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Chainsaw engines are traditionally either a two-stroke single-cylinder gasoline (petrol) internal combustion engine (usually with a cylinder volume of 30 to 120 cm 3) or an electric motor driven by a battery or electric power cord. In a petrol chainsaw, fuel is generally supplied to the engine by a carburetor at the intake.
A stereotype of comedic chainsaw portrayal is a chainsaw-wielding lunatic in a hockey mask (seen for example in the Simpsons episode "Cape Feare"). Horror cinema's archetypal hockey-mask killer Jason Voorhees has never actually been portrayed wielding a chainsaw in a film, though chainsaws have been used against him in some films.
The first Chainsaw Carving World Championships was held in 1987 and won by then 24-year-old Barre Pinske. The 1980s also saw the development of the Cascade Chainsaw Sculptors Guild and their newsletter, The Cutting Edge , mailed out to many members throughout the Pacific Northwest and the rest of the United States.
Learn how to use a chainsaw properly so you can make easier and safer work of using this handy power tool.
The following year, Stihl created the first ever chainsaw that could be operated by only one person. [7] The company continued to grow and in 1931 it became the first European company to export chainsaws to the United States and the Soviet Union. [8] Stihl has been the biggest chainsaw manufacturing company in the world since 1971. [2]
Joseph Buford Cox (1905 – August 10, 2002), [1] was an American inventor and businessman. He invented what is now known as the chipper type chain for chain saws.He based his design on the C-shaped jaws of the larva of the timberman beetle. [2]
Below, find every Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie ranked, from Hooper's original through the increasingly complicated canon of sequels, prequels, spinoffs, and remakes. 9. Leatherface (2017)
The "bow guide" now allowed the chainsaw to be utilized by a single operator and quickly revolutionized the booming, post-war wood cutting industry. In 1946 Poulan Chain Saws was established in Shreveport, Louisiana where it produced chainsaws utilizing existing engines purchased from other manufacturers.