while riding around I came across this free pile and in the mix was this vintage john deere chainsaw that has seen better days. lets see what happened to it and if it will come back to life.
Man I love the stories you tell while filming what you do. They're almost as good as watching you fix up old junk. Always look forward to mustie1 Sunday postings.
Gotta tell ya, watching your videos has inspired me. We had a council cleanup here in Moss Vale, Australia, which is about the only time you see free piles, and took home a Yard King 138cc mower and a line trimmer. The mower had some handle bolts missing and a small hole in the plastic fuel tank, which I was able to address without any problems. Took down the carb and cleaned it and it runs really well. The line trimmer needed a bit of love with the thing being stored for years with gas in the tank, which had evaporated and the ethanol had turned to tar. So lots of cleaning out the tank, and carb, replaced the fuel lines, filter and gas cap, and it, too, came back to life. Cost me $6 AUD. Couldn't have done it without ya, Thanks.
@@majesticskeever And it's somewhat cheaper than 95, so people buy it for their mower. Most servos with E10 don't have a non-ethanol fuel below 95, so if your preferred servo carries E10, and you don't know any better, you're putting that in the mower.
I just looked up Cross Castle. Apparently it cost $1.5m to build back in 1907, and the family sold it for just $155,000 in 1919. 12 people were employed full time just to cut wood for the fires!
Your description of growing up burning wood and coal sure brought back memories. We too burned wood/coal. Had heat in two rooms. Kitchen and bathroom. Banking the fire every night. Getting up at 5 am to get the fire back up. Shaking down the shaker grate in the morning. And recharging with wood and coal. Taking out the ashes every morning and spreading on the compost pile. Cutting and chopping lots and LOTS of firewood. Dad would get coal in larger chunks as it was cheaper. My brother and I would use sledge hammers to break it down then shovel down the coal shoot. Always smelled like wood smoke and coal dust. Kids at school would make fun of us for how we smelled and how stained/rough our hands were. How dirty our boots were. When I got to boot camp after high school couldn’t believe I didn’t have to get up and tend the stove. Actually got to sleep in until 530am. Still woke up at 5 and silently got ready for am PT. Always the first one out of the barracks, bunk made, foot locker squared away. About day 4 or 5 of boot camp, DS asked me, “You’re a farm boy right?” “YES SERGEANT!” He winked at me and said, “Me too” Then chewed me out for some perceived infraction. That was a long time ago. Thanks for the videos and the commentary. Hadn’t thought about those things in over 45 years.
I feel like I'm in a small engine repair class, and Mustie is the instructor. I always learn something new when I watch your channel. Very informative. And, well photographed and edited, we appreciate your effort. Thanks
@@geoffquickfall Sorry i'm a bit late Geoff (3 weeks late). Came to say the same thing. We have been bumped into, dropped, knocked and near-misses, but I think this is the first time we got a full squirt in the eye. And the vision was blurred as the liquid ran down the lens, felt like I had been blinded. 😉 Yes, funny that it almost felt real. Good on ya.
Probably just a normal comment for you, but i watch Alot of youtubers fixing everuthing from chainsaws to 80 tons excavators, but im absolutely looking more forward to your videos. Its just like fixing things with a best friend IRL. Thanks for being you, and showing us a great time bud! Regards from Norway!
Mustie is the best - he's got a great, relaxed personality, doesn't use annoying music in his videos, knows what he's talking about and takes the time to explain things while casually chatting to his viewers. Can't really fault the guy, this is easily my favorite repair/maintenance channel.
Helt enig. It's a pity that we don't have the same culture in Norway with free stuff at the side of the road. Every thing goes to the recycle centers and we are not allowed to pick anything there.
Been watching Darren for years now.. Always great content and dialogue. The dialogue really makes it. You should also like Rainman Rays repairs.. Another channel I watch religiously. Daily content too.
This saw is the same as the echo 452vl. It has an auto oiler as well. It also has points ignition. On echos, the VL is vibration dampen, and the EVL is electronic ignition and vibration dampening. Cool saw.
Yup, I own Echo's for the last 40 plus years and imo right up there with the Steelie... the 14'', was my first & the best, extremely light as a feather, which did 75% of the work. & loved the re fueling & oil being on the top...
As a young man I worked in a wood and metal shop that built restaurant tables and booths. It takes a lot of compressed air and push brooms to keep it clean. The last hour or so of the workday was for clean-up. The shop manager/co-owner would do a walk through inspection on occasion and if the shop wasn’t clean enough we couldn’t punch out on the time clock and get our weekly paychecks. Inspections were usually on Thursday. We worked 4, 10 hour days. So on Thursday we made sure to clean very well because a bunch of you folks wanted those paychecks and start to party for our 3 day weekend!😂
@@dennisphilbrick1623 Quite simple: he is a project man who does this find/repair/sometimes flip it for profit scheme on the regular and he keeps the camera on. That's how he does it and he found it out makes him more and more money as the channel grows. No big mystery there--he's one of the busiest men out there
Hey, Mustie! I was raised in Passaic, NJ and used to go to Greenwood Lake when the drinking age in NY was 18. The cops used to wait for us on Clinton Rd as we came out of NY and try to pick us off for DUI. I never got caught but some of my friends did. That was back in early 70's. To quote an old song: "Those were the days my friend".
I grew up in Summit New Jersey and we'd take the train into the City and hit the bars to get loaded when we were underage. The only ID we ever needed was cold hard cash. If you could pay for drinks they'd serve us. We loved it. Then going home we'd buy beers in a deli and brown bag those on the train. We were delinquents.
Ive been here, a subscriber for years and am super impressed with how little your channel has changed over time , I've seen so much growth but so little change. Awesome dude and a awesome time hanging out in the shop. I thank you Darren for all the great memories and learning experiences. I started watching when I was about 17 or so and never miss a video! Not asking for any praise I'm just expressing how great you and your content is!! Keep it up!
Mustie1 - Unlike most chainsaw bars, the one on that wee John Deere has a "right way" and a "wrong way" to mount. Currently it is the right way round at the start of the video! From memory they were a low kickback design from Oregon. The saw is a Kioritz Echo - built and branded for John Deere. There are collectors for the JD and Echo saws.
Usually in the fall people would come into the shop with their chainsaws (not this vintage though) and complain about it not running after they got it started. The primary reason for that usually was because the muffler was packed with residue from the 2-cycle oil. A quick burnout of the spark arrestor with a propane torch and a saw would run after starting, then we sold them a chain sharpening, bar, or whatever we found looking it over. It wasn't to gouge them, but homeowners as a rule need guidance on small engines to steer them toward repairs they wouldn't necessarily think to do themselves. We never pushed, but more often than not they would go with our suggestions. Our best day was when I processed 300 repair tickets and called back 150 the same day to pick their equipment up. There were 3 small engine repair mechanics and one specifically for the 2-Cycle jobs. No piles are available here on the curb like this, but my family does attend estate sales and often get things like this that just need a little bit of care, and then we turn around and sell them.
Awhile back my dad's weed eator just stopped running one day and I looked at it and that's what it was the spark arrestor was clogged, luckily it was removable so I cleaned it and it ran like brand new
Yeah I had a Stihl chainsaw and it was running terrible and I bought another $2 carburetor for that didn't help. Until I looked in the spark arrestor which was packed full of look like lava rocks 😦
On the end of the bar, there is a small hole next to the sprocket. I'll usually put the tip of my grease gun against it and give it a squirt. The bar chain oil doesn't get down to that bearing, so a bit of tacky grease helps.
I occasionally take the bar and chain off for a full cleaning of sawdust in the bar track and sprocket area. After it's clean, I'll dump an ounce out so of oil on the side of the bar and work it into the track and sprocket area. Then reattach to the saw with the chain and dribble a little more on. Then after a few minutes of setting I'll fire it up to fling off the excess and it's good to go. I also turn my oilers up to max output. Cheaper to use more oil than burning up motors and bar/chain combos
My favorite part of these videos is the way Mustie just laughs whenever he comes across something that is crusty or busted on whatever he is working on. Great content, love watching!
Home of the Highlanders, class of '85! Mustie1, great to hear these stories, 100% facts. I'm from the same neck of the woods, Northern NJ. So cool to hear the stories continue to carry the legend. Clinton Road and the history behind it are still alive and well!! Keep the stories alive! Cheers!😎
"let's see how it works"..few content providers say that..and like when Mustie takes that extra step..knowledge and understanding is the best teacher..thx Mustie
Hi Mustie, on almost all two stroke, the needle closest to the engine is low mixture, and initial setting is 1 1/2 turns for low, and 3/4 for high. Love watching you!!!
Echo saw / kioritz corp... A good tool is a timberline chain sharpener. It clamps on the bar & a hand crank turns a carbide cutter, right angles every time.
Bonus episode, not only do we get to check out and fix a John Deere chainsaw acquired free, but Mustie1 tells us more about his youth in what sounds like an ideal basis for a John Landis or Steven Spielberg coming of age movie 😂😂
That fluid that came out of the chain oiler reservoir looked more like transmission fluid,.....that could be part of the issue too. Way too thin! Good fix Darren.
@@wallacejeffery5786 I do use my used tranny fluid for alot of things, especially when using my drill press. Probably fine for bar lube too. You will just need alot of it. lol
@@duckhunter8387 I've never seen bar and chain oil that wasn't red. Of course, I don't saw much last 20-odd years, but the 70's, 80's, 90's, anything I ever bought was tinted red.
@Madison Hadley you're definitely right. Looks a lot better in Echo colors, only older saws I've been around were McColluch Mac saws, I prefer my huskies now
@@madisonhadley7906 Yep. I've got a 452vl in the original case with original bar and purchase receipt. I kinda had a fetish for collecting saws years ago. My "work" saws are a 500vl and a 51sv. I love em.
The issue with fueling, if you put the fuel screws back the way you wrote down, you actually flipped them so they're in the wrong places. Watch carefully =)
All the stuff you're describing about the area of North Jersey you grew up in, I heard all the same stories about the Pine Barrens in South Jersey. We would call the people living in the Pine Barrens "Pineys" The Pine Barrens are huge and at a minimum go well into central Jersey. I like camping in the Pine Barrens. Lots of fun.
70s in the UK and the miners strikes we as kids would walk the train lines that came from the mines ( NE England) and fill bags up with dropped coal along the lines. Downside was a few stones would get put into the bags ( we got bored shitless picking coal) so sometimes a stone would get dumped into the fire and they would explode and fly out like a bullet! Our house was bloody freezing in the winter with only a coal fire and back boiler for hot water. Upstairs was so so cold and years before modern gas central heating systems.
I kinda feel sorry for modern teens - they will never know the fun of riding around with 8-9 people in a '65 Ford Country Sedan, everyone chipping in a quarter or 50 cents to buy gas and have an older sibling pick up a sixer or two so you could ride out to the old deserted mansion in the middle of a field and hang out. If you were lucky you could get a young lovely to squeeze in beside you for the ride back. Them was the days!
Mustie1, how do you always give us good views to everything you are doing? You get shots of impossible angles so we see exactly what your doing. I have been following you for years and your second to none. Good stuff man. I feel like i am on the side of you.
My father's chore as a boy was taking the ashes out of the coal fired heater and this was in Philadelphia, but it was in the 40s. The main choices back then was purchase steam generated in a central plant or coal. My father used to tell me how when his neighbor's steam pipes would fail, the whole house would fill with steam. A lot of older homes in places like Philadelphia have a coal storage room in the basement under the front porch. There would be a window facing the street (under the porch) where the coal would be loaded into the house.
I want to say thank you for your videos. I’ve learned a lot from you and your tinkering. I was able to fix my neighbors chainsaw today in about 15 minutes from watching you with carbs and explaining how they work and what messes them up. Keep up the fantastic work!
Always enjoy watching you . I’m also on the east coast . As a matter a fact I live fairly close to where you picked up the VW Bug police car . I appreciate that you are able to fix things people throw away . I do the same thing myself . Like you I am basically self taught and over the years have Learned so much . For me the fun part is fixing . Keep up the great work Mustie!
When sharpening a chain. there are usually two cutters going the same way. That is your starting point, and when you reach those two cutters again you know that side is done. Then sharpen the opposite facing cutters, again using those same facing cutters as a starting point.
Loved the story about the old castle. They used to have Jungle Habitat by the lake and there were all sorts of stories of animals getting lose and dying in the winter. The chainsaw saying Canada and Japan on it is similar to band instruments from the 80’s and 90’s. Yamaha USA would be parts manufactured in Japan but assembled in the US. Then when that got too expensive assembly went to Canada, then Mexico, Taiwan and finally good old China. I have a 38 year old John Deere 2 stage snowblower. It was my Dads and I had to have it when he passed. I emptied the gas tank on it and it’s been in the garage for years now. Lots of stuff I’d like to get to but I don’t have the time. Sax
That saw was built for Deere by Echo (Kioritz) in Japan. Probably early 70’s since no chain brake. I had an Echo 302 very similar to this. Same exact design, just smaller.
Another brilliant video Darren, I'm a car person but the way that you come across on your videos, like we're helping you out, makes me interested in whatever you are working on. Sadly here in the UK we don't have free piles otherwise I'd be bringing home all sorts of projects. At least I've learnt from you how to revive long stood engines... Keep up the fantastic work
Sometimes you can find stuff for free in builders skips. I found a DeWalt brushless cordless drill in a skip and a Makita drill in another. The DeWalt's motor was burnt out. £50 for a new motor and it works perfectly. The Makita just needed taking apart and cleaning. Both these drills cost £150+ new. Also regularly find decent wood.
Nice recovery job! Generally speaking, at least for newer saws, on the carb, you want the "L" adjustment a tad on the rich side, so it will sit and idle for hours, and then when you pull the trigger, right to full speed. The "H" adjustment is pretty much for how fast the chain will go. So you can actually adjust the carb to run the motor to full, and all the way to destruction. So control the top speed with the H adjustment. Just want to share some info I've gleaned over the years working on them. :)
Yay, story time with Mustie! That takes care of the Sunday night movie, hee! Wow, and this actually brought back a bunch of memories too, from the time I had a week-long course at a forestry school like... 27 years ago to learn handling chainsaws and we had to do all this type of maintenance and all - I most remember the pyramid-shaped files for filing the teeth of the chain; they'd REALLY get on your case if you used a regular flat file, ha. Can't say I remember oilers being on the saws we used, but I do remember they did all have a chainbreak alright! And I remember I once got my saw stuck in a tree that was leaning to one side quite a bit and I cut the wedge for making it fall on the side the tree was leaning away from... 😬
I have that exact chainsaw.. said so on the last video when you showed this AMAZING free pile!! I love finding stuff like that!!! That romex is like seriously 150 bucks!!
I've got one kind of like that, it was my Grandfathers saw. It's so old there isn't even a muffler, just a resonator box (?) thing, definitely hearing protection required, it has the manual oiler as well. It calls for gas/oil ratio of 24/1. I found the serial # and it dates to 1965 or 67. I cleaned it up a few years ago and it's a tree eating monster. I've got a newer saw I use 90% of the time but if I have something big that requires more power I drag out the old monster, it never disappoints. Heavy, and noisy but it gets the job done in no time!
I watched that same documentary which featured the area I am from in the Pacific Northwest. My folks place still had tree stumps from 100 years prior where you could still see the notches for the spring boards the loggers stood on while they ran the crosscut saw (misery whip) back and forth across the tree. Those stumps averaged 8 foot in diameter across the butt.
Good video Darren, I've have a slightly newer saw for 25 yrs..I cleaned the carb once, and it has never let me down. It always starts I just have to remember to choke, pull it til it pops then 1/2 choke and it runs perfect. Otherwise I will flood the hell out of it!
Been watching you for about 6 yrs. The first one was you getting rusty out of the field. Great job and please don't stop. I know a video is a lot of work..
We heated exactly the same way as you described at our camp in Vermont. Our stove glowed red from the coal. We had to open up windows because it got so hot.
Really made my day to check on RU-vid and see a new Mustie1 episode posted. Always a pleasure to see Darren telling us about his latest curbside or garage sales scores. Then into his Mad Scienctist like (his humor and self depreciation joging with us like we're there) horder heaven shop. Next up, on goes an imaginary Herr Doktor Professor Mustie lecture/labhlaabhlav coat and something is gettin' taken apart, investigated, explained, what's needed, repaired, teated and most likely sold to fund more endeavors. Killer stories of his youth a huge bonus. Yuppers, tickles me pink and makes for a very enjoyable morning. Thanks Darren.
I have a John Deere weedwaker - really an Echo. I don't know how old it is. Bought it at a Yard Sale and put on a new carb and runs good. Been using it a few years now. I'm with you on the reading glasses buddy. I can't do anything it seems without them anymore. I'm half way through this one, but I'm sure you will get it running. These older machines just work with a little love. Cheers! 🍻 -Al
Yes, I can't imagine what it was like to cut a whole winters firewood by hand. I do have an old 2 man saw hanging in the barn but it is strictly ornamental!
I'm always looking for yer next video...not just entertaining but educational as well. Picked up an old wood chipper a while back and found the throttle only operated full out. From watchin you, I was able to identify the problem and fixed 'er up with the tip cut off a rtv tube and an old O-ring. Runs A1 now. Yer an inspiration.
Hi Darren, when you picked up the high/low needles from the tray to draw a picture you said “they came out like that right?” I’m pretty sure you turned them around the other way. Then again, it ran well, so I may be full of......let’s call it sawdust! Nice old saw!
I had to rewind at that point and yes he flipped them around, but he didn't show putting them back in so don't know if he caught that mistake, the high side had the longer shank on the needle valve when he took it out.
I really enjoy watching these videos. You have a wealth of information stored up there. I wish I had recall like you. I have 2 weed eaters that I need to work on. It's always carb problems. Most always. I refer to your videos a lot. Thanks for sharing.
Dad had saws like this when i was growing up, they were all mcculloch saws, had great power but they were so darned heavy you were worn out just lifting that thing up and moving around all day. New saws (i use only stihl) are so much better, same power but much lighter. great video. Thanks mustie!
