I heard that some guy got angry at a bartender.

So the guy got his chain saw and carved up the bar.

Apparently the customers got angry because the bar was then closed a couple of days.

Happened in Chibougamau. Or was it in Matagami? Kootenay? Moose factory?

My son bought a house in Ohio that is located on 5 wooded acres. Many of the trees had huge vines growing from them.

My son and his father-in-law used a chain saw to cut down many of those vines, piling them in an area that was out of the way in the woods.

Next day my son and his FIL both broke out in a horrid red rash. Turns out that the vines were POISON IVY.

There was one enterprising indivdual going through a nasty divorce who cut the house in half with a chain saw, he also might have been from one of the aforementioned locations!

I saw a chain once. Does that count?

I too learned the hard way about cutting vines with a chain saw. I bought a wooded lot and bought a chain saw and went at it cutting down trees, vines shrubs you name it. I was covered with poison ivy rash. It makes me itch just thinking about it.

The funniest thing I have seen with a chain saw was where a boy had a friend spend the night and they watched the Chain Saw Massacre late into the night. The father went in the living room while they were watching it and video taped them scared out of their mind while watching it. The next morning the wife went into the bedroom with the video camera rolling and in came the father with his chainsaw, the boys were asleep and the father started up the saw and revved it up. Those boys jumped out of bed so fast they did'nt know what to think. Funniest home video, I laughed out loud .

We were lumberjackin' in northern Maine one year. This guy with us was cuttin' a tree down, the chain bound up and kicked back on him, going deep into his thigh... It was clean, so it didn't bleed too much, but we could see clean to the bone!!! He sat on the tailgate of the truck, as we hauled his sorry ass out of the woods. As cool as could be, he fired up a cigar. I thought " wow, he's mighty cool about this." He was going into shock was what it was!!! Pretty funny from my vantage though!!!!

Well, it's not really a 'good' story, but it's true.

I live in south LA., and after hurricane katrina, chainsaw sales were up over 1,000 percent. Couple that with the fact that MAYBE 10 percent of the general pop knows how to actually use a chainsaw, and what you get is a chainsaw massacre of biblical proportions. A family member is an orthopedic surgeon and the stories he related to me are grotesque to say the least...limbs totally severered, or hanging by sinew, hundreds of serious lacerations into the bone, and even one unlucky individual who actually had the saw kick back onto his head going clear to his nose, no he did not survive.

FEMA has been have classes down here for months teaching the proper usage of chain saws as a result.

Moral of the story, if you can afford someone to operate a chainsaw for you...do it. The alternative sucks.

Tab

2 of my friends and I were cutting down a large elm tree. We thought we had the angle of the cut right until the tree fell on one of the other guy's truck.

this old Italian lumber jack was using a double blade axe for about 35 years & cutting 2 to 3 trees a day with it , a frend told him Joseppie, you needa chain saw, you cut 20 trees a day with it , you make lotsa money , so he went out & got a chain saw, forst day he didnt even cut one tree down ,mhe tells his buddy Angelo, this isnt good, & Angelo said let me see the chain saw, , he looks at it pulls the starter rope & it fires right up & he cuts down 3 trees in less than 5 minutes , , he said hey Joseppie nothing wrong with this saw, & Joseppies says hey what was all that noise.
Enjoy, Vince ( Joseppies great grandson )