goofy Russian chainsaw...

[chads]

I think it was designed so they could cut several feet below the snow level without their head in the hole getting co fumes etc.

 

[StihlKicking]

Husqvarna, what goofy saws![emoji38]

 

[johnnylabguy]

Absolutely.

My grandpa and great grandpa hand logged a good portion of our family land in the mid 30's. In the late 50's my grandpa and great uncle (then into their mid 40's) harvested enough to build a house with the lumber and two garages with vertical timbers. They started off by hand but got their hands on a used chainsaw halfway through and were very relieved.

Exactly. My dad told me the story of when they finally bought their first saw back in the early fifties. Grandpa and him worked for an hour with a two man blade when grandpa said enough. They drove to the hardware store and bought a Maul gas saw that you could turn the blade sideways on too. And never looked back. What I remember of it was back in the eighties when I was a boy no one wanted to use it over our other saws because it was too heavy and slow! Lol. I wish I still I had that old saw but it's long gone except for my memory.

 

[svk]

Exactly. My dad told me the story of when they finally bought their first saw back in the early fifties. Grandpa and him worked for an hour with a two man blade when grandpa said enough. They drove to the hardware store and bought a Maul gas saw that you could turn the blade sideways on too. And never looked back. What I remember of it was back in the eighties when I was a boy no one wanted to use it over our other saws because it was too heavy and slow! Lol. I wish I still I had that old saw but it's long gone except for my memory.

I even regret selling my grandpa's C5 now and that thing was light years ahead of what they used for logging!