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Andreas Stihl designed and hand built his first chainsaw in 1926. [5] The saw was electrically powered, and weighed about 48 kg (106 lb). [6] Stihl grew slowly initially, as the chainsaws came to the market about the same time as the Great Depression; with manpower cheap, and old two-man saws proven, there was no need for power saws.
This first version of the Oldsmobile straight-8 was 240.4 cu in (3.9 L). It was a conventional side-valve engine which started off life in 1932 with 87 bhp at 3350 rpm. . This initial variant ran for 5 years, from its introduction in 1932 until the larger 257 was introduced in
Andreas Stihl (10 November 1896 – 14 January 1973) was a Swiss-born German engineer and important inventor in the area of chainsaws, and the founder of Andreas Stihl AG & Company KG. [1] He is often hailed as the "Father of the chainsaw".
The first electric chainsaw was invented by Stihl in 1926. [21] Corded chainsaws became available for sale to the public from the 1960s onwards, [ 22 ] but these were never as successful commercially as the older gas-powered type due to limited range, dependency upon the presence of an electrical socket , plus the health and safety risk of the ...
The 7mm-08 with 139-140 grain loads does well against some 150-grain .308 Win. loads, providing good energy levels. One example is the Remington 7mm-08 140 PSP (1490 fpe at 300 yards) compared with the Remington 308 150 grain PSP (1344 fpe at 300 yards). [14] The 7mm-08 invites a ballistic comparison with the veteran, highly esteemed 7×57mm ...
Five Class 08s were exported to Liberia, numbers 3047, 3092, 3094, 3098 and 3100. [9] All five locos remain in Liberia and have been considerably robbed of parts in the intervening years. [10] In 2007, 08 738 and 08 939 were equipped for multiple operation at Toton TMD and repainted in Euro Cargo Rail livery before being sent to France in April ...
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Unlike most other car makers at the time, Buick had been using a valve-in-head/OHV overhead valve reverse-flow cylinder head design or I-head since their inception and continued this practice in their straight-eight designs.