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Can anyone tell me some info on this beast. I picked it up today. Its a homelite it has some writin on the side cover which i put a pic up of :-)

In its youth, that decal said Homelite XL Automatic. If you find the model identification plate (the XL Automatic was made for 20 years with variations along the way) you can get an operator's manual here:
http://www.homelite.com/service_support/parts_locator

Do u know where i would find the plate?

Try this page:
http://www.ehow.com/how_7489336_do-identify-homelite-chainsaw.html

Note that over the years your model saw started out blue, changed to red in the late 1960s, then eventually went orange.

I found a plate near the on off switch n the numbers stamped are 3055512 can anyone tell anything by them?

That seems to be the serial number. There should be a model number on that same plate. Homelite model numbers usually begin with UT, though they may not have way back when yours was made.

I cant find any other number on that plate it juat says made in usa blah blah. But when i clean it up i might come across another number lol

See if you can find a UT number anywhere on the saw, as well as looking for another number on the serial number plate.

This is that plate. Its the only thing with numbers i can find. I want to find out the year of this machine etc. Is there any chance it has no model number?

I think you need to find out what the "suffix" is, since they refer to it on the plate. I can't get any response from the Homelite model site with XL Automatic plus the serial number. They really want a UT number, but may respond to something else if it's complete.

Could it be UT With those numbers after it?

I tried that in desperation, but it didn't work. Is there a comma after "Model" on that plate? That would make it model, suffix, and serial number. We have serial number, and maybe model (XL Automatic) but we don't have a suffix. However I think there are model numbers for them - did you notice gmax called his a Homelite XL 12?

Yea from the info i have found. The homelite XL 12 is the same as mine. But mines a upgraded model ( Automatic) so its got the auto oiler an few things like that.

The Homelite site only lists models with UT and ZR numbers. Try it yourself:
http://manuals.homelite.com/documents/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&category_id=102&query=