Sometimes you say Thank you and smile, that's what I did yesterday... My Daughter has cut wood with me on numerous occasions, maybe more I can count. She knows I have many Stihl saws I own and an odd one here and there. She was passing a garage/yard sale and stopped this elderly folks selling out everything in their garage and moving to Florida come fall. She saw the box with a saw bar sticking out. She asked the fella what was it and how much? She looked at it, the man said it ran fine but it's old and he said, "How about 20 bucks"? Long story short, she came home and gifted me this Poulan... I smiled and said Thank you! Haven't even started it yet, I will later... Way later.... Anyone of you Poulan folks know how old it may be?
Ha! I have a whole fleet of those things! That's a 4218 (42cc/18" bar) and then the larger 5020 was pretty popular too...I've cut a mountain of wood with those 2 models, but once I got the first Stihl, I just didn't use the Poolans much after that...didn't have much $ in them though either...paid $20 for a number of them, not more than $50 for any. That is probably 20 years old...not a completely terrible consumer grade plastic clam shell saw...IME/O
I just found a sticker on the back cover near the choke knob that says; " conforms to the current 2014 California EPA standards", So I'm assuming it's in that time frame area. I'll bring it to my gun club, we always have small cut jobs that would be perfect for it.
You'll get your (your daughter's) $20 worth of giggles out of that in no time. I had that exact saw for a couple years, gifted to me from my next door neighbor. No complaints. I re-gifted the one I had to a coworker that needed a saw at his house. It's a great little storm cleanup saw, perfect for the job you've already assigned to it.
Unless they're these kinds of Poulans, I'm not so sure I'd wish that kind of hoarding fetish on our friend Dave These were the real deal back in the day. Picture credit courtesy of member "mag craft" (I can't get it to tag him with the @ symbol, and he hasn't been active in quite some time)
Last Poulan saw I bought was back around 1996. Not even sure what ever happened to it. Made me think back to the first chainsaw I ever used - a McCulloch back in the mid 70's.
I too have abused the heck out of a few poulans, and not the classic ones. They honestly did just fine and as usual it comes down to having a nice sharp chain. Cut lots and lots of firewood and the saw itself didn't fail. I ran one over with a bulldozer, broke another handle somehow. I moved up to Stihls because saws are fun but the poulan always did its job. Then dolmar, then husky clone, all for fun.
I ended up with over 30 of those people would abandoned them instead of paying to have them fixed fuel line mostly. Whenever anyone stopped at the shop i'd throw some in their trucks
It’s pronounced Pole-An… Please stop watching Yankee’s pronouncing a Louisiana saw name incorrectly. Poulan Pro is the result of EM purchasing Partner and Pioneer, the consumer saws were Yellow Poulan’s, the pro saws were straight up Yellow Partner’s, Pioneer’s or JRed’s…
I even stumbled onto an old pole an commercial on the YouTube where they specifically tell what the pronunciation lol. That woman "mechanic" on the YouTube calls them poolan.
Must be something in the air in Yankeeland recently because dangit I’m picking up this Pole-An tomorrow for $20, with a carrying case to boot. I’m only vaguely familiar with these saws, but I saw that this one is older, not a modern plastic case model so it’s got to be worth at least $20. If I had to guess, it looks like a micro XXV to me…
