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Chainsaw Powered by a V8 Car Engine

Posted July 31, 2014 9:44 AM

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Whitlands Engineering is an Australian company that manufactures wood splitters, firewood processors, and awesomeness. In order to advance their dominance of the latter field, the company built a chainsaw powered by a 4.2-liter car engine extracted from a 1985 Holdren WB Ute. Sadly, the company has no intentions of mass-producing this excellent design. It's just a one-off marketing tool. That's a pity because I could really use it to--well, nothing around the house, I suppose. But if I owned something this cool, I would find a good use for it.

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07/31/2014 10:44 AM

Old news...

Look for hotsaw or racing saw on your favorite search engine.

These are an excellent solution for those afflicted with polydactylism.

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08/01/2014 8:05 AM

Don't mess with the guy who runs this saw.
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07/31/2014 1:58 PM

For those odd-jobs around the house ...

and a bit of landscaping

But for that new pool, we've got

Not a chain saw but, as Pops always said, "The right tool for the right job!"
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07/31/2014 2:08 PM

Why would anyone want to saw a chain anyway?

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07/31/2014 2:34 PM

Wow, I think you went well into the future with that one!

...but I think that's more of a buzz saw type....

For tree cutting it's hard to beat these things....

These are pretty cool...

http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/meet-the-five-scariest-tree-killing-machines-video.html

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08/04/2014 10:35 AM

some of that logging equipment is pretty cool. (In a production type of way)

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OK, let's play Paper,Rock,CHAINSAW!

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Don't mess with the farmer's daughter----

Or wife

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07/31/2014 5:10 PM

That's just the Aussies trying "one up" the BBC Top gear V8 blender!

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07/31/2014 6:13 PM

It did work better than the soon followed V8 rocking chair...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ9-yw6EgCQ

Which I think then moved on to a V8 mobilized stage....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-qvvQbzdCQ

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07/31/2014 9:52 PM

Tool Time?

Red Green?

I'll pass.
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07/31/2014 10:36 PM

Or the lesser known TCM Tech shop

I have a grumpy stray cat that moved into my shop recently and I have a old International fire truck with a 549 cu inch V8 so I am thinking that I may need to design some sort of V8 powered 'cat tosser'.
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08/01/2014 5:05 PM

Well they got this dual purpose sno-blower-cat tosser....?

Guaranteed to scare the bejesus out of any cat.....

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