward the barn. Oops........my second cut was a bit off level so the tree fell.......dead center on the smaller tree! It actually didn't hurt it too bad, but made it difficult finishing the job, as it was wedged pretty tightly into the "cushion" tree. Piece by piece, I cut it out, then started on the main truck, until the chain saw locked up. I guess it got too hot and seized the sprocket on the tip of the blade. That ended my day.....but I was exhausted and ready. Today, I have aches everywhere. I'm getting to old for this stuff!

[onething]

By the time you add the rental, parts, fuel, time and leniment, you could have hired it all done

[onething]

By the time you add the rental, parts, fuel, time and leniment, you could have hired it all done

Sorry that was misplaced anger. Take a swing at channelmaniac, and we'll all be even

[Titus]

Sorry that was misplaced anger. Take a swing at channelmaniac, and we'll all be even

[gabkwong]

Thanks for the points! I borrowed motorollow's electric chainsaw yesterday afternoon. I was impressed how good it was. My next chainsaw will be electric! Anyway, today I took it back from the shop w/o having them work on it. I will take it apart and do the cleaning. The worse is that I can not fix and have to sell it to Sammm for two fifty! Even this way, I still has my $80+ for the new electric chainsaw! By the way, I have a $10 coupon from Lowes! If you can not use yours, send it this way. I have to buy a blower too! I need to blow all the trash from my yards to my "white trash" neighbor!

[motorollow]

I used my $10 coupon last night at Lowes buying fertilizer and weed killer. Sounds like you might need the $25 coupon that was attached to the $10 one if you are going to buy all of that.