 | Dear Mike,
Not quite sure where to start but to make a long story short, my name is Mickey Niven & I live in Sherwood Park, AB next door to Edmonton. Along with woodworking and cabinet making, I've always been a fix-it guy and having retired just less than a year now, I have even more time to keep the tools well oiled. Last summer, I happened to innocently pick up a old Homelite ZIP chainsaw not because I wanted to collect saws but more just to tinker with it and see if it could be made to run again. By this time however, I already had a couple of little Homelites and an old Remington that my Brother gave me. Not that I needed them because I had a Jonsered 455 to cut the firewood I needed for the cabin at the lake. Well that started the ball rolling because my cyber surfing for parts for the ZIP lead me to the forum in Sweden and your site looking for information, parts and a common interest. I think I'm at about 13 saws now!! Someone said, more than two saws and you are a "Collector". Recently, I acquired a Frontier Mark I Automatic made by Quadra MFG in Trail and this interested me because I had never imagined that there were very many chainsaw manufacturers in Canada let alone Trail, BC. My efforts to find out more about this saw, its MFR and an IPL leads me somewhat to a dead end. I'd like to learn more and contribute to the chainsaw history of Canada particularily in the West where there isn't as much history as someparts of North America and as such, could I become a member of CSCC. |