
This still won't answer your neighbor's question about how many WIZ Super 66's Homelite made. With this information, you can now de-cipher the serial number of your new old beastly beauty and find that she was made at assembly line number 3, on the 239th calendar day of the year in 1979, and she was the 16th unit made that day. Peery Gibson Service Manager Forestry Products The 8-digit number reads the same as the 9-digit number except the assembly line designation was not used. Prior to the 9-digit serial number now being used, an 8-digit number was used. "1238" - This was the 1,238th unit built that day. "152" - The next 3 numbers specify the calendar day of the year (day 152). Before a letter was used to specify the year, a number was used. "G" - This letter specifies the year of final assembly. This could also be represented by a letter.

"4" - This number specifies the assembly line the unit was built on.

The following information should answer most of your questions regarding serial numbers and how to read them. Hold on, there Bunky!! Before you go kicking yourself for blowing all your beer money for the next four months on a danged old chainsaw which every homeowner in North America, half of Europe and all of New Zealand has on a shelf in the garage, you need to understand the following: only Three Hundred Ninety Two Million Three Hundred Ninety Thousand and Sixteen. He says: "Wow!! I've never seen a chainsaw like that!! How many of 'em did they make?" You look at the tag on the saw and you see:Īnd you turn to your neighbor and say: "Oh.


Your neighbor comes over and gawks at your new old saw. just worn a little around the edges and on the handle. big old antiquey-looking chainsaw with a honkin' 3-foot bar and a chain with teeth on it which sure don't look like the little low-profile safety-chain teeth on Aunt Elma's little box-store saw. You got yourself a nice new old Homelite WIZ.
