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Stihl was founded in 1926 by Andreas Stihl, an innovator in early chainsaw production. Stihl says it is the world's best-selling brand of chainsaws and the only chainsaw manufacturer to make its own saw chains and guide bars. [4] Andreas Stihl AG is a privately held company owned by the descendants of Andreas Stihl.
A chainsaw cutting a small wooden board. A chainsaw (or chain saw [1]) is a portable handheld power saw that cuts with a set of teeth attached to a rotating chain driven along a guide bar.
She was laid down in 1937 at the Campbell Machine shipyard in Seattle, Washington [2] as a wooden hulled tuna boat and christened the Picoroto. In 1942, soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor , the US government requisitioned 52 of the 79 tuna clippers (including the Picoroto ) in the California fleet (49 by the U.S. Navy and 3 by the U.S. Army ...
The Lycoming O-290 is a dual ignition, four-cylinder, air-cooled, horizontally opposed aircraft engine.It was first run in 1939, and entered production three years later. A common variant of the type is the O-290-G, a single ignition model which was designed to drive a generator as part of a ground power unit.
The route had been previously numbered as SH 134 beginning sometime between 1926 [2] and 1928 [3] until the route was renumbered as SH 24 on March 19, 1930. [4] The SH 290 designation was dropped on March 31, 1955 when the route became SH 116. [1] [5] On December 14, 1977, the SH 116 designation was canceled, and the route became an extension ...