Have you ever operated a chain saw?

[RhodaGrits]

Poll question: Have you ever operated a chain saw?

I think this might be one of the last bastions of men - running a chainsaw. My sister-in-law with a husband who is clueless with a screwdriver and my best friend who is a Facility Operations Manager and describes herself as gender "None of the Above" are the only women I know who have ever set one screaming. This is for cutting down trees or cutting up logs... no horror film stories. (For the record, I consider myself pretty fearless but I wouldn't pick up one of these things for love or money.)

[phillybri]

1. Fuck that...I like having 10 fingers....

n/t

[Red State Rebel]

21. This female uses and owns her own chainsaw!

My hubby is 6'4 and over 260 lbs. He tends to buy tools that suit his size, including a chainsaw that I, at 5'3" could barely lift. I went to Walmart a few years ago and bought a 15" electric one. He and my son laughed and giggled at me until his quit working. He never did get it fixed, he just uses mine now! With 2 acres and plenty of trees, I had to have something!

[VelmaD]

2. I'm a woman and of course I have.

Chainsaws are FUN!

[absyntheNsugar]

6. Rrrrrowrrrrr....yeah....chainsaws are kewl

heh heh heh heh heh

Cutting things up is cool....he he he he he

[VelmaD]

10. hehehehe...hehe...

hehe...fire fire fire...

[baldguy]

28. Yea! Chainsaws is FUN!!!

I borrowed one from my neighbor a few years ago when a tree fell on my car in a big wind.

That's another story, though...

[Maestro]

3. I have

And have all digits accounted for.

[Dookus]

4. Yes...

I bought one last year. It's FUN!!!

I started chopping down stuff right and left. I first bought it to trim a couple branches on a tree, but ended up bringing down the whole tree, as well as a few others.

[bratcatinok]

5. I'm female and I've operated

a chain saw. I had to when the apple tree in the front yard decided to split in half and land on my front porch.

Thankfully I have an attached garagelet that's not big enough for a car but does quite well at storing tools. I had inherited this chain saw from my last marriage and it had made itself a permanent home underneath a bunch of mowing accesories in the garagelet.

To be on the safe side I started the chain saw in my garagelet and then walked through the house gunning it and pretending I was part of the cast of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. (Even though I live in Oklahoma now, I'm a native Texan) I must have been somewhat convincing since the two cats and the dog ran and cowered under the coffee table. Keep in mind the chainsaw is about as big as I am.

I carefully wade into the apple tree branches and buzz my way out. And that's the story on why I have half an apple tree in my front yard.

[guitar man]

12. I was going to say shame on you

For operating the chainsaw inside the house,but then I saw you live in Oklahoma,which would of course make it perfectly normal :)

[bratcatinok]

20. Perfectly normal behaviour!

Especially since the garagelet is padlocked on the outside so I really was trapped in the house. I suppose I could have opened the window and removed the storm window to get out but that seemed abit like going overboard when all I had to do was let the chainsaw rip.

Besides, it was fun!

[SarahB]

7. I have and I'm female

We had some old shrubs (hee- hee, no puns intended) that we had to get rid of a few years back and I was out there too. I'm not a woman who fears power tools! :7

[RhodaGrits]

34. I've got an old farm on a hundred acres and one of the first

things I got myself here was a woodchipper (a big but not huge one, it will cut up 3-4" branches) but the chainsaw has me completely intimidated. I keep having visions of it kicking back thru my thigh.

[qb]

8. You want fearless? Check this out

A female coworker of mine has operated a chainsaw duct-taped to the end of a long pole to prune the trees on her property. Top that!

[BurtWorm]

9. I am a male

11. I was taught to run a chainsaw

By a guy who, while swimming, died for several minutes. He never regained his ability to speak very well.

He wasn't that good at the chainsaw, either, now that I think about it. He had parts missing from at least two fingers on each hand.

What the HELL was I thinking?

[Career Prole]

13. I use one to cut up mesquites...

...so it spends a lot of time getting sharpened. I remember when as a Yankee fresh in Texas I bought that land and thought "Cool! Look at all those trees!" Jeez...
You can't kill 'em, it seems. They're like icebergs in that there's more of 'em below the surface than above, and they all consider it their solemn duty to throw roots out to my septic lines and see just how stopped up they can get them.
They pack long thorns that I swear will puncture a tank tread. If you're riding a tractor through mesquites and you get snagged, just do the safe thing and fall off the tractor and hope you don't get run over, because if you fight it those thorns'll strip sleeve and flesh and add insult to injury by whittling their initials in the bone.
If you cut a limb off of one, it takes it about twenty minutes it seems to sprout ten new ones from the stump...and it's those young ones that have the meanest thorns.
I've been told that after a :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: there'll be nothing left but cockroaches...I'm not thinking so. I think there'll be a bunch of mesquite wondering what happened to all the people and cockroaches.

[cosmokramer]

14. If Bush is re-elected, I am sure to operate a chainsaw...

...watch the pillars of the White House fall!

[LastKnight]

15. very breifly before it was taken away from me.

of course, i was only 6 at the time.

-LK

[bicentennial_baby]

16. Yep

This girl loooves power tools!

[TXlib]

19. I have a power "tool"

or is it, "I _am_ a power tool"?

[sonias]

17. Yes, I love power tools

I have several saws including a chain saw. I had to have something to cut up that dead tree with. I'm now getting into air powered tools. They are way cool too.

Sonia

[MarianJack]

18. I Did...

...and now I have 2 nick names; Lefty or Hook!

[MadHound]

22. Having the need for firewood, yes I've operated one several times

But then there is the guy who taught me how to juggle. He would juggle three live chainsaws(ones that he modified to boot, upped the idle speed for better effect). Balanced on top of a tall boy unicycle. VROOOOM! Last I saw, he had all of his body parts.

Impressive as hell, but you would never catch me doing it. I limit my juggling items to things that won't hurt me if fumbled.

[I AM SPARTACUS]

23. CHAINSAW ARTWORK...

funny that this should come up...I literally just now dropped-off two chainsaw art-pieces at a new gallery for the Spring For Art brouhaha this weekend...

These are cut outa the firewood - and they're called "ooga-boogas"



check 'em out at: www.ooga-booga.net

[jmowreader]

24. A woman runs our Christmas tree trimming operation!

When we sell someone a Christmas tree, we clip off the end of the trunk, shove it in a bag and send it home with the customer. A woman in Garden does it.

[MAlibdem]

25. i prefer using an axe or saw

more fun, imo

but if i have to, i can wield a mean chainsaw

[jpgray]

26. Is that a Frost poem I'm remembering? (nt)

[geniph]

27. I don't own one, but I've rented 'em

and yes, operated 'em myself. Still have all my parts intact.

[SOteric]

29. I'm a chick, and I have operated a chainsaw many times.

Ice carving. It's the only way to get it done.

:hi:

[Mr. Socko]

30. I'm a man and I never have operated a chain saw.

I have no need to.

[mlawson]

31. I think so, but I was really drunk at the time, so I don't remember.

:evilgrin: Hey, just kidding...

Actually, I was tripping.

[DemoTex]

32. I own an Echo chain saw. It is a necessity in the wilds.

However, I will not use the chain saw when I am alone. Way too dangerous. Oddly enough, the events that require the use of the emergency generator, often necessitate the use of the chain saw (ice storms, wind storms, severe thunderstorms, etc.).

[kori]

33. Other???

The first four categories seem fairly clear would other be for termites? I do not think they use chainsaws even though they are good at taking down trees

[NNadir]

35. I love my chainsaw, and I love splitting wood.

I feel a little guilty about it, since burning biomass is so polluting, but I rationalize it by saying the wood would decompose into greenhouse gases anyway.

I won't tell you what I fantasize about while swinging the axe.

[DemoTex]

36. I use the chain saw for emergencies (I am from Texas, heh-heh!).

I split wood with an axe, a sledge, and a maul. Power by Armstrong.

[RhodaGrits]

37. Is it really 4:1 men/women on DU or are more men

drawn to a thread that says "chain saw"?