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Re: HolmenTree Bikesaw Resurrection
« Reply #60 on: January 24, 2018, 07:29:20 pm »
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Williard shoot me a price list just in case I can afford some of them.
Sure will Kevin. I don't have a clue yet but will figure some prices out .
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Re: HolmenTree Bikesaw Resurrection
« Reply #61 on: February 10, 2018, 09:13:55 pm »
Got a good pic at the bottom.
Today I sold my 395XP with Alaskan mill and rails. Also sold my mint 272XP.
A local logging contractor bought them.
At his cottage over coffee he brings out his photo album from the good old days.
Him and I used to compete against each other in the hot saw events in the 1980's. He built a crazy Polaris Indy 650 snowmoblie engine hotsaw burning alcohol. Pushing over 100 h.p. Only trouble he couldn't win with it because he couldn't handle it , lol.

I took a few picks with my phone of his old  photos but he didn't have one clear one of his 650 Indy.
But got a good one of me running my YZ125.
This pic shows how we didn't take PPE seriously back then..... Hahaha
This is when I had it right hand drive with the chain turning in backwards rotation.
Pretty wicked push on the down cuts. If the wood was any bigger it would have pushed me right off the stage.
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Re: HolmenTree Bikesaw Resurrection
« Reply #62 on: February 11, 2018, 11:20:00 am »
Wish I had a video of the wood chip rooster tails that YZ would shoot out.
In that pic we had to make 3 down cuts. The inertia from the backwards engine rotation was pulling the bar down while I was trying to pull it up. The first cookie just hit the deck and when I released the throttle going up for the second cut I accidentally  brought the saw up too high.
Worked really good in the down up down cuts. Sucked in real nice in the up cut.
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Re: HolmenTree Bikesaw Resurrection
« Reply #63 on: February 12, 2018, 08:11:50 pm »
Well it took alot of figuring out but I finally got the YZ bike Saw converted to right hand drive.
What do you think? Hehehe.
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Re: HolmenTree Bikesaw Resurrection
« Reply #64 on: February 12, 2018, 10:32:01 pm »
Did you lighten the bar?
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Re: HolmenTree Bikesaw Resurrection
« Reply #65 on: February 12, 2018, 10:40:10 pm »
Quote from: ray benson on February 12, 2018, 10:32:01 pm
Did you lighten the bar?
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Yes lightened and thinned. I had that short bar made by General Bar Co. Out of Tigard, Oregon back in 1984. The long one is a Cannon.
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Re: HolmenTree Bikesaw Resurrection
« Reply #66 on: November 16, 2018, 04:26:33 pm »
On my tree service winter off season and back on my Yamaha YZ bikesaw rebuild.
Got her running in reverse rotation with the stator plate turned to the opposite end of the 2 slots. Haven't tried it in the wood but WOT sounds really good.
Just weighed it PHO with no pipe. 29.3 lbs. Little over 6 lbs heavier then a 3120XP PHO.
I got room to loose another 5 lbs on the Yamaha;)
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Re: HolmenTree Bikesaw Resurrection
« Reply #67 on: November 16, 2018, 05:42:59 pm »
Looking good
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Re: HolmenTree Bikesaw Resurrection
« Reply #68 on: November 16, 2018, 09:02:05 pm »
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Looking good
Still have a long way to go yet . Lol.
So I'm rebuilding this saw back to the horizontal cylinder profile I originally built it 35 years ago.

Here's before and after.

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Re: HolmenTree Bikesaw Resurrection
« Reply #69 on: November 18, 2018, 02:00:39 am »
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Quote from: ray benson on February 12, 2018, 10:32:01 pm
Did you lighten the bar?

Here's a pic from 35 years ago when I cut 4 holes in that bar. The next day I was cutting 4 round aluminum plates and a couple tubes of JB Weld on hand to glue them in.


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