Homelite XL12 - Best Firewood Chainsaw Ever? (Let's find out)🤔
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Published 2023-09-01
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i bought a "Big Red" Super XL 10 or so years ago for $10. It looked barely used. It needed a fuel line and one side of the chain was trashed by a rock. It's new enough to have a bar code on the sticker. It runs great.
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Great video Dan! My favorite saw of all time the XL-12. I think that bar would look great on either of the red XLs, both look to be in great shape. If I was trapped on a Desert Island off the coast of Alaska, I'd want a good old XL-12 and a couple of chains!
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Music to my ears those are my favorite saws 😊
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Used to have a firewood business in the 60s. I had an XL 12 and cut hundreds of cords with it. It was a great saw and easy to maintain. It would cut up to 3 feet in diameter longs by double cutting with a 20 inch bar.
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McCuloch super pro 125 is still to this day the ultimate badass power saw. Love my super xl too. Its a great saw. It still gets it.
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I had a blue XL12 with the hex fuel cap and aircleaner knob in the late 60's. We were harvesting Radiata pine for posts, strainers and stays in govt plantations around Southland in the South Island of New Zealand. Reliable machine. Too many memories.. God Bless.
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Best saw I ever owned, bought it at Aniwa Hardware in Aniwa WI. for $130 back in 1979. My dad bought a Super XL auto 1 week later after using my XL 12 for about an hour. I now have his saw, it’s show room new, maybe 3 months wear on it. He paid $150 for it.
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That saw you said your dad had got for you has That bright red paint like my XL 76 Terry Industrys has! Are you sure that is not a Terry saw? Damn! Between you and I we might just have half of all the XL12 and Super XL saws on the west coast! 😳
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May be my favorite -- I love to cut with my xl 12 and a bow on it. Very reliable--keep the great videos coming..
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glad to see your good happy and healthy. one love.
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My first saw was one of the old blue homlites realy good saw I went to our local southern states they sold them and parts I went there got new rope pully and a pull rope done and spring mine was a awsome saw I got it back in 1987
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Yep I have several of different versions of the XL12's one is a Circle saw. I had seen videos of them but never laid eyes on one. Then one was at a estate auction So I bought it. Today a old friend I hadnt talked to in decades came by. I got it down and it fired right up. Them I had to fire up a XL 12. He loved hearing the crackle of the loud stack exhaust and seeing the blue smoke from the 1/2 pint oil to the gallon fuel mixture. Reminded him of back in the day. And I enjoyed it immensly also.
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Im getting into HomeLite and you're a wealth of info. I have 2 Super XLs with very little use, both a blue one and a red one. Tomorrow, im trading a backpack blower i don't use for a nice HomeLite C72 (80cc). Excited! You probably know, but Sugar Creek Supply sells the decals for the bars and entire decal kits for the saws. They have all the old saws not just HomeLite. Im in Atlanta Metro area and there are so many old saws available on Facebook. Keep em coming man! Good stuff
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Cool ol' saws!!🤙🤙😎 Have a couple blue ones myself💪
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Nice XL12 collection!! I say put that bar on the late model red saw.
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They sure are sweet little saws. Yea here I can't find any but for 150 bucks I can have a runner 100 for saw then 50 shipping. I'll do it one day for sure!
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I have 2 Super XL's. One early 70s blue one and a late model red one(late 80s) in almost mint condition. The red one starts on 1-2 pulls every time after sitting for weeks on end. Great saws
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Port Chester is only 25 miles from me so there’s tons of these saws around these parts. Cheap too! My fave is the Super XL. Light and powerful!
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Iam 65 and that Blue Super xl 12 was the first saw my Dad bought around 68 , i wish i had kept it , unfortunately my mom let a junk man clean up some stuff , the saw i think had messed up , and He had bought a Stuhl 028 wb mid 80s , that i still have , i was the head firewood getter for many years , for mom & pop , then , later for myself& my family . And still hold that title !! haha , Enjoyed the Video Dan , as always !! Thanks !! Happy New Year to Ya Sir !!
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I was so Happy when I bought the XL-12 and it had my name on the Serial plate Terry😊
