Partner Chainsaw P70 Manual
SawTroll said: “ I certainly am no expert, but I have picked up some info here and there. Based on the info I have, I think the story is about like this; Partner started making saws in about 1955, and as far as I know they were independent until 1979. They made mostly Pro saws in that period, but some Semi-Pro versions were made.
Partner P70 Chainsaw Manual
About the same was the case with Jonsereds, from 1954 until 1979, and Husqvarna from 1959, until 1978 (or a bit earlier). E-lux first took over H, then J and P, and they also started taking over several less reputed chainsaw manufacturers like (but not restricted to) Pioneer (about 1980?), McCulloch Europe, and Poulan (1987) - and entering the 'Homeowner' market. Soon products from the less reputed manufacturers started appearing in the model line-ups of the Swedish trio. The Emab pruducts (mostly 34/35 cc homeovner saws) made at Huron Park, Canada and sold under a lot of different trademarks, among them Partner, Husky, Jred, Skil, Frontier, Poulan, Jo-Bu, Norlett, Campbell Housefield and were also a part of this, but that project started a bit earlier in the 1970s to my knowledge. About Partner, the first major thing to happen was that they were merged with Pioneer in North America (but not in Europe). The Pioneer/Partner labelled saw were really either pure Pioneer or pure Partner designs anyway, and easy to distinguish from each other even though they had the same label.
Partner Chainsaw P70 Manuale
In Europe, the Partner designed saws were still sold as Partner, no mention of Pioneer, and no models of Pioneer origin. When E-lux took over Poulan, they created the Poulan Pro trademark on the remnants of Pioneer/Partner. The connection to Partner/Europe was still there, and many models were the same initially (remember, E-lux ruled). Regular Poulans also entered the Partner line, and a few even entered the H and J line-ups. After Poulan Pro was established, I don't think many saws were sold in North America as Partner. In Europe they carried on, but most of the Pro/Semi-Pro models disappeared during the late 1980s.
The, 660 and 710 carried on a bit longer (the 710 until about 2000), and variants of those were also sold as Poulan Pro 415/425, 445, 475 and 505 - and the Jred 2077, 2083 and 2083 II. I suspect most of these saws were made at the Jonsered factory (the -s at the end disappeared in about 1985), but I am not 100% positive of this. Edit, They were all made at the Husky factory. Edit, removed something that likely wasn't 100% true.
Today, all Partner saws are 'homeowner' types of different quality. The cheapest ones are made by Poulan, and the better ones by Poulan Pro and at the old Italian McCulloch factory. I think that the Italian made saws are still more or less related to the P500 from the 1980s. Of course there are omissions in this story, and there may even be mistakes.:hmm3grin2orange::hmm3grin2orange::greenchainsaw: (cool smilies)A couple of years ago, the. brands of E-lux was formed into The Husqvarna. Group, and the group is no longer a part of E-lux.