Poulan PRO 3400 - Manuals

In 1971, Charles Beaird (see inset)set Poulan on a new era of growthwith the move to new manufacturingfacilities. The new plant had117,000 square feet compared to theold plant’s 54,000 square feet. I n 1959, Louisiana industrialist, Charles T. Beaird, who had been an executive witha Shreveport steel...

Beaird-Poulan has become a multi-national company because of thequality of its products. Poulan usesonly the finest materials and manyof the parts are made or tooled atPoulan facilities of lightweight magnesium chain saws.Models 360, 400 and 450 were introducedin the summer of 1965, and signaled atu...

The people (top) at Beaird-Poulanare also a big factor in the successof the company. The Beaird-Poulanmanufacturing facilities are themost modern in the world. Poulan as its first consumer marketingdirector. Lindley recognized the casualchain saw user as a virtually untappedmarket. His organizationa...

The Poulan Super XXV Counter-Vibe made the company aninnovator in the casual usermarket I n February, 1973, James M. Conly, Jr., who had joined the Poulan brothers backin 1948, became president of the companysucceeding Charles T. Beaird. A month lat-er; Beaird, who was now chairman of thefirm, annou...

The Poulan Micro XXV (top) is thestandard of the casual user markettoday and is one of the main rea-sons for Poulan’s phenomenalgrowth in the 1970’s. Poulan is con-tinuing its innovative tradition inthe 1980’s with the introduction ofthe Model 3400 (bottom) whichoffers many of the features of a pro-...