Need a chainsaw?

Replace the fasteners with some thumbscrews, and it's an infomercial best-seller. If only it also made julienne fries...

Where are you guys coming up with this "eih" word, anyway? I've seen several of you use it recently. Here's the old standard spelling, and it's more frugal, only 2 letters!

That's birch, a fairly hard hardwood. The little guy cuts quickly! I'll bet it takes considerably fewer watts than my HF chainsaw and might work off my solar power system with the inverter. Hmm...

Cool! I'll have to take the old bar, chain, and sprocket from the broken Remington 14" electric and make a new saur from them as a backup to my 14" Harbor Fright jobber. Just TIG the sprocket onto a spare nut from the grinder, bend a few pieces of 1/4" plate and Bob's Yer Uncle. I think I'd want to oil the hell out of it frequently, though. It's running faster than normal, methinks.

Getting hit with a broken chin would ruin your day, and maybe your life.

You'll notice the chain is loose on the bar too. But, still a good idea!

So would freezing to death. I'll happily admit that I have only several days of chainsaw experience so far in this lifetime. I don't burn wood and stacking that heavy crap is a real pain in the back.

Maybe an extra piece of sheetmetal for a hand guard is in order, too?

It would be, for me!

Then you can use your wood lathe....

"Larry Jaques"

Pardon me but that's the way "I" say it, ay? :>)}

Yeah, my saw throws the chain every once in a while when it binds up a bit. That rig would just throw the chain in the air like a frisbee or something, NOT too cool!

Also, it is running the chain WAY too fast, you could tell he was levering the bar back and forth so as not to take too wide a bite. It will BADLY overheat the chain and then cook the motor.

Now, the guys who rigged a big logging chain & bar to a small V8 engine, THAT was a chainsaw!!!! But, it took two guys who could wrestle a Kodiak bear and win to pick that saw up.

Jon

A 7 or 9 inch angle grinder, which is pretty clearly what he's using, runs around 6000 RPM. Gasoline chainsaws run at 8000-12000 RPM, so the chain speed is probably a bit lower than optimum.

Here's my hold-my-beer-and-watch-this grinder mod:

Wuss!

I think he might have been trying to slow it down by hooking the lower tooth into the log. It does make it cut faster, but it's not the way to saw wood. As you say, it's hell on the motor.

Yeah, those things are real ballbustin' CUTTIN' rigs, fer sher.

What part runs 8-12krpm? The sprocket? Certainly not the chain!

WTF? 'Splain, please. Is it one of these on steroids?

Eye si!

:>)}

The engine and drive sprocket.

Exactly. I made it to trim the bottom of the barn doors on my shop without removing them. The doors were dragging on the outside pad when the frost heaved it up a bit in winter.

it cuts pretty good.

there's no chain guard but he's also not behind it or standing over it.

Here on South Whidbey Island we have a boat builder, Nichols Brothers Boat Builders, that build a lot of aluminum boats. They modify angle grinders for gouging out aluminum. These modded grinders are equipped a carbide toothed blade. They call it the "Meat Axe". The blade isn't the only mod. They also have a different handle for the hand that isn't holding the main handle. They had to have the tool get the OK from WISHA, which is a state agency similar to OSHA. In order for an employee to use the tool thay have to go through safety training with it.. Eric

Ack.

I guess that blade worked fine for barn doors. Dunno 'bout mahogany.

I used to want one of those saws but instantly forgot it after finding the HF Multifunction Tool. Crom, I love that little noisemaker! It made notching for deck railings incredibly easy, and it helps with the end cuts on holes in plywood, and 100 other things. I'm getting one for my sister next week, and a spare for myself. I found that concrete board dulls any blade you try to put through it, so the extra blades alone are worth the price: They're on sale for $14.97 with coupon. The snobs can have their $400 Feins and $150 Makitas. I'm perfectly happy with a single-speed HF monster, thankyouverymuch. ;)

I have both carbide wheels and chainsaw heads for my 4.5" grinder.

The Lancelot blade will halve a tubafore in 5 seconds flat. Dangerous critter! It's also good for carving, but the Kuttzall carbide wheel is smoother and just a bit safer.