Chainsaws.

Azalea · 13-12-2015 02:24PM

Witchie wrote: »

My uncle cut his thumb off with one but luckily it was just hanging on by a vein and my granny bandaged him with ice and got him to hospital and apart from a scar it's perfectly fine.

Dangerous feckin things.

Cousin? The exact same thing to a tee happened to me dad. My poor gran seemed more traumatised than my poor dad.

MadsL · 13-12-2015 02:35PM

I have a cheap one. I have on many an occassion thrown it around the yard in frustration as the fecker refuses to start. I hate pull-start small petrol engine thingies, between the chainsaw and the leafblower they drive me demented.

(Yeah, yeah, fresh petrol, drain before storing...etc...)

ectoraige · 13-12-2015 02:38PM

Jayop wrote: »

My brother cut off the thumb twice and the father in law once. Both still have ten digits.

Do they still have their own ones or did they do swapsies?

fred funk }{ · 13-12-2015 02:42PM

Ruu wrote: »

Got one in Aldi when I went in for a can of milk.

A can of milk?

Sam Kade · 13-12-2015 02:51PM

Aldi chainsaws are a hit and miss you could get a one that will last long enough to get the value out of it or you could get one that won't last pissing time. Either way if they stop working throw them in the skip. Don't go throwing money away trying to repair then.

Kat1170 · 13-12-2015 02:52PM

Have three, Stihl 024 and two Husky's a 365 and a 550xp. Dangerous things without the correct training and PPE.

fred funk }{ wrote: »

A can of milk?

coconut ??

josip · 13-12-2015 03:13PM

Got a surprise years ago when driving to Stockholm and I saw a sign for Husqvarna.
Never realised they could be named after a place :eek:

Sir Osis of Liver. · 13-12-2015 03:20PM

Azalea wrote: »

Cousin? The exact same thing to a tee happened to me dad. My poor gran seemed more traumatised than my poor dad.

Is he out of the woods yet?

MadsL · 13-12-2015 04:46PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZa26_esLBE

Witchie · 13-12-2015 08:02PM

Azalea wrote: »

Cousin? The exact same thing to a tee happened to me dad. My poor gran seemed more traumatised than my poor dad.

Nope...this is my only uncle that doesn't have kids! Unless he just didn't tell us about you and sure if you were my child I wouldn't admit it either.

SafeSurfer · 13-12-2015 08:05PM

I have been around chainsaws all my life. My dad had a sawmill. Used to help him cut firewood as a kid. I'd hold lengths of timber on a "horse" for cutting into foot lengths. He was fantastic with a saw. Could fell a tree, de branch, and block it in minutes flat. He was meticulous with sharpening the chains with files. I still use chainsaws regularly. Don't know if I would be confident enough to let my 7 year old have his hand a foot away from the chain though. I suppose it was acceptable in the 80s. I'm still happy as Larry working with my saw.

Sh1tbag OToole · 13-12-2015 08:19PM

CelticRambler wrote: »

Feck. :mad:

Now you've got me thinking I should spend my afternoon carving up the rest of a knotty trunk that's lying on my boundary instead of taking my new camera for a walk.

Should never have logged on to Boards.ie instead of going to Mass ...

Hope ya didn't hit any stones

CelticRambler · 13-12-2015 09:09PM

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

Hope ya didn't hit any stones

Thanks for worrying about it, but in the end I decided it was too warm a day for chainsawing, so the camera won.

SafeSurfer wrote: »

Don't know if I would be confident enough to let my 7 year old have his hand a foot away from the chain though. I suppose it was acceptable in the 80s.

I'm not sure, either, if I'd let a 7-year-old help like that, but a 10-year-old, yep! I had my two eldest helping me when they were about that age. SonNo.1 was mostly employed as a mule dragging 5-metre trimmed branches off to the side, while DtrNo.1 would be flitting about in the tree pulling the bitty stuff to one side as I trimmed it. It was amazing the way she could "read" the tree and know exactly where I'd be cutting next. :cool:

Hammer89 · 13-12-2015 09:37PM

It was my weapon of choice in Vice City, but in real life I've never used one.

Rock fan · 13-12-2015 10:14PM

you can work with one all your life but you'll never make friends with one !
an awful lot of people have one and haven't a clue how to use one, revving and bolloxing making a load of noise and creating a mess. two bits of advice 1. sharp chain is essential 2. when the chain is sharp let the saw do the work ( maybe not so far as to let the cahin saw do the washing or ironing but you get the message )

Sam Kade · 13-12-2015 10:22PM

Rock fan wrote: »

you can work with one all your life but you'll never make friends with one !
an awful lot of people have one and haven't a clue how to use one, revving and bolloxing making a load of noise and creating a mess. two bits of advice 1. sharp chain is essential 2. when the chain is sharp let the saw do the work ( maybe not so far as to let the cahin saw do the washing or ironing but you get the message )

I see you know your chainsaws

I started using chainsaws at 17 51 now

Rock fan · 13-12-2015 10:32PM

Sam Kade wrote: »

I see you know your chainsaws I started using chainsaws at 17 51 now

I presume that was aged 17 and now your aged 51 because if you only started using a chain saw 17.51 it would only have been a couple of hours ago !1:rolleyes: haha still have all your own digits ?

the evasion_kid · 13-12-2015 10:32PM

Rock fan wrote: »

you can work with one all your life but you'll never make friends with one !
an awful lot of people have one and haven't a clue how to use one, revving and bolloxing making a load of noise and creating a mess. two bits of advice 1. sharp chain is essential 2. when the chain is sharp let the saw do the work ( maybe not so far as to let the cahin saw do the washing or ironing but you get the message )

always worth checking for nails or bits of barb wire that are half grown into the tree.

Corpus Twisty · 13-12-2015 10:37PM

They can bite. I worked cutting timber for years, and saw ('scuse the pun) some right horrors where lads slipped/fell/kicked back etc etc) and got bitten. Into the jugular ftw in the "horrors" competition. Even after years of using them, I still regard them as handling a crocodile - mostly grand but occasionally horrific. Jonsered Turbos are also the best..regardless of what anyone else thinks. Nice and light, but plenty of bite.

Rock fan · 13-12-2015 10:38PM

Feckin hate that especially when cutting up pallets for the stove. flying through the pallet when you get that rotten metallic sound when you hit the nail or screw. cringe worthy sound altought even with out hitting metal nothing blunts the chain as quick as cutting pallets shaggin yokes must be made of titanium !

BreadnBuddha · 13-12-2015 10:51PM

I like fixing up old chainsaws and there's little to beat the satisfaction of a good day out cutting and splitting firewood, apart from the beer and a soak in the bath afterwards.

Dangerous machine to be using without some proper training and the right gear. Think about how all those staggered chisel teeth cut. They chip pieces of wood out of the tree, moving at over 20meters per second. Make contact with flesh and they don't cut. They tear and pull pieces out of you. A terrible way to injure yourself for lack of experience and technique.

A decent bush saw is a lot better for the occasional tidy up job if you're not 100% up to running a saw and will get the job done all the same.

The Backwards Man · 13-12-2015 10:58PM

I have an oul crosscut saw but I've nobody to pull the other end of it.

Rarely use the chainsaw at all, have a (homemade) table saw for the kindling

CelticRambler · 13-12-2015 11:10PM

My house came with a auld crosscut saw! Great thing for getting through the last few centimetres of a trunk that's a few centimetres too wide for the chainsaw. As long as you've got someone on the other end.

I've a 600mm circular saw for cutting branches down to size for the fire. Got it cheap as an ex-rental and 50€ to sharpen the blade. I love that almost as much as the chainsaw!

I could never bring myself to burn a pallet though - way too useful in their native state! :cool:

Rock fan · 13-12-2015 11:15PM

CelticRambler wrote: »

My house came with a auld crosscut saw! Great thing for getting through the last few centimetres of a trunk that's a few centimetres too wide for the chainsaw. As long as you've got someone on the other end.

I've a 600mm circular saw for cutting branches down to size for the fire. Got it cheap as an ex-rental and 50€ to sharpen the blade. I love that almost as much as the chainsaw!

I could never bring myself to burn a pallet though - way too useful in their native state! :cool:

useful yes everything from propping up stuff in the workshop to fencing ! and every thing in between but those blue euro pallets what the f**k could you do with one of those ugly bastards only burn it

CelticRambler · 13-12-2015 11:17PM

OOOOoooohhhhhhh. You bad boy!

I gave mine away!

the evasion_kid · 13-12-2015 11:20PM

Rock fan wrote: »

useful yes everything from propping up stuff in the workshop to fencing ! and every thing in between but those blue euro pallets what the f**k could you do with one of those ugly bastards only burn it

dont let chep catch you with the blue pallets,its considered theft and youre looking at a fine.

Roger_007 · 13-12-2015 11:22PM

A man, who was out on the wood with his chainsaw, called his wife in a panic and said "I've just sawn off one of my fingers". "Was it the whole finger", she asked. "No" he replied after a pause, "it's the one beside it".

jimgoose · 13-12-2015 11:31PM

A chainsaw is a lot of ordnance for most people. I have some experience of them, but don't own one these days as I have no use for it. I manage with electric circular and jig saws, a bushman and a couple of regular handsaws.

stimpson · 13-12-2015 11:33PM

I only use mine for drawing confessions out of people.

Rock fan · 13-12-2015 11:33PM

the evasion_kid wrote: »

dont let chep catch you with the blue pallets,its considered theft and youre looking at a fine.

:eek:the ugly f**kers with the blocks made from compressed saw dust ? who or what is chep

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