Flywheels & Pulleys chainsaw display

[Rene Elliott]

Constableville is between the Tug Hill and Adirondack regions, so the local engine show there has a bit of logging stuff. there was a McCulloch display, where I co-miserated with a fellow 10-10 owner with the same case of "woods-fright" (runs in the backyard, but not out in the woods, due to intermittant coil function). We had to chuckle at the MMcCulloch sign that says "Keep New York Green". There also was a nice display of rare saws, like an A.C. Lamb, Sally saw (rotating circulating blade), Power Machinery, etc. set into a cut log starapped down to a car trailer. (I've thought about doing this with a couple of slabs hinged, maybe with a cross section slice of log tacked on the ends, to save weight). And I only bought one old saw, appears to be another 7-19 only with different blade placement, but got two N.O.S. spools of Oregon chain from the Red McDevitt agency that used to be in Syracuse.

[Rene Elliott]

a Porter Cable saw too, and big 2 man Mercury Disston, a good cross section of saws locally used when crosscut saws first were put aside.

[Rene Elliott]

ok try more pics this time

[Rene Elliott]

McCulloch display, as I said, the "Keep New York Green" sign lead to some rude comments about McCulloch performance, and of course the "Payne" dealer sign could be taken to mean something else too. But all in good fun, I cut a lot of firewood with McCullochs for 15 years before I switched to Husky. Of course my brother and I once cut off the neighbor's hedgerow, and I could drop the first tree with an axe and do some limbing before he could start grandad's old 10-10, and stay ahead of him all morning, I still say if I didn't have to drag and stack the brush in piles I could have stayed ahead all day long.
On barn post in the background, is about a 5' bracket sticking out with string attached to a large washer, the game was to swing it in an arc and see if you could catch it on a peg driven in down on the far side of the post, something to keep very bored people amused would be my guess.