who made the first modern chainsaw?

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If you're talking 2-man... there's a lot of controversy about the first "hand-held chainsaw that people could actually use"...

If you're talking one-man chainsaw, which one logger could carry into the woods and work with all day... it's McCulloch's model 3-25, introduced October 1949.


There you go. Although Stihl is credited with inventing the first one man, 2 cycle, gas saw (the German Army used them during WWII), the Mac 3-25 was the saw that popularized the one man, "lightweight" (at 45lbs!!!) 2 cycle, RELIABLE, chainsaw.


Casey
 
it was in the 20's


Sector, made in Sweden.... it's the saw in front of this group of german collectors

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What do I win ??????:greenchainsaw:
 
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its none of the above. it was made in 1926, he also had the first patent on the petro driven saw. facts are facts!!! some folks in here have some awesome historic sawz:clap:
 
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According to the websites of all the major manufacturers, they all were first on the market with the modern, lightweight chainsaw.

Yep, it depends on how you define it...

...but my vote goes to Dolmar......


Comet if "one man" and "light" enter the criteria, maybe......:confused:
 
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in 1926 Andreas Stihl designed the first bucking chainsaw it used an elictric motor. this was publicly accepted as the first ''real'' chainsaw. it was also the first mobile chainsaw. in 1929 he also patanted the first petrol-driven chainsaw, which was operated by two men and known as ''the tree felling machine''. these patents were the first successful ones for hand held mobile chainsaws designed for cutting wood. STIHL STIHL STIHL:clap:
 
too bad people McCulloch, Pioneer and all other company's are just followers. there is only room for 1 first place, and that goes to STIHL
 
Andreas Stihl - Father of the Modern Chainsaw
In 1926, German mechanical engineer, Andreas Stihl patented the "Cutoff Chain Saw for Electric Power". Born in 1896, Andreas Stihl founded a company that manufactured steam boiler pre firing systems in Stuttgart, Germany. In 1929, Stihl patented the first gasoline-powered chainsaw called the tree-felling machine. These were the first successful patents for hand-held mobile chainsaws designed for woodcutting. Andreas Stihl is most frequently credited as being the inventor of the mobile and motorized chainsaw. He invented what we today recognize as being the modern chainsaw.
 
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Built as a bone saw in the 1830's by Bernhard Heine.
u are right about the first ever chainsaw. but we are talking in a tree site so your answer is not what i am looking for.
 
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