History: Chainsaws were invented to help with childbirth

[GrizG]

https://www.popsci.com/story/science/weirdest-thing-chainsaw-childbirth-santorio-delayed-conception/

So much for manliness!

 

[ATH]

Knew it was the creation of an orthopedic surgeon...did't know it was for child birth!

 

[Huskybill]

Today there electric driven with full skip chain? Sorry I just had too. Lol

Scary, one slip the nursery becomes a butcher shop.

 

[MacAttack]

i knew it was medical but I thought it was for cutting bone in tight spots where a conventional saw would not work well.

Those poor bastards back then...

 

[motorhead99999]

I read that and it made my taint instantly hurt

 

[ATH]

i knew it was medical but I thought it was for cutting bone in tight spots where a conventional saw would not work well.
....

I think that is the situation described.

 

[LegDeLimber]

There appears to be another tool on a sliding~tube w/thumbscrews
mounted on the side.
I Gotta ask if they ever screwed that into your noggin and tried to just yank ya out?
.....before they semi-vivisectioned poor ol Mom? X^D

I assume the telescoping part is to facilitate tightening the chain.
But the threaded tip is what really catches my eye.

Heck, maybe it folds down and you screw it into a stump ( or a corpse?)
to hold the saw like a stump clamp ,similar to the modern but now separate holding rigs.

 

[nolids]

Another name for medical doctors is "old sawbones".