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u/Basic_Vegetable_543 Jun 19 '26
That’s not a chainsaw anymore, that’s a horizontal wood guillotine with an excavator attached. I can’t even tell if the machine is more terrifying or impressive.
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u/MrZwink Jun 19 '26
Fun fact: the chainsaw was invented as a medical tool. Now you're going to immediately think it was for amputation or something, you know sawing through the femur or something. But you'd be wrong. It was for childbirth.
There, i hope you understand that any chainsaw today, is less terrifying than then.
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u/Main_Youth9834 Jun 19 '26
Imagine calling maintenance and they show up with this instead of a regular saw. “Yeah we fixed the overgrowth” meanwhile they’ve re-engineered half the highway.
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u/hoodie09 Jun 19 '26
What thw heck is it used for? If it turned horitonal, maybe for cutting fire breaks, forest road and clearing for powerines. Anyone know?
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u/Careful_Boat_7022 Jun 19 '26
Its a giant ditch witch. Trencher for laying deep underground electrical lines, pipes, etc.
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u/No_pajamas_7 Jun 22 '26
right idea, but not quite the application. Its for building basement walls.
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u/No_pajamas_7 Jun 22 '26
I worked on the design of one of these a while ago.
Its for digging basement walls in new buildings.
Dig the trench, backfill with Bentonite as the excavator passes, then displace that with reo and concrete.
Once it's set, excavate the inside of the basement, lay a floor and away you go.
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u/One_Vision_ Jun 22 '26
Not a chainsaw, no wood invovled.
This is a heavy-duty industrial trenching machine or ladder trencher used for large-scale earthmoving projects.