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Originally Posted by juanbenae
Growing up my friend's pops was a Homelite sale rep, and even in the 80's those saw's quality took a strong turn down. He had a shed full of broken/disabled HL junk... I would not be putting this effort into a red saw...  ..... |
In the early 70’s during the energy crisis I worked for a hardware store that sold Homelites. They were good saws, but going downhill even then. They had a model 360 that had an early implementation of vibration isolation that did not work out real well, but one of their older models, the XL was a workhorse. It had nothing fancy on it, even manual oiling. There was nothing to break, except the crankcase side cover had a way of coming loose now and then. Homelite really went downhill when Techron bought them.
Due to the energy crisis, a lot of newbies started heating with wood. A lot of them injured themselves, I still see guys standing over the saw, with the bar aimed right at their foreheads. Some people never learn. And they were hard on chains. I don’t know how many times I had to remind them to keep the damn chain out of the dirt.