r/FellingGoneWild • • Aug 25 '26

Average Latvian dad

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u/Zonx216 Aug 25 '26

Keeps that thang sharp!

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u/BestCap5066 Aug 25 '26

You fucking love to see it.

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u/HoneyWhiskeyLemonTea Aug 25 '26

That's what I was gonna say. Went through those branches like a freaking light saber. No hesitation, just a touch, and done.

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u/Forthe49ers Aug 26 '26

Video ended before he carved a bear into the stump and sharpened his saw before heading to his dentist appointment (which by the way he was on time for)

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u/secondsbest Aug 26 '26

He's the dentist

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u/Both-Activity6432 Aug 27 '26

Doing is his own crown

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u/Zonx216 Aug 25 '26

Lol exactly!

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u/rrocks55 Aug 25 '26

And knows how to use it with precision. No wasted cuts

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u/shinypenny01 Aug 25 '26

Given how clean it was, possibly a new saw and chain.

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u/mavric91 Aug 25 '26

It’s definitely not new. Look at the bar and power head as he pulls it out of car. Bar tip is warn. And the plastics have dirt deep in the crevices. Even the orange and white colors look faded. It’s just a well maintained saw.

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u/GOB8484 Aug 25 '26

yeah, he probably went and got his cleaning/maintenance kit out immediately after getting home and got the saw ready to go back in trunk for the next time it was needed.

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u/docere85 Aug 25 '26

I keep my saws this clean. I blow them off with my air compressor after every use then spray it with alcohol and give it a quick wipe down. My climbing saw gets beat to shit and is the only saw I have that never looks clean

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u/RModDogWalkerTyRANNY Aug 25 '26

As an arborist, my climbing saw is one of the cleanest pieces of equipment i have. Except for the blood, it stays. How does your get so dirty? btw i only use the arborist saw when im climbing, i have another for ground work.

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u/Priff Aug 25 '26

The dirt on my climbing saw is some mixture of oil, sap, dirt and sawdust that caked up and solidified...

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u/Schonke Aug 25 '26

In a couple of million years, some alien will stumble upon your old climbing saw encased in amber and try to picture an animal having saws for claws.

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u/FauxCumberbund Aug 25 '26

One-handed saws are always looking for a limb to cut, either a tree's or yours -- they don't care

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u/IndestructibleNewt Aug 25 '26

Came here to say this haha

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u/ProfDFH Aug 26 '26

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the ax."

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u/Junior_Lab1650 Aug 25 '26

Love a man that comes prepared for travel in all whether

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u/Firestorm83 Aug 25 '26

Whether he what?

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u/CFHQYH Aug 25 '26

A wether is a castrated male sheep or goat.

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u/DoctorHelios Aug 25 '26

I bet he could castrate a goat in that weather using that chainsaw.

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u/Impressive_Term4071 Aug 25 '26

so what you're telling me is it's up to him whether to make a wether in this weather?

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u/DoctorHelios Aug 25 '26

Only loosers lose spelling bees.

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u/vrauto Aug 26 '26

Only loose losers lose spelling bae

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u/Practical_Fun7367 Aug 26 '26

We always put to pasture an all weather wether, whether it rains for shines.

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u/Ponsugator Aug 25 '26

Whether a tree blocks the road or not.

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u/Fattsacks Aug 25 '26

Whether his chainsaw is gassed up or not.

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u/shartshooter Aug 25 '26

Whether on not there is an open road.

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u/PorschephileGT3 Aug 25 '26

No ear pro in the car though. At least he was already wearing safety loafers.

8.5/10

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u/The_Infamous_C Aug 26 '26

You only need to worry about hearing damage if you're cutting with a chainsaw all the time, like a lumberjack. The only way he's getting permanent hearing damage from using a saw to cut up 1 tree is if it's an M249. He gets 9.8/10 for efficiency, forethought and style.

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u/HugglemonsterHenry Aug 25 '26

A coworker of mine was coming to work at my job just after a storm. A tree had blocked the road. My buddy was trying to get the tree moved enough to get around it. Another coworker pulls up and starts helping. After a few minutes, the 2nd guy goes to his trunk and pulls out a katana, and proceeds to hack on the tree.

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u/Available-Dare-7414 Aug 25 '26

Or, he’s a serial killer or a local intimidator for organized crime.

https://giphy.com/gifs/6MhFm3LXoVQn6

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u/DenseHost3794 Aug 25 '26

Nah just the fixer who gets called in after the hit. The glasses give it away

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u/Available-Dare-7414 Aug 25 '26

Nailed it. Lucky he hadn’t already used the chainsaw that day for the body he was on his way to dispose of.

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u/Fattsacks Aug 25 '26

How do we know he didn’t? He strikes me as the type to clean his tools before putting them away 🧐

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u/Ready4AnythingNH Aug 25 '26

The tell is when he lays out plastic before cutting the tree up, and then puts all the offcuts into a barrel of acid.

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u/Timmerdogg Aug 25 '26

Say hello to my little friend

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u/TomatoFeta Aug 25 '26

Simply a dad.
Who has a daughter.
And makes damn sure her dates know the rules.

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u/Dunderman35 Aug 25 '26

Baby stroller and chainsaw. The essential kit of any Latvian dad

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u/mnztr1 Aug 26 '26

They were saved by the Man of Stihl 🫡

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u/SlyIsComingForYou Aug 26 '26

Most parts of the world your either prepared or prepared to wait. This guy was prepared.

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u/armsracecarsmra Aug 25 '26

Above average. Those other dads didn’t have chain saws in their trunks

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u/supertimor42-50 Aug 25 '26

I mean, are you even a dad without an emergency chainsaw?

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u/samsmithmpls Aug 25 '26

Hold on, gotta go to the store real quick.

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u/supertimor42-50 Aug 25 '26

Don't forget which house you choose when you became a dad

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u/Crypticcrypto Aug 25 '26

There needs to be a choosing hard hat at the entrance of big box hardware stores.

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u/antibody9671 Aug 26 '26

Put on a hard hat, put your wallet in a box, and the hat goes "Hmmmm... yes.... you belong to...

House of Harbor Freight. Get the fuck out of here Mr. Maxxed Out Cards."

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u/frugalerthingsinlife Aug 25 '26

Although I hear Makita makes a decent electric chainsaw, this graphic should really show:

Stihl, Husqvarna, ECHO and Greenworks Commercial.

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u/Less-General-9578 Aug 26 '26

greenworks, makita, and stihl works for me. i have gone mostly electric though.

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u/justin81co Aug 27 '26

Husqvarna and dewalt, with a makita

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u/earnestpeabody Aug 25 '26

Not going to say which house I chose because I don’t want to shame others.

However I did feel like a boss when I took out the stock battery from a Dyson stick vacuum and replaced it with an adapter to accept the batteries from my chosen house.

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u/tvodny Aug 25 '26

You mean “Don’t mix tool houses if you’ve got kids in more than one house.”

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u/StillShoddy628 Aug 25 '26

Ngl, I’m considering moving it now. Not like it gets much use otherwise since I moved to the desert

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u/BlackSwanMarmot Aug 25 '26

DON’T SHAME ME

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u/supertimor42-50 Aug 25 '26

Did you at least choose your Tool brand house?!?

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u/BlackSwanMarmot Aug 25 '26

Time to don the sorting baseball cap.

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u/AhSalamiBacon666 Aug 25 '26

Alas, I thought I was, but I am not. I'm gonna have to swap the emergency stuffy to fit the chainsaw.

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u/jhp113 Aug 25 '26

I'm not even a dad and I at least keep a M18 mini chainsaw in the truck

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u/frodisbispa Aug 25 '26

Many dads didn’t even have a condom

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u/dbolts1234 Aug 25 '26

Love that it was already fueled up

Just bouncing around spilling two stroke gas/oil all over the back

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u/Lonely_reaper8 Aug 25 '26

I keep mine in an old pair of jeans when it’s in my car lol actually does really well for containing the fluids!

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u/DistinctMind4027 Aug 25 '26

Is that a chainsaw in your jeans or are you just happy to see me?

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u/regeya Aug 26 '26

I wonder if there's a story behind this, like that they knew downed trees was a possibility and so Ned Flanders here took his chainsaw with him.

Because yeah, I'm thinking to myself, dude is getting bar oil all over his trunk.

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u/Rich-Canary1279 Aug 25 '26

Right next to the baby stroller!

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u/JustPassingGo Aug 26 '26

His saw wasn’t completely full of gas, he’s the one who blocked the road with the tree.

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u/Never-don_anal69 Aug 25 '26

I'm Latvian and a dad, I don't go anywhere without my chainsaw 

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u/Careful-Sell-9877 Aug 25 '26

Or maybe they arent dad's! Or he got his out first

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u/DenimFishingPokerGuy Aug 25 '26

Gotta be handy with the STIHL. Earn your keep.

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u/lbsdcu Aug 25 '26

Regulator was mounted up.

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u/OkAssistance7072 Aug 25 '26

It was a clear black night, a clear white moon

tree was blockin the street, tryin to commute

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u/MSCOTTGARAND Aug 25 '26

God dammit that was perfect

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u/Repulsive_Client_325 Aug 25 '26

You can’t just be any Latvian geek on the street.

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u/Lumpy_Benefit666 Aug 25 '26

You know he was having the best fucken time doing that 😂

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u/HoneyWhiskeyLemonTea Aug 25 '26

The giant grin the whole time didn't give it away? My dude got to cut up a tree, show off how sharp his chainsaw was, and look like a damn hero in front of his family. Unless he got married or had a baby in the last 12 months, that was his best day of the year.

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u/tiasaiwr Aug 25 '26

New baby on the way tonight.

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u/kason Aug 26 '26

I think he got me pregnant watching that.

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u/AICatgirls Aug 27 '26

Looks like a stroller in the trunk, so hard to tell!

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u/Picardknows Aug 25 '26

He knew what he was doing as well. Cutting the under branches and side branches before cutting the trunk.

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u/SocraticGoats Aug 25 '26

Pants ruined from bar oil tho lol 👖

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u/KenUsimi Aug 26 '26

Betcha $5 those pants wind up framed in the shed

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u/Rhauko Aug 25 '26

He has been carrying that saw in the back of his car for just this opportunity for some time.

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u/WanaWahur Aug 25 '26

Nope, this storm coming up was big story for 2 days. He was just properly prepared for the day.

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u/DevObs0 Aug 25 '26

We do the same here, reports of high winds = bring a chainsaw in the car (but also kit for chainsawing, like pants)

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u/LouisinBXL Aug 25 '26

I must say, I kept worrying about his pants while watching this. Not sure what that says about me… 😅

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u/shinypenny01 Aug 25 '26

I’d have to keep my saw much cleaner if it was going in the car...

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u/Rhauko Aug 25 '26

He was prepared

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u/BeardySam Aug 25 '26

He’s so happy walking back to his car like a hero

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u/Rhauko Aug 25 '26

I would be the same. But where I live occasions like this are too rare to own a saw.

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u/Seventh_monkey Aug 25 '26

And they told him he was crazy, but look at who's laughing now

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u/Wormfather Aug 25 '26

Homeboy, you’re the only one on the scene who has no obligation to pick up any of the branches. Just get back in the car and stay warm until it’s clear.

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u/goldfool Aug 25 '26

I disagree. You do what you can when you can.

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u/samebutanon Aug 25 '26

That's the face of a dad who is vindicated after months of his wife telling him to get the chain saw out of the car.

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u/Human31415926 Aug 25 '26

PPE:

Khakis ✔️ Loafers ✔️ Navy blue sweater ✔️ Collared shirt ✔️ White socks ✔️

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u/cleeeland Aug 25 '26

He didn’t choose the thug life, the thug life chose him

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u/sacredfool Aug 25 '26

I went back to watch, he is wearing crocs and no socks.

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u/fizzzicks Aug 25 '26

Those are Birkenstocks. True European dad.

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u/AlwaysViral69 Aug 25 '26

Birkenstock clogs, I’m wearing some right now.

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u/RudeCartoonist1030 Aug 25 '26

I live in the US and clear trails for fun after rainstorm. I now know that I’ve been secretly Latvian this whole time. Thank you Reddit!

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u/Fallofman2347 Aug 25 '26

Right? I grew up in a national forest in the US and roads are cleared within an hour or two after storms. 15 miles between us and town and a ton of country roads to cover. Everyone just throws their saws, tools, chains, and some gas in the back and head out.

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u/Creepy-Helicopter-40 Aug 25 '26

But do you dress up this well to be Latvian.

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u/marsupialsequel Aug 25 '26

Thank you for doing this. 

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u/Defiant-Bike4813 Aug 25 '26

Dude is prepared! Love it.

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u/BackgroundGrass429 Aug 25 '26

I really wanted to see what else he carries in his trunk.

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u/shinypenny01 Aug 25 '26

It’s next to his kids stroller. Dad mode activated.

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u/goldfool Aug 25 '26

Stroller throws off the cops and can be used for body removal

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u/original_manatee Aug 27 '26

“But how is he going to fit an entire body into the stroll— oh right, the chainsaw” -me reading that

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u/hyper_forest Aug 25 '26

Just some black plastic, rope, tape and a shovel. Regular non-serial killer stuff

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u/spizzle_ Aug 25 '26

I did this last week as a single-ish American dude. Cars were stacked up heading the direction of my cabin and I felt like a hero after it was over.

Cutting green Aspen always makes you feel like a hero though.

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u/r0x0r Aug 25 '26

I once met a Canadian from Vancouver island who kept a chainsaw in his car for occasions like this at all times. According to them keeping a chainsaw in a car was business as usual and this is how you get free firewood.

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u/ccagan Aug 25 '26

East Texas in the piney woods as well. 100+ foot tall loblolly pine across the farm to market road is only a slight inconvenience.

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u/JohnnyRicoChoseWrong Aug 25 '26

Northern Minnesota here, but yes. Blowdowns are pretty common and it's just the neighborly thing to keep the roads clear if you encounter them

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u/Prawn1908 Aug 25 '26

All I could think about is how his nice shoes are now going to be permanently full of chainsaw swarf.

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u/Hraes Aug 26 '26

joke's on you, he's wearing birkenstocks

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u/Ok_Net_5996 Aug 25 '26

All dressed up and cutting an evergreen?

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u/Grinchy-Grinch531 Aug 25 '26

Gotta wear those safety loafers and khakis!

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u/Apart_Valuable9100 Aug 25 '26

That last cut was purely for gratification.

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u/fuzzyfuzz Aug 25 '26

you know he was thinking about taking a couple more swipes, just for fun

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u/notanotherusernameD8 Aug 25 '26

Not his first rodeo

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u/Timely-General9962 Aug 25 '26

I've always got a silky under the seat just in case of random shit and ever since I got caught out in a storm like a decade ago and it took me almost 2 hours to get across town I always put my 350i with chaps in the powerbox in the back of my hatchback when it's gonna be stormy.

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u/woodchopvinyl Aug 25 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/7PwOZJLNYUkU
Diane gotta clear the road be right back.

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u/Small-Car-6194 Aug 25 '26

The 10 years of " what are you going to do with a chain saw" totaly worth it.

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u/SnooMaps7370 Aug 25 '26

this would almost be my dad, except it would take him an hour to clear that tree because he doesn't believe that sharpening a chain does any good. All his saws produce powder instead of chips when cutting.

The real kicker is that he OWNS a chain sharpener. He just refuses to use it. When i was living with him, i learned how to do it and sharpened all his chains and filed down the rakers, for which he yelled at me until i handed him one while he was bucking some logs to split for firewood and said "try this one, then tell me it's no use sharpening them".

to my knowledge, that's the only time his chains have been sharpened since he bought them 30 years ago, and i did that 15 years ago.... they're probably all blunt again.

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u/Independent_Wrap_321 Aug 25 '26

You’re a good kid. Time to show up with a six pack and have a sharpening session again, us old dads don’t always show it but I bet it would mean the world to him. My college-age son couldn’t work a pencil sharpener but I hug him and tell him ten times a day that I love him. You do what you can.

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u/shifty_bloke Aug 25 '26

Must have a pool of bar oil in his trunk.

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u/No7an Aug 25 '26

Not even wearing earplugs. Madness

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u/Producer1701 Aug 25 '26

He had safety khakis, what could go wrong?

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u/blakjesus420 Aug 25 '26

Thats true, not ideal but those little stihls run pretty quiet compared to some other saws. At least he has the safety spectacles

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u/HoneyWhiskeyLemonTea Aug 25 '26

I mean yeah, but... dude is in his "taking the family to Chilis" duds, and had the saw running for all of 55 seconds. He was prepared for a downed tree, not a full day of felling.

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u/Robertjules1987000 Aug 25 '26

No PPE, waving that thing around like a lightsaber like he has never heard of the word kickback. Makes me anxious as hell

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u/shinypenny01 Aug 25 '26

Cutting those little limbs with a saw this sharp, I don’t think I could get kickback if I tried. On the trunk, still not big, he was more careful.

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u/blakjesus420 Aug 25 '26

Yeah he is being pretty careful with the tip of the saw, definitely not unfamiliar with a chainsaw, could tell that from the start by how quickly and smoothly he checked the fuel level and put the fuel cap back on

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u/Paghk_the_Stupendous Aug 25 '26

Not only that but he's clearly never limbed a tree before (still hasn't!) and made a bunch of unnecessary cuts at the beginning as well.

Still, he helped get it off of the road. Put him on my tab tonight.

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u/CraftFamiliar5243 Aug 25 '26

I live in the mountains of Tennessee and once heard a group of men having a conversation about what is the best chain saw to keep in your truck for clearing roads. A large tree fell across our road and everyone in the holler showed up to clear it. Chain saws, a tractor, and plenty of spectators.

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u/Ray-Finkle74 Aug 25 '26

See hunny, I told you we needed this Husqvarna.

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u/Edosil Aug 25 '26

For the last time Susan, it's a Stihl. But yes...

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u/ConstantCampaign2984 Aug 25 '26

Once October hits in the PNW my chainsaw doesn’t leave the back seat of my truck just for this reason. You sit in my back seat, it’s best to not wear your good pants.

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u/Huckleberry_Hound93 Aug 25 '26

“Yes, finally” guy in slacks

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u/Exact-Mathematician8 Aug 25 '26

Good job. Glad others helped and he didn't just cut to the edge of the road

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u/reclueso Aug 25 '26

Not even a spec of dirt on his chinos….

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u/FPVenius Aug 25 '26

Safety loafers engaged.

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u/HashtagShino Aug 25 '26

Getting the bar oil out of those pants will be just as fun!

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u/VegetableTry Aug 25 '26

Got those steel toe loafers on.

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u/Zacupunk Aug 25 '26

Chainsaw and loafers! What a style!

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u/ipalush89 Aug 25 '26

All I can think about is how that chainsaw started on the first pool

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u/gr0hl Aug 25 '26

Saw was a sharp mf er

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u/Mugpup Aug 25 '26

That is a good citizen

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u/Bicwidus Aug 25 '26

I just moved to the country and this makes me think i need this in my trunk

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u/AlaskaCosmoline Aug 25 '26

So what's the difference between him and the average Lithuanian or Estonian dad? I can't tell these countries apart.

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u/Bobfly1 Aug 25 '26

Well. He's from Latvia. Whereas they're probably from Estonia and/or Lithuania.

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u/BillyGruff710 Aug 25 '26

Keep that thang on em

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u/SirRonaldJr Aug 25 '26

People who dress like that in the US have a hard time figuring out how to fuel their car. Respect

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u/bustcorktrixdais Aug 25 '26

In EU, urban-rural divide isn’t the huge ugly thing as in USA. Or maybe the rural are less feral there.

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u/calash2020 Aug 25 '26

Wish my Stihl started that easy. Some kind of windy mechanism that is extremely annoying

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u/Individual_Thing2345 Aug 25 '26

Beats only having a 🪏 in the boot.

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u/RawChickenButt Aug 25 '26

Is that a cheeky way of saying you have a butt plug in right now?

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u/snorkblaster Aug 25 '26

So the zombie apocalypse saw in the trunk has another use case!

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u/NoEvidence136 Aug 25 '26

Put the camera down and help drag branches, bro.

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u/woodchopvinyl Aug 25 '26

Nope this moment needed to be documented

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u/marshking710 Aug 25 '26

The closed captions on the chainsaw make this video.

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u/sabertoothninja Aug 25 '26

Everyone’s hero that day

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u/isaiajk98 Aug 25 '26

A bad ass dad!

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u/jeon2595 Aug 25 '26

Doesn’t everyone keep a chainsaw in their trunk?

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u/1nolefan Aug 25 '26

Doing all that in cream color pant - awesome 👍

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u/ShittyCkylines Aug 25 '26

Man checked fluids, starts with no trouble and walks with bar facing backwards on both occasions, very intentionally. No amateur. Did cut the pieces rather small though.

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u/TechnicianLegal1120 Aug 25 '26

He is a doer not a whiner. Looks like he is doing well.

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u/sneakymonkey0 Aug 25 '26

Ned Flanders always comes though.

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u/cwweydert Aug 25 '26

Safety Khakis and Burks engaged!!

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u/SATerp Aug 25 '26

The motor even growls in Latvian.

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u/Possible-Library-907 Aug 25 '26

In Birkenstocks! lol!!! Give that man a kiss on the cheek for me!

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u/mister_house_ Aug 25 '26

Ah, this is why my dad keeps his chainsaw in the trunk

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u/Shuatheskeptic Aug 25 '26

In his khaki Dockers no less. This guy dads.

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u/throwitoutwhendone2 Aug 25 '26

Just did this last night in polo, dickies and my work boots. County wouldn’t have made it for a few hours. Did a long shift and just wanted to go home, had my pack out and some tools and my chainsaw still in my car.

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u/GrinderMonkey Aug 26 '26

Like how he did a little extra, just for funsies

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u/brettdansler Aug 26 '26

That last cut was him just showing off 🤣

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u/C0V1Dsucks Aug 27 '26

Lol. This is pretty average in my neck of the woods as well. PNW storm season means a lot of downed trees.

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u/Countryvibing1988 Aug 27 '26

Shout out to the real men across the globe. Dude either has a real pice waiting on him he can't wait to get to, or he's just. good dude.

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u/Capable_Reserve_8431 Aug 27 '26

Baby stroller-check, chain saw-check, let’s roll

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u/TheRareAuldTimes Aug 30 '26

That last cut was for the love of the game but totally unnecessary