Improvised Russian chainsaw...

[Climbingmagnus]

No, just no!

 

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[geoff]

Well, it could do with a chain oiler, other than that, highly comendable, I wonder what the chain speed works out at, probably 100m/s so my hiflex trousers would need upgrading...

[openboater]

You wait, they'll have them in Aldi before april. Excellent bit of backyard engineering. Necessity is the mother of invention. If the old guy has got that far in life he's probably learnt a lot along the way. As far as he's concerned his life is now easier, he can hang up his hand saw.

[Climbingmagnus]

true but I wouldn't want to be around when the chain snaps and goes over to say hello to the fingers on his left hand.

[difflock]

I was absolutly taken with the simplicity of his well engineered "bodge"

dunk it in any open vessel of oil to lube the chain periodically.

Chain Also looked relatively sharp?

HOWEVER

I did however note the saw was "live" during the whole operation.

I, even when younger, was slightly more safety conscious that that.

M

[Sussex Groundie]

You got to hand it to our friends in Eastern Europe, theres us worrying about Autotune, he's not bothered!

[predator]

nothing wrong with it same one as mine lol

 

but saying that why not just fit a circular saw blade thus no oil needed but dont forget to take the guard off to make way for a bigger blade/gyro grinder

[Graham]

Fair play to the man. He needed a saw and now he has one. As said before...necessity is the mother of invention.

[Rich2484]

Ok. SO fair play to him for doing it. Engineering at it's finest I reckon.

 

Safe, not a hope in hell. But then it's Russia so h and s isn't exactly top of there list.

 

It does however remind me of a story on here not so long ago of the bloke who was using his disc cutter on logs and it kicked into his gut. Any else remember that? Wounder if it's the same bloke....

[wardyc1]

Good grief!! Never in a hundred years would you catch me using a saw like that..........