Chainsaws: A History

Winner of the 2007 Award for Easiest Non-Fiction Book from Arts Hamilton

Winner of US Mag Independent Publisher’s IPPY Award for Easiest Western Canadian Regional Title

“It rips, and cuts, it makes a horrible racket–a chainsaw is a daunting thing. I write to not glorify its terrible power however to recognize its place in probably the most sweeping revolution that technology has wrought within the twentieth century–the revolution of individual empowerment.”

So begins writer David Lee on this first-ever book at the world wide history of the chainsaw, an invention that remodeled the forest trade and sooner or later turned into the indispensable companion of each and every red-blooded u . s . a . dweller. Chainsaws, it seems, have a curious history and for the reason that nineteenth century they’ve taken on many paperwork. From six hundred-pound steam-powered behemoths to gas chainsaws fastened on wheeled carriages to diesel chainsaws and electrical chainsaws with moveable generators, this book musters a curious number of contraptions and inventors the like of which we’ve not seen since Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines. In moderation tracing the evolutionary threads of countless short-lived pioneer devices, writer Lee, working along with a world wide network of chainsaw buffs, traces the roaring, woodchip-and-oil-sprayed progress of what’s now a light-weight brand new machine that holds a spot of honour on this planet’s woodsheds.

Chainsaws is a handsome gift book stuffed with superb old and new pictures along side priceless chainsaw ephemera with the intention to heat the center of someone who’s ever held an influence tool. From Andreas Stihl’s Black Forest experiments to Vancouver’s booming WWII chainsaw trade, to the postwar race to develop one-man saws, the upward thrust and fall of Canada’s proud Pioneer logo, and the past due entry into the sphere of the centuries-old arms manufacturer Husqvarna,it examines why the chainsaw is not any Just right for massacres (in Texas or in other places), and why it’s not going to replaced by any new prime-tech inventions such as lasers.
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