HD9 PICTURES

Ok, so I got a scanner to convert slides,negatives and photos to digital. My archives go back to the 1930s it looks like. So naturally my first thought is what's in here for ACs. I scanned,cropped and tweaked these to see if it works. This is our father (the big dude in the operators seat) and yours truly standing on the blade arm. This would be an HD9 we acquired from someone who had abused it and had to leave town
I think this should have been 1973. It was very worn out and the undercarriage was pretty much gone.
We found some used undercarriage and some orange paint and moved it to a logging job.
So, if I'm right about the dates I would have been 20 years old at that time. If any body is looking they'll see that there were black and white dogs then also (never know when there might be a cow around that needs to be regulated). This is my first attempt and these old photos and slides if it works we might have lots of looks to share.

Excellent pics Mel. The `white knuckle` saw on the hood in the third one is fitting for the time

"There's a learning curve with this scanner thing rotate , crop,(start over),save. " LOL

that old saw looks like a homelite super xl or xl-12 i have worked on many of those they were made from the mid 60s til the 90s even allis chalmers had the name on some of those

We started with a Homelite 925 and some smaller ones then saw the light and got Stihls, a great improvement.

Edited by JohnCO - 18 Jan 2015 at 10:49pm

i got a xl925 sittin on the workbench right now we started with mccullochs and then went to homelites and pioneer and then to husky and stihl and we had a few sachs dolmars

john we had a mcculloch pm81 one time it stayed in the shop more than it ran finaly I picked it up from the shop one morning went to the job and pulled and pulled and it wouldn't start we had a treefarmer skidder with a Detroit the boss took the bar and chain off and had the skidder operator run over it picked up what was left and chunked it in the brush headed to town and came back with a p61 pioneer and a stihl 056

thats a 038 with the big bar the best saw stihl ever built the other looks like a 045 or 056 yea mel seems old dozers and chainsaws just go together and old dogs that were more dependable than the help we hired lol

thsts how i learned how to work on chainsaws when i was 14 i went to school and when i got home the guys were comming home from the job and i had to service and get them ready for the next morning and im still working on them till this day the stihl dealer has a couple of young guys doing there service so everytime they get a old saw they call me i had to work on a oiler for them yesterday on a 028 these little poulan junk now days i just tell people if it doesent run just take the bar and chain off and toss the rest in the dumpster lol

Ok, Can't find any more chainsaw pictures that I know we have, but I did find some more HD9 / HD5 pictures
We had lots of room in this landing. We loaded with an HD5G that are father had bought almost new in 1956.
It had flat forks, no top clamps, but if you didn't know what you were missing it didn't matter anyway. It was all about getting the logs to the mill.
We loaded these log on a 1960 peterbilt truck. We didn't use a trailer on this job because the road was so bad and we weren't that far from the mill.

JohnCO wrote: Michale, humping a 925 up the hills we have here at about 7,000' altitude made a man out of me, I was about 28 or 29 at the time.  Was a pretty tough saw though, ran over it once with a Franklin log skidder, took a couple new parts to fix it and it still cut well.  Gave it to an old girlfriend for her wedding gift.  Her husband thought it was a nice gift, but he never had to run it all day!  BTW, he is no longer in the picture but she is still a good friend, especially since we aren't married to each other.

John, I think the 925 was the last of the good old Homelite loggers chainsaw ever made. We also went to Pioneer P-62's when we no longer could find good Homelites! I still have sitting on the back shelf of the shed a C-7, C-8,? (Both Blue) XL-925,X-1020,XL-1050,XL-2000. All running! All work ready!!...plus a few of the later model smaller XL Homelites under the bench. I also concur, they were a very durable saw!!!...     

I still think you need to get that HD41 you mentioned.

I'm thinking a 41 is about 100,000 lb, perhaps minus the ripper and maybe even the blade, which might be too wide to haul anyway.  Got to save that Big Allis Iron!
 As I said before, Sure would look impressive in your yard!

from a spec sheet for a Fiat Allis 41B
Bare weight is 107000lb
HSU blade and drawbar is 128000lb
HSU blade and 41R ripper is 149000lb