(I like 'raker' better than 'drag', but don't tell anybody!)
Philbert
Dang you, I just read this whole post straight through and was going to say, "We always called them Drag teeth". Drag teeth, drag teeth! A lot of things are regional, generational, or professional. Virtually all of our work was done in Potomac MD. The highest of high end residential. Linda Carter, Sugar Ray , Moe Howard. We never bought a bucket truck because most residential removals are in the yard, and there was no way you could drive across some one's multi million dollar estate. Now they do. Anyway, here's a regional. If we had to rope a tree down in small pieces we either said "Limbed it out" or Roped it out", I've heard a lot of guys say "Dismantled". We often could not drop or throw a log across a manicured lawn, so we would dig up one big Azalea, the climber would cut one firewood size "Block", and drop it in the hole from the moved plant. So, we blocked it down. Guys here told me I didn't block the tree down, I "Chunked" it down. "Blocking" meant you used a block and tackle, and "Rigged" it down. If we had to use a block and tackle, we would just get a crane and reach across the yard from the street. Like the "Power Saw" thing earlier. I've heard and used the term ever since. I don't know if I ever made a conscious switch to "Chainsaw", or just gradually did it searching for saws.Plus, I've heard a lot of guys from down under that don't call them power saws, or chainsaws, They refer to them as Machines. I've heard the West Coast guy refer to things differently from East Coast guys. I try not to let terminology get on my pet peeve list.
I think my pet peeve here on AS is when a noob with an 18" dull Wild Thing ask's for advice taking down a 30" tree, and a dozen people tell him "You can do it". "You can cut half the notch from one side, then get the other half from the other side, and same thing with the back cut". Looking at the fuzzy pic the noob gives my opinion might be a deep, open notch and a real fast back cut with a 36" bar on a 100CC saw, with a razor sharp chain(blade). If you don't know the person, his equipment, it's condition, and his ability to use it, you can't give advice on something potentially dangerous. To the credit of a lot of guys, their first advice is, "Just pay the tree guy".
My other peeve is the guys that say their brand new chain won't cut, it's bad, factory defect, cut's crooked, and then post a pic of the chain and it looks like they cut my sidewalk in half. Then when you call them on it, they say I may have used it once, but didn't hit anything.
Oh Well, like someone here said, we were all new once, except me, I was born old and grumpy.