Been chasing down air leaks today. Used up the last bit of brazing rod I had. About 10 years ago was the last store buy and I thought it was high then. Bought a handful at auction for $5 since then. Went to the supply house today and sure had sticker shock with the inflation price. The brazing rod is not all that bad when I look at all the gas I am saving.
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Yesterday there was an event in our small village, GodegĂ„rd Summer Meet, alot of old cars, trucks, tractors, motorcycles and other old, âvintageâ stuff. Me and some friends displayed and showed old chainsaws, there was a great interest from the visitors.
A part of my collection.
I also ran my hot-bulb ignition engine, people like to listen to these slow-runners.
When showing chainsaws we cut this thin discs, or âcookiesâ in the chainsaw world, just to make the display wood last longer.
Guess whos got to bring them home? And what they are excellent for?
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Those cookies are how I process any log wood I have, and I just break them up with my hatchet. Very cool pictures thanks for sharing!
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I have six saws Goran. I thought I was a high roller. Your collection makes me look like a chump. How about a close up picture of some of those saws. They are very interesting.
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Yeah, thats kind of an âaddictionâ for me 
i love old sawâs
I can of course post some close-ups if there is interest, only afraid to âinfectâ this forum with my old scrap
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Itâs Mulberry season and the squirrels are loving it. Also hereâs a crappy picture of my favorite tree, our Japanese Maple. Grandpa had the tree planted here when the house was built in 1960.
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Make sure you donât have laundry hanging on a clothes line when those mulberries are ripe. 
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The grandchildren love ripe mulberrys the tree below the orchard is going to be loaded this year. Purple faces and hands and Clothes? Well it happens.
Bob
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I should get my stepladder out and start picking the ripe ones. Iâm sure they keep in a freezer for a long time.
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Sidenote was doing some much needed maintenance on my momâs John Deere zero turn. M653 model with the 22hp Kawasaki V twin. She put in a trailer hitch adapter to pull leaf collectors but we havenât used that in such a long time, leaving the clippings and mulched leaves made our yard so much healthier.
Every time I look at that mounting bracket it screams, âPut an updraft charcoal unit on me!â. Maybe when gas gets more expensive sheâll let me do just that.
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Bought 4 of these small drums. 10 gallons in capacity, all came with lids and locking rings. Held some kind of aluminum paste. He has more and I think Iâm gonna have to buy more.
Top diameter is 15", bottom diameter is 14". 19" tall.
Definitely going to buy more, heâs selling them to me for 10 dollars each and I knew him in school. Will make good filling lids and filter bodies I think.
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Makes me drull like a kid over a lollypopp.
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Having a fish fry with dad. Swai, hush puppies, German fries, and fried shrimp.
Donât know why we call them German Fries, dad says thatâs just what grandpa called them. Bake a potato, slice it lengthwise a few times then deep fry it until crispy.
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We call them JoJos potato weges up here, really good.
Bob
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You are the king of saws Goran. I am especially curious about the first three in your original picture. I think I have seen some old Sachs-Dolmar saws that looked similar. Is the farthest saw on the left with the handle on the nose of the bar an Old McCulloch?.
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Goren we had a local saw shop owner with an amazing chainsaw collection also.
Wayne of Amboy SawShopâŠ
He âretiredâ from his own shop and became the regional Stihl factory representative for the dealers.
He was always on the look out for some rare, rare European limited made diesel saw.
You heard of this one? You have this one?
Regards
Steve unruh
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I found this about the European diesel chainsaw:
Apparently originally a Norwegian, then evolved Swedish produced series of saws 1950-1954 (later as a Jonsered xa, xb).
Not so diesel engine heavy.
Not so weak powerful at 4 hp.
Smoky, smoky, smoky as seen by the youtubes!!
S.U.
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This morning I loaded a load of calves and realized I had a couple of young birds on board. They made a 30 mile round trip DOW and back home safe .
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Hi Tom, no i dont have any McCulloch two man sawâs, itâs something i really want for my collection, unfortunately they never made it to Sweden, only way is probably to âimportâ one, ebay or like, but the shipping should cost more than i can handle for this âhobbyâ.
The 2 sawâs with helperâs handle in the background are a Rexo (French, 1947), and a Dolmar (German, 1936).
I dont know which ones you mean, but the 3 up front, from left are Norwegian made, JO-BU, model: Senior, Junior and Starlet.
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Steve, l looked up some videos. Smoky is a understatement. Seems like those saws burn maybee 12% of fuel injected, the rest gets used up as a smokescreen 
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Hi SteveU, fun you mention, Wayne Sutton i recognize from chainsaw collectors forum, i think he has, probably the nicest collection in the world, heâs done many amazing restorations, of very rare sawâs.
As for the diesel i think he has found some if i remember correctly.
And yes, i have one, Como Comet diesel, very fun saw, actually a semi-diesel, ignites with the help of a hot tube, much like hot-bulb ignition engines.
Where i post picâs of my collection it can be seen at first pic, in the middle of next to bottom shelf.
Ah, and about the smoke, these was made to run of gasoline, kerosene or diesel, gasoline was highly recomended for power and almost smokeless. They where never popular to run on âstraightâ diesel, because of the heavy smoking, and trouble with idling.
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