Don't Clean Your Chainsaw In The House

[West Texas]

VASSALBORO -- A Vassalboro man who allegedly poured gasoline around the house and onto two people late Sunday morning, starting a fire that burned the family home, apparently got angry when he was told he should not clean his chain saw in the house, police said Monday.

Kenneth Knox, 48, is being held at Kennebec County Jail in Augusta on $250,000 cash bail. Knox will be arraigned in Waterville District Court today on charges of attempted murder, arson, assault and refusing to submit to arrest.

Sheriff Everett B. Flannery Jr. said Knox's brother-in-law, Timothy Barrett, 57, told Knox to clean the chain saw outside the home on 117 Main St.

Flannery said Knox pulled a coaxial cable out of the wall and began whipping Barrett with it and chasing him around while carrying an ax, before he threw gasoline on the wood stove.

 

[woodsrider]

Wow...sounds like Mr. Knox missed his weekly anger management session!

I'll have to remember this next time I'm inclined to clean out the clutch spooge on the dinette table. I would hate for my wife to become afflicted with the Knox Syndrome....

 

[skwerl]

Yup, that was Ken (kf tree). I chastised him for it in another thread...
http://www.arboristsite.com/showthread.php?p=362503#post362503

 

[fullbore]

:censored: I guess I'm lucky, I usually get metal filings all over the kitchen floor.

 

[bvaught]

I cant believe I am reading this post. On christmas eve I gave my dad a new chainsaw and he gave me his older 034 as a project saw. I immediately took the 034 to my father in law's house (where I was staying with my wife, we were visiting for christmas) and began to take the saw apart in the living room. He b!tched and I got pissed off and left. Not quite as serious as the story above but quite a coincidence.

 

[BlueRidgeMark]

II immediately took the 034 to my father in law's house (where I was staying with my wife, we were visiting for christmas) and began to take the saw apart in the living room.

You aren't allowed to do that unless your father-in-law is also your uncle, and he has a minimum of 3 hound dogs under the porch.



It helps if you are from West Virginia.

 

[b1rdman]

HA! My wife goes crazy when take saws apart in the living room...lesson learned. I won't do that anymore.

 

[16:1mix]

HA! My wife goes crazy when take saws apart in the living room...lesson learned. I won't do that anymore.

Ah,

One of the advantages of being single. I have a cylinder head for a antique John Deere tractor on my kitchen counter top.....and nobody b!tches about it!

 

[smokechase II]

You might be a red neck if you not only clean your saw in the house, but ....
Where was that guy who complained when the stove needed wood?

 

[Marco]

really shouldn't be an issue since the females think it's OK to unload all their worthless crap in the workshop

 

[xander9727]

True dat!!!

 

[4pwr]

Marco,you are so right. My small hunting/fishing/reloading room is constanly filled with stuff my wife thinks is too good to throw away but not good enought to put in her space. Always love my wife when I reach for a box of primers and I have to move a couple of things she won`t throw away. The things I put up with being married to the best cook in the state.

 

[Max]

Wow!
I just showed my wife this thread and she now agrees that cleaning my
muzzleloader in the bath tub is not so bad!!!

 

[bvaught]

You aren't allowed to do that unless your father-in-law is also your uncle, and he has a minimum of 3 hound dogs under the porch.



It helps if you are from West Virginia.

The father in law has at least 30 coonhounds ( he went coonhunting 3 times last year), and a variety of other farm animals. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 6 cars in various states of disrepair. He is definately a redneck. His shop is so conjested and dirty I wouldnt consider taking apart a saw in that environment, not to mention its not heated. I wasnt hurting anything and had protected the carpet with newspaper and rags. He is an obcessive compulsive as$hole and seeks to control everyone around him. But, its his house so its his right to be an a$$hole if he likes.

I was pissed off enough to throw all the saw fuel on the fire....but just fussed at my wife for gaining weight instead...Ha... boy was she pissed. I figure its her fault anyway for having such an a-hole for a dad.

 

[smokechase II]

bvaught:
Strive for an all male jury that wears Stihl, Husky or Cat ball caps and would each like their own spittoon.
By the way, how was the gas mixed; 50:1 or _____?

 

[bvaught]

bvaught:
Strive for an all male jury that wears Stihl, Husky or Cat ball caps and would each like their own spittoon.
By the way, how was the gas mixed; 50:1 or _____?

Im glad someone took my comment with a grain of salt. I mix my gas 32:1, but the saw had stale gas that my dad had mixed, and surprisingly enough he mixes 25:1. He has always liked 2 stroke mixes a little rich, but is otherwise mechanically inept.