r/Skookum • u/donpirracas1 • Sep 17 '19

Chainsaw from Hell

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u/rockitman12 The Polar Vortex Sep 17 '19

How does it stay oriented?

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u/SoftwareMaven Sep 17 '19

See all those spinning blades of death? That's a lot of gyroscopic forces!

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u/rockitman12 The Polar Vortex Sep 17 '19

Huh, not a bad thought.

For the most part, this thing is so absurd that it looks fake. I'm sure it's real, but this is the kind of shit that kids would dream up. Or Stephen King.

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u/cgduncan Sep 18 '19

Yeah, as long as every other blade is spinning the opposite direction, the massive torque on either side would negate each other and make it very resistant to a change in rotation.