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Chainsaws: A History
enlarge	Author: David Lee Publisher: Harbour Pub Co Category: Book List Price: ~~$44.95~~ Buy Used: $16.98 You Save: $27.97 (62%) New (28) from $27.77 Format: Illustrated Media: Hardcover Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 216 Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7 Dimensions (in): 11.1 x 10.1 x 0.9 ISBN: 1550173804 Dewey Decimal Number: 608 EAN: 9781550173802 ASIN: 1550173804 Publication Date: December 1, 2006 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Condition: May have small mark or shelf wear / Legendary independent bookstore online since 1994. Reliable customer service and no-hassle return policy.

Editorial Reviews: Product Description "Winner of the 2007 Award for Best Non-Fiction Book from Arts Hamilton Winner of US Magazine Independent Publisher's IPPY Award for Best Western Canadian Regional Title" "It rips, and cuts, it makes a horrible racket--a chainsaw is a frightening thing. I write not to glorify its terrible power but to acknowledge its place in the most sweeping revolution that technology has wrought in the 20th century--the revolution of individual empowerment." So begins author David Lee in this first-ever book on the worldwide history of the chainsaw, an invention that transformed the forest industry and eventually became the indispensable companion of every red-blooded country dweller. Chainsaws, it turns out, have a curious history and since the 19th century they have taken on many forms. From 600-pound steam-powered behemoths to gas chainsaws mounted on wheeled carriages to diesel chainsaws and electric chainsaws with portable generators, this book musters a curious collection of contraptions and inventors the like of which we haven't seen since "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines," Carefully tracing the evolutionary threads of countless short-lived pioneer devices, author Lee, working together with a worldwide network of chainsaw buffs, traces the roaring, woodchip-and-oil-sprayed progress of what is now a lightweight modern machine that holds a place of honour in the world's woodsheds. "Chainsaws" is a handsome gift book full of wonderful old and new photos along with priceless chainsaw ephemera that will warm the heart of anyone who's ever held a power tool. From Andreas Stihl's Black Forest experiments to Vancouver's booming WWII chainsaw industry, to the postwar raceto develop one-man saws, the rise and fall of Canada's proud Pioneer brand, and the late entry into the field of the centuries-old arms manufacturer Husqvarna, it examines why the chainsaw is no good for massacres (in Texas or elsewhere), and why it is unlikely to replaced by any new high-tech inventions such as lasers.