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Gene Davis (Ga.)
12-25-2003 19:49:12
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Re: Two Man Chain Saw in reply to Mark Dickenson, 12-24-2003 18:55:51
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From your description, it sounds like you have a Mall saw. They were bought out by Remington,yes the gun guys! The last ones were referred to as Remington-Malls. Used to work in a saw shop while they were a lot of 2 man saws, McCullochs were yellow/black, Poulans were unpainted aluminum. Malls were reddish (maroon) and think they may have had a cream colored trim, after all this was in the late 50's. they were all one cylinder uprights,except the Mercury-Disstons which were all nice polished aluminum 2 cylinder horizontal alternate firing engines, after all they were made by an outboard motor company,and the Disston co, made the saw part, some models of the Mercury even had hand clutches on them. Very smooth running,nice saw,but very expensive to buy and repair, The Malls had a mean habit of sometimes backfiring, and with a lefthand-threaded,self pulling flywheel,often the logger would spend hours looking around the woods for a flywheel that had jumped off and ran away! 2 man chain saws were definitely hard on the help, but a step up from the cross cut saw of the earlier days.
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