I Don't Like Chain Saws

Interesting machine. Looks like it has two tanks--one for gas and one for oil maybe?

 

No, they have a few of the saws you depict in your post up to Lenards Woods as well, but that is not what I am talking about.

The saws I am referring to have a weight that powers the saw by gravity pulling it down, there is no engine. The same concept was used on lighthouses to power the hammer that hit the bell to warn mariners in the fog that a lighthouse/rocks were close by. Anyone who has ever been to the Stockton Springs Lighthouse (Also known as Fort Point) knows what I am talking about. Their separate bellhouse has a bigger version of the same driving mechanism.

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Extra history lesson, while most people think of Paul Revere as a war hero, Mainer's do not. This was where the man delayed by one day in attacking the British by land and thus where America had their greatest naval defeat, something that could have been avoided by all accounts. He was later court marshaled for this lack of leadership.

 

So was the chainsaw thing mainly related to noise?
Cool old machine. Can’t say I’d enjoy using it.

 

At his behest & was cleared of wrong doing.

 

True, but so was OJ Simpson!

 

OJ requested to be tried?

 

No, but Paul Revere would have been court marshaled anyway. He was also hardly innocent, by his own admission in his escape from the Naval Debacle, tore down a mans home in Unity and used it as a raft to go down 25 mile stream, the Sabasticook River, and then the Kenebec. He was only made famous by the poem, and even then other riders of that historic night rode longer and warned more Patriots of the invasion.

I would like to defend him and say maybe he was made a scapegoat for someone else s mistakes, but it is pretty hard to defend him when he failed to attack the British at Fort Point, and that extra day allowed the British to bring in troops as well as ships that kept American Vessels from sailing out of Penobscot Bay. He was in command...he did not attack as what was agreed upon by the other military leaders.

 

Mad Max was a wood hoarder? Way cool....

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This thread has kinda veered off lol

 

I have now heard everything. I never in my life would think someone on this website would say they don't like chainsaws! haha I personally have an obsession with saws, as do many others I presume...But that is a cool piece. Haven't ever seen anyone doing it like that before! Interesting. I'll keep my Husqy's though.

 

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Guilty as charged. I don't like the chainsaw noise, I don't like it's dangers, and I don't like how temperamental they are. knock it too hard, or get some dirt in the wrong place and they need to be taken to the shop. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

And BTW, Paul Revere was an American hero. I don't care if he f'd up earlier or later, he DID make that ride and he warned people. I was a U.S. Army Sgt. in 1970-'71 and I can tell you, every single man in time of great stress makes mistakes. Sometimes bad ones.

 

He's not gonna try to burn that pine, is he? Chimney fire waiting to happen!

I was thinking of almost exactly the same thing, but instead of just mounting a whole chainsaw, have the bar and chain rigged to run off a reliable six hp four stroke.

Hardly looks like he's working at all. He didn't need to run a rocked chain or throw the saw to make his point. Hopefully it was a prop saw

 

I agree but
Your kidding about this , right?
(He's not gonna try to burn that pine, is he? Chimney fire waiting to happen!)

 

Yes he was! But nobody remembers Isreal Bissel. Revere rode to Lexington Mass. Bissel rode to P.a. to tell congress! But his name doesn't rhyme as well

 

Of course! I love me some pine. Once that pitch dries, it's stove candy.

 

It was all Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's fault. "Listen my children and you shall hear of the Midnight ride of Paul Revere...."

But it sounds better than, "Listen my children and all you old fossils, of the Midnight ride of Isreal Bissel."

 

You are indeed correct!