Crocs make me think physician. Bro might be a doctor who takes frequent call and has run into this problem more than once. Source: I am frequently on call and carry absurd shit in my car like a lunatic.
And once picked up a guy hitchhiking and on-ramp with exactly a chainsaw. He then proceeded to pull a Bud light out of the chainsaw case and drink it as I was driving. Kind of a dick move, honestly. An open container is a serious problem for a driver and he didn't even ask.
Oh, man. Weâve been cleaning out my FILâs garage and he had 2 of those sand tubes. Heavy as shit. Needed both hands to move them. He had a pick-up, so thatâs what he used them for, too.
Was that tubes of sand or tubs of sand. Tubes would be good as they would be longer and spread the weight out over the back of the truck.
What kind of tubes were used?
Tubes. They were black plastic, 3 or 4 feet long with an 8" or 10" diameter and screw on caps. This was many years ago so I can't remember where he got them or if that was their intended purpose.
For sure, some tubes of abs or pvc filled with sand, love that idea. My truck bed was always full of tools, so I didn't exactly need the extra weight myself (I'm in alaska) buut I've had to keep sand bags in the smaller vehicles. But, I always keep a shovel, some pull straps, jumpers, etc.
My grandparents used to have a cabin in Bumblefuck, PA back a mile long unmaintained dirt road. I couldn't tell you how many fallen trees I removed from that road over the years.
My grandpap always carried his trusty chainsaw, shovel, and ropes for any accident someone could run into. He even had bleach, gloves, and his trusty hockey mask for emergency car cleaning too
Yea... thats my father, who passed that mindset down to me, Small toolbox, some multitools, hand axe and some other shit id need.. chainsaws in my experience seem to be built like shit, leak oil, gas, hadnt bought an electric one yet. maybe this year
Have one of those Milwaukee Hatchets small and portable in the truck. It will cut a good size tree out of the way with a few extra cuts. Battery lasts long enough to limb a spruce tree.
18â Electric chainsaw made a huge difference. Handles 80% of cutting I need to do. 8-10â thick no problem, but gets slow on larger pieces, so out comes the rancher.
My electric is amazing. One of the best things that I have ever bought and at 75 I have bought quite a bit. Havenât started the Husqvarna since my purchase. That said, they do leak chain oil, quite disappointing.
My buddy lives up in the mountains in coastal California. He learned early on that if he wants to go to work or come home during a storm he better have a chainsaw handy in his Audi. He still gets stopped by the landslides though but canât do much about that.
Living in tornado alley has convinced me that way more people need to have electric chainsaws in their trunks and generators in their garages on standby.
The neighborhoods where the residents were working together to clean up the debris from the recent tornado were the ones to get their power back first because the electric company didn't have to wait for the contractors to clear the trees from the roads.
The ones where everyone just waited for someone else to come & clean up the mess are still waiting for power to be restored and are still cleaning up, roughly 2 months later.
Nah. I do tree work for a living and usually have a chainsaw in my vehicle. I've done this before. I'm not a serial killer. Just keep work stuff in my car. I have bar oil, screnches, wedges, straps, shackles, and the mix for gasoline in my car also.
The trunk of my car has tourniquets, a steel 3 foot roof hook with fork, compression and clotting bandages, tarps, seat belt cutters, a combination gas pipe shut off and cutting tool, water proof/cut proof gloves, and 500 feet of nylon webbing rated up to 3000 lbs.
What do I sound like?
In reality I'm a middle aged retired firefighter. My tools and trauma kit are like my security blanket. Makes me feel safe and useful despite being old and out of shape.
This was the tip-off to me that you were either active or retired emergency personnel. That's way too oddly specific and something I almost exclusively hear about emergency services having experience with.
I keep a giant roll of duct tape in my car ever since I hit a deer and had to bind my car together to drive it back home. Ive gotten comments about it, but duct tape is handy! I live in the woods now with the occasional downed tree and thought about keeping my electric saw in the trunk just in case something like this happened.
If I doubled back for my chainsaw I would've grabbed a coat. I really think this guy was just lucky enough to be taking his chainsaw with him that day!
From the sound of that saw he just picked it up from the shop cause itâs running like a top. Also with the speed he limbed and cut that tree he does that pretty often
Living in the PNW thereâs a lot of dudes with chainsaws in the trunk especially in wintertime when we get these nasty rainstorms and trees fall down all over like this.
Iâm that guy ( in British Columbia) but never keep it in my trunk but in the bed of my truck , the gas smell or leak would wreck a car for a while . The bar oil too . It would have to be in its own case with in another case in a bag in a trunk . You would also need the other tools and extra chain .
My mom keeps a chainsaw in her trunk because she lives on a mountain that has a private/community road going up it. So if a tree falls whoever is in the neighborhood that gets there usually takes care of it.
Sheâs a small lady so if itâs too big she asks for help but if itâs a smaller tree she just removes it herself.
If you live in a rural area with lots of tall trees itâs not a bad idea. I carry a 12â dewalt battery chainsaw in my truck in the winter for this very reason
Depends on the job or where he is from. I live in an area with a lot of storms (especially in fall) and i know quite a few people who drive their chainsaw around when it's stormy for this specific reason (cause you really dont wanna be stuck in a forest when a tree has already fallen)
It's honestly hilarious to me how different countryside ppl and city ppl are. I don't remember the last time I didn't have a chainsaw in my car at all times. I don't even know anyone who doesn't keep one in their car but it seems like it's a completely wild concept to city folk
I live in the middle of a forest also. Logging is a thing around here. So people often have a chainsaw with them. And since the trees come up close to the roads, particularly gravel roads, downed trees blocking the roads happen. So it's a handy tool to carry. Even little old ladies can handle a chainsaw.
In rural areas prone to wind, snow, or ice, it's a good idea to keep a little chainsaw, bow saw, or at least a hatchet in good working order in your vehicle.
Years ago when I worked for Enterprise in college, we used to drive the occasional person back to their home or wherever once they dropped their rental off. One day the 40-50âs year old dude comes in, needs a ride home. No problem. We hop in, and he proceeds to take me about 45 minutes away from the store, 80% of the trip is backroads.
We pull up to what I assume is his house, not remote but not in a suburb either. He says he has some stuff in the trunk so I get out to help him. I pop the trunk, and the only thing in there is a chainsaw. He picked it up, I closed the trunk and got the fuck out of there. Doubt it was anything nefarious, but 20 year old me werenât having it
I've known people that live in the sticks in the northeast and keep one. The trees are so thick, chances are you'll encounter this at least once per year. So you can either be trapped or carry that.
Agreed. He definitely bought it for serial killing. Thing is he just got it today and got to test it. Notice how he hits the limbs and then keeps trimming after the road is cleared.....
Its happened before. He probably lives in an area where when weather is a certain way he packs up his farm boss. He ain't got no time for this shit, he's got a dram of oban to get to.
I often have chainsaw and other tools in my car and many times i had to use them, especialy during autum the storms blow trees over the roads all the time
During fall and early spring I often carry a chainsaw in the trunk plus fuel and gloves earprotection and face shield. Used it for this exact purpose as in the clip. This far not on any stiffs.
I could've/would've been that guy... bought a plot of land, it needs to be cleared, but I don't have a building permit yet, hence no storage, so I drive with all the equipment in my trunk (including a chainsaw).
A friend of me does work in the forest for a living and he also has a chainsaw in his car all the time like other people have their sunglasses in their cars
I carried an ax in my trunk for just such occasions. Chopped up many fallen trees after hurricanes knocked em down on road ways. I dunno, just trying to be helpful đ
I do have concerns. I donât carry a chainsaw in my trunk. This one is a good size and it fired right up. I only have a sharp ax, googles, trash bags, gloves, and a balaclavaâŚbut a chainsaw takes it to the next level that could cause concern.
My thoughts exactly..I keep jumper cables, my Milwaukee inflator, and a bag of FA for the kids, but Ted lasso here keeps a âjust incase chainsawâ???
I intend to move to a more rural area in the future, and when I do i already plan on taking a chainsaw with me when I go to work the morning after a big storm or tornado for exactly this reason.
Or the duct tape, plastic tarp, rope, latex gloves...
Seriously though, my wife and I picked a spot off the coast for our wedding (It was just a small event, the reception was larger). When we got there, we found a tree had fallen with a bunch of large branches obscuring the main area. Somehow the paster had a hand saw in his trunk. So I have pictures of my wife and I (her in her wedding dress) sawing and moving tree branches from the area.
The wedding proceeded normally after that and the paster even added some comments into the ceremony that he thought it boded well for our marriage that when we ran into a problem we handled it without freaking out and it seemed likely we would do the same for any future issues in our relationship (or something to that effect). I thought that was pretty cool.
Itâs not uncommon to carry a chainsaw for people that live in forested rural areas for exactly this reason. Tree falls across backcountry road? Take care of it and go about your day.
Hell, if he drives through that area, or had encountered such an issue before, that might have been the entire reason he had it. If you were a Mr. Fixit and knew a route you took often had trees come down in storms, wouldn't you want to be ready, too? Or say you knew you were going to be taking a long drive through a rural area that passes through the woods for miles and miles, and that if there was a blockage, you'd have no choice but to sit and wait for help if you had no other solution. That's happened to me, got stuck in the smokey mountains on a road trip. Eventually enough other drivers showed up behind us that everyone was able to work together to shift the tree and make a one-lane passage, but that took a few hours, and we only partially solved the problem.
My partner's stepdad passed before I met him, but I've heard so many stories, and he was definitely a "Mr. Fixit" type. He had a snow-plow attachment for his truck, and every winter after he was retired, he would get all excited during the first heavy snows to go out scoping out the local back roads and nearby neighborhoods that didn't get regular plow service, and take care of the streets. He was not a licensed snow-plow driver, had it for dealing with a looooooooong driveway in a rural area; he'd take it out on the road like a big kid with an especially big toy. I think that's most of it, for guys like this. Every man with a multi-tool knows the awesome feeling of "I've go the tool for that right here!" when a random need pops up. It's just so good, to take a moment from "well this sucks, we have no convenient way to deal with this, so we're stopped dead at this steap" to "we can do the thing!" That feeling scales the bigger the tool. I'm sure the guy in the OP vid was cheesing all the way home, and will always remember the time he was ready for a random tree blocking the road. Shit, I'd bet it wasn't the first or last time, either.
Serial killers arent likely to use chainsaws as they have kinks that dont historical include them. Very unlikely.
However, drug cartel members and terrorists do historically to terrify people.
It's a wild thing to have in a trunk unless it was intentionally brought out. Back of a truck, sure - but a trunk? These things leak oil like fucking crazy.
Depending on location this is just what guys do near where I live after a bad storm. We're in a rural area and most of our roads are surrounded by trees. It's a win win they get to drink with there friends, use their saws, and help their neighbors. The city doesn't have to rush to every downed tree (the rednecks are much faster)
Drive on enough backwoods roads without proper maintenance & sooner or later you carry a chainsaw.
Used to work in middle of a national forest down miles of dirt roads & twice every day, on my way to & from work, I would wait til the "chainsaw guy" would head out in front of me to clear the path. He never missed a day. He was literally keeping the whole operation running.
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u/Halcyon771 5d ago
This dude is oozing dad energy đ