Big Ben

Its an Auto Culto!

Couldn't get it on my bench, but again more scrap.You can still get parts for these but think I might strip it down and sell off the parts. I think its a 1965 with 3 forward and one reverse gear, supposed to have a few attachments to either fit the front or the back. Powered by a Villiers engine.

Have had many bikes, here are a few............ The ZX12r was the most mental, totally unpredictable power delivery. The throttle was like an on off switch. The fireblade was an awesome bike, I had played about with it a bit. running new throttle bodies and filters,power com, different gearing spent far too much money on it. It would lift the front at 130mph(on the track of course) But some toe rag thought it would be better if they relieved me of it and one night it disappeared. Also had a ktm supermoto out here, which I just sold off in bits and now have an old NX650 which I'm going to turn into an adventure style off roader.

Thanks very much chaps.

No the tensioner is on the main body side, the bar doesn't have a sprocket in the end and it looks like it may have opened up a bit at the end, guessing that would pull the chain into the nose a bit too much when tensioning causing it to lock up.

Think it was a lump of ash, I cut it off an old stump out the back of the house with a husqvarna 136. Tried to cut through it with this saw and thats when I got a bit of smoke off it. But the oil on the floor got me thinking there might be something a miss somewhere.

Well this is the oil that was left on the floor. This is the chain still on, a bit loose. When I tightened it as I would do on my other saws it wouldn't move so had to slacken off a fair bit. Can't find any marks on the chain at all, as to give a clue of what size it should be. And this is the bar, on the other side it says dolmar.

That makes perfect sense to me and from the oil on the floor is likely to be the cause.

Got my onions in the other day, but then our weather is normally a bit earlier than the UK. My chillis are doing lovely in the spare room with the heating on in there. Probably wait until April now to get seeds in the ground, might start some off in seed trays indoors. If I can find some seed trays.

Thanks, I think I might try a new bar and chain. The old bar does look a bit old and looks to have had a grinder run over it on the sides to dress it up a bit.

Ah some people in France. That was some good reading about how to set up. I myself registered as an AE but not for tree work. I may have to change regiemes and become a comercent rather than an artisan. Most of the stuff I do is gardening now with the usual grass cutting,hedge trimming and clearing up which means runs to the dechetterie as I don't have a chipper. And cutting up firewood for the older ex pats, thats always a good one.

Yes pretty sharp!

Well came across this forum and have had a good read of alot of topics regarding the cutting down of trees and such like. I live in the south west of France and although not a newcomer to chain saws I don't possess any of the qualifications everyone is talking about. Mainly I do gardening work out here, the usual hedge trimming, grass cutting and some odd tree felling. Nothing too serious and nothing the involves climbing. Back in the UK I was a mechanic which has paid off quite well out here, mending any variety of things with an engine. The plus/downside to this is that people often say sod it I'll buy a new one you can keep that. So my workshop is starting to fill up with what some would call junk. I had a friends chainsaw for repair, it only needed fuel lines changing so I was just waiting for him to return from the UK and it turns out he bought a smaller saw. He said keep my old one! So I now have a Sachs Dolmar 112 with an 18inch bar, pulled the fuel line of an old 1955 lambretta I've got sat here for restoration and did a quick bodge. The saw fired up on its third pull. Spent the afternoon cutting up some large hazelnut without a problem, so decided to try a big log I had in the back workshop, I think it was Ash. It cut through that not as easily as I would have expected and I started getting a bit of smoke from the chain, or at least it looked like thats where it was coming from. There was plenty of oil in it, I took it apart and it seemed to be pumping it out the hole. But what I did notice was that the chain seemed loose in the bar, as in sideways loose. Wouldn't be surprised it its the wrong chain for the bar, but would this cause the oil to not run round the bar as it should and why would it only show up when I'm cutting fairly big lumps. Just been out to the workshop and where I sat it there is now a pool of chain oil. None of my other saws leak oil when not in use or could it be that it built up somewhere and ran out. Any advice gratefully received.

Hello, another new member here, Looks like a good site for all kinds of information. I think I shall be having a very good browse when I have a bit more time. I live out in the South west of France, my main wood cutting duties are pretty much for firewood. My dad has about 30acres of woodland which we are working on. My tools are pretty much toys to what the pros use, but I'll get there eventually.