It's like someone bolted a motorcycle engine to a Roman broadsword. Just look at this chain-saw! The cylinder is bigger than a fist and the muffler's more solid than a rifle-bore.
I could barely lift the thing. I can't imagine working with it.
Sure, I'm a pussy. Just give me an electric powered plastic and aluminum Worx, please.
I've borrowed the title of this post from @everittdmickey. He used it in the comments of my post about an outdated cell-phone and disposable technology. It made me laugh then, and I thought about it again when I came across this beast in an antique store during Saturday's explorations in Plymouth with @donnadavisart.
This thing's gotten a lot of use. I bet it would start right back up if you popped in a new spark plug and some gas. (It looks like it holds a whole gallon.) It's no piece-of-crap Poulan, that's for sure.
But nuts to that. I'm not going to be the one to pull on the cord.
It would make a great prop for a horror movie, though. Or a horror documentary.
I will say this: the men who worked with these tools must have been strong. And if they lived to old age, they must have been pretty smart too - or at least careful. Lumber-jacking really meant something in those days.
That's why I'd probably have opted for fishing. Or knitting.
Won't lie, chopped down a whole pine tree limb for limb with a reciprocating saw this summer. When it came down to the big gnarly stump, I called my buddy with a chainsaw, always handy to have one. Love the sound of them, but they are very unforgiving and live wood can have hidden characteristics which can cause unexpected perils.
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greenies like to spike trees to give those who cut them down a big SURPRISE!
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Nothing like taking a mans limb and lively hood to slow down a multi milliondollar industry.
It's always an oddity to me, the self loathing human in his wood house, at his wood table, drinking from a plastic cup.
The big surprise in wood is usually buckshot or the like, you'll still find slugs in the odd 2*4.
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A long-handled pair of loppers does wonders limbing a tree in a hurry, and you don't even need an extension cord. I've got a pair that can cut through a 3" limb without too much trouble.
But I pity my ancestors who had to cut through a winter's worth of firewood with hand-powered saws!
How much of the stump did you leave? Digging those things out is a nightmare!
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Luckily it's right beside the water mains they are replacing on my street, so hopefully they can grab it with the excavator.
That's after I got through with my cip-saw. Have a two ft stump cut flush to the ground.
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Well done not taking out the electric service!
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The main reason I topped it before stripping the lower branches.
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Something like that will often be used as the base of an informal business in SA. I have seen similar ones on the side of the road with the name and telephone number of tree cutting services.
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Knitting is good, that works it goes with the pipe
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Probably a good way to set myself on fire - but it's still safer than messing with that chain saw!
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ha ha lol
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