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McCulloch Motors Corporation is an American manufacturer of chainsaws and other outdoor power tools. The company was founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1943 by Robert Paxton McCulloch as a manufacturer of small two-stroke gasoline engines and introduced its first chainsaw in 1948, the Model 5-49. McCulloch and its brand are owned by Husqvarna.
Robert Paxton McCulloch was born May 11, 1911, in Missouri to Richard McCulloch and Mary Grace Beggs. [1] His grandfather, John I. Beggs, made his fortune by implementing Thomas Edison's electrical powerplants in cities around the world, manufacturing and selling electric trolley cars, and founding Milwaukee's public utility system.
The Paxton Phoenix was a rear-engine coupé prototype developed in 1953 by Robert P. McCulloch's Paxton Automotive of Los Angeles, California, a division of his chainsaw business. The car was styled by Brooks Stevens and featured a cable driven mechanical hardtop that retracted and covered the trunk.
Chainsaws with specially designed bar-and-chain combinations have been developed as tools for use in chainsaw art and chainsaw mills. Specialized chainsaws are used for cutting concrete during construction developments. Chainsaws are sometimes used for cutting ice; for example, ice sculpture and winter swimming in Finland. [citation needed]
McCulloch 6 cylinder Model 6318 (O-150-2) 1955–1972 The McCulloch O-100-1 is a four-cylinder, air cooled four piston drone engine developed by the McCulloch Aircraft Corporation (later to become the McCulloch Motors Corp.) which was founded 1943 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and later moved to Los Angeles, California.
The Husqvarna Group (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈhʉ̂ːsˌkvɑːɳa ˈɡruːp]) is a Swedish manufacturer of outdoor power products including robotic lawn mowers, chainsaws, trimmers, brushcutters, cultivators, and garden tractors.
An oral history of the entire Saw franchise. Rosie Fletcher. September 30, 2024 at 4:17 AM. To celebrate Digital Spy's 25th anniversary, we're revisiting some classic articles from the archive ...
Two-man saw in Oregon. A two-man saw (known colloquially as a "misery whip" [1]) is a saw designed for use by two sawyers. While some modern chainsaws are so large that they require two persons to control, two-man crosscut saws were primarily important when human power was used. [2]