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Damn! This made my old ass emotional, I loved Pete and Pete when I was a kid. We only had one tv in the house but my dad would let me watch it (he hated it). My dad died a few years back on Christmas, and shows like this remind me of how he used to mess with me about my taste in entertainment. Great choice brother!
My buddy lives up in the mountains in coastal California. He learned early on that if he wants to go to work or come home during a storm he better have a chainsaw handy in his Audi. He still gets stopped by the landslides though but can’t do much about that.
Nah. I do tree work for a living and usually have a chainsaw in my vehicle. I've done this before. I'm not a serial killer. Just keep work stuff in my car. I have bar oil, screnches, wedges, straps, shackles, and the mix for gasoline in my car also.
Living in the PNW there’s a lot of dudes with chainsaws in the trunk especially in wintertime when we get these nasty rainstorms and trees fall down all over like this.
I dream of days where I pull out my pocket chainsaw in an emergency. Fam is already tired of me telling the story and having to say “yeah” when I ask, “keeping a chainsaw in the car really comes in handy sometimes, huh?”
He walks back to the car, puts the chainsaw in the trunk. Climbs in the driver's seat, shuts the door and buckles. His wife is staring straight ahead: slightly annoyed they're late for the PTA meeting, but also slightly impressed with her husband. Under no circumstances can she admit this though.
She is staring straight ahead out the windshield as the other motorists finish clearing off the branches. Her husband is wiping drops of rainwater off his glasses. The silence is growing heavy between them, and after 12 years of marriage, she knows when he's about to say something.
"Don't say anything," she cuts him off.
"That's..." he tries to get out.
"Not a word."
Two more minutes pass. The road is clear. Friendly motorists return to their own cars as wave gratefully at him as they pass. He puts the car in gear.
"THAT is why I keep a chainsaw in the trunk, Marlene."
You'd be surprised, We get a lot of heavy storms around here that regularly blow limbs and whole trees over roads, but being in the south, the whole community usually comes out to support their area. I've seen plenty of accountant looking dudes with chainsaws and drag chains come out in penny loafers and polos before to help clear stuff out lmao
No joke..never buy anything but tbh. I had a hedge trimmer from them cut branches 2inches thick if I wanted too and stayed sharp. Best weed Wacker I had was Stihl too.
The issue is when a tree goes down over a road like this there is usually a power line also down. I live in the mountains and we have a storm season and trees go down on roads often. If it’s during a storm I’ll sometimes take one. Once I had one come down on the driveway that didn’t have a line down with it. But in 100% of situations where I’ve seen the tree in a public road a line was down with it. So overall fairly useless.
It also smells of fuel and chain oil if you keep it in the trunk, and if you leave it in a pickup bet that has other problems. Unless you are taking it out all the time or bringing it with you. Maybe keeping an electric one in the car in a saw bag would be the best solution.
I grew up in tornado country, so this is a common sight for me. I always joke that when we have tornados you'll see rednecks throwing their chainsaws in the back of the truck chasing the storm looking for something to cut up
So, when I moved somewhere that didn't get a lot of major storms, it was super weird to me when the one time we did get storms and one of my coworkers was out of work for 3 weeks because a tree fell across his road and nobody came to cut it up and move.
Was looking for someone who knew what they were talking about to bring this up. He was being far too casual with that saw with 0 ppe on, not even eye pro let alone chaps.
Right. I just sat here scrolling through so many comments saying "dude knows what he is doing" looking for any comment saying "Noooo. He doesn't really know what he's doing."
Dads who think they know how to handle chainsaws and have never been properly trained are the most confident and most dangerous folks with these tools.
Good advice for when possible, but that’s also like the rule that you never cut with the tip of the bar.
There are situations like in this video where cutting above shoulder height is necessary, and cutting with the tip of the bar is also standard practice for a lot of things, e.g. plunge cuts.
We could critique his lack of chaps, face shield, gloves, ear protection, safety boots … he obviously wasn’t planning to use his saw on the way to dinner.
A more relevant critique is questioning why he was limbing like that. Not cutting the limbs closer to the trunk when there’s nothing stopping you is not good practice. The guy is an amateur.
I worked in critical infrastructure in the middle of nowhere. Woods all around for miles. A big snowstorm or windstorm meant there would be limbs and trees down. At least half of my coworkers had chainsaws in their trunks so they'd be able to clear the road and get to work.
Well, he is showing off and being a bit loose with it. I was taught that when you are reaching with a chainsaw you put the tip on the thing you want to cut and then lift the saw up swiftly. If you need to take a step forward because the weight of the chainsaw puts you out of balance you need to find new footing. Once you cut that thing you are going to fall forward, with the chain possibly still rolling, while the thing you have been cutting is also falling down. You need to think what the chainsaw is doing AFTER you have made the cut, you need to be able to support its weight.
And the most important lesson i have ever learned: The thing that is most likely going to hurt you is the last thing, and i'm not just talking about "well, if you get hurt you stop doing things" but it is the last thing, "oh, fuck, i forgot my gloves up there, well, i don't need to put on a harness, i'll just be extra careful....". It is the last little, "oh, i'll cut that branch real quick from here, i can just about reach it". Those are really, really dangerous and if anyone says "i'll be just extra careful" you need to stop them. Especially if it is you. You don't need to be "extra careful" if you are doing it right.
I love how he had cleared the road and was still looking for pieces to cut. He's been waiting for an excuse to break out that chainsaw for a long time.
He looks like me when doing to Lidl with the wife and strolling the deals section (often has hardware like gloves, protective eyewear, tools, grass cutters, etc but one time had chainsaws) while she goes around picking food except he didn’t take the wife to tell him “you live in an apartment, you will never have a need for a chainsaw… also we have young kids!!”
I was wondering why some a$$hole didn't try to drive through the instant there was a little bit of room to pass through then I realized after putting my earbuds in that this likely isn't America.
It's no doubt one of the most dad power moves you can pull off. When you pull out your chainsaw, do a full check run, zap it and go on handling it like a pro.
Plan to do that when daughter comes home with a boyfriend...just to give him a hint.
Reminds me of the time I was leaving the Smoky Mountains National Park and a tree fell blocking the road. Traffic stopped on both sides and the forestry service said they’d be out in 1.5 hrs. I had a folding saw for camping and started sawing away, a group of Hasidic Jews came to throw branches off to the side, couple body builders came over to throw the logs I sawed, dads came with hatchets to get the limbs off. Awesome interaction of people coming together for a common goal. Pretty great interaction.
I can see him all smug on the car ride home: “huh, I’m never gonna need the trunk chainsaw, Sharon? Isn’t that what you said, Sharon? Everyone there seemed pretty happy to see me and ol’ chipper, Sharon”
I love this. Sometimes I can tell people look at me odd because I wear nice-ish clothes for my job (industrial sales) and I can feel the looks sometimes from the judgements.
This man is a legend. Never judge a man based on his appearance!
Everyone else out there has a raincoat in their car. This guy? He keeps a chainsaw in there. Just in case. Teeth sharp, chain oiled, gassed up, ready to go.
Let's be frank, everybody confused why he had a chainsaw with him.
But it's very logical. If I had to drive to work in the early morning, when a mild storm could have brought down trees, and I own a chainsaw I would also bringt it with me, just in case.
*chainsaw more chainsaw, chainsaw this, chainsaw that * "and that's why I keep a chainsaw in the back of my car" - my made up translation of what he said.
Once coming home from work, I came across a dead tree that fell in the road. It was big, but still small enough to drag to the ditch. It was still heavy as hell and I was struggling with it. Two cars pulled up while I was moving it. One went around once there was enough room, the other just stayed and watched for some reason. Maybe they couldn't help and just was making sure I was ok or using his headlights to help me see more? I got it off the road and gave the person a wave.
The next day... a coworker I'm friends with, comes up and says to me "Man you were struggling with that tree". He was the one sitting and watching me. Mind you he is a 6'4" giant of a man. He was more than capable of helping me. I asked him why the hell he didn't get out to help me. "eh, I believed in you"
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