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Redwood Carving, Avenue of the Giants
Northern California
Face by Ken Kaiser,
1961
This Model 6, manufactured
by the
Mall Tool Company of Chicago in 1949. It has a 36 inch bar, although
bars of other lengths were available. Since you couldn't plunge cut
with the tip of the
bar with the handle for the second man attached, you needed a bar as
least as long as the tree was wide. With many saws of this early type,
the bar could be set to cut either horizontally or vertically, but not
at an angle. One way to cut an undercut was to saw two horizontal cuts,
then chip out the wood between with the adze side of a Pulaski tool, or
else make one horizontal cut and chop the rest with an ax. (Thanks to
R.D. Faulkner Corp.) Woodcarver and stuff maker, RL Blair, renowed for carving many of the wooden Disney characters in Disney parks around the world, cut his teeth on old growth Western Red Cedar in Washington state. In Tok, Washington, he remembers seeing a wood carved Indian possibly carved with a two man mall saw. "It was a rough carve and the cuts were square, only tool that could have done that was the 2 man saw." He recalls the sighting was in the late 1940's.
Kentuckian, Carroll D. Sanders, a talented chainsaw performance artist said about the two man mall; "I once had a picture of some carvers in Tennessee carving out a cigar store indian with a two man Mall chainsaw. They roughed it out by running the bar over it at different angles then carved it with an axe, an adzs, and a chisel, I hate to think of all the work that went into those. I do remember the mens names were the Donnaldson Brothers I do not know anymore and the picture was lost over time."
16' Redwood Bear by Ken Kaiser 1961
Trees of Mystery
Northern California
1957-1959
McCulloch Chainsaw Model 55
30 lbs. with chain
Ray
Murphy,"Don't call me carver, I'm a chainsaw artist" aka The Wild
Mountain Man, carves the English Alphabet in a #2 pencil. 
Lois
Hollinsgworths' Bird
Form, in Western Red Cedar. Lois has
been
woodcarving since the 1960's.
Susan
Miller's bird in
Western Red Cedar...A view from her window. She too has been
carving since the early 60's
Duke
Moore and his St. Francis.
Sea Gulch, OR. in the late '70'S early '80'S.
Gulch Couple
Mel
Byrds Redwood Carving,
1970's. Phillipsville, California, The Saw Blade
First book
on chainsaw
carving Fun and Profitable Chainsaw
Carving by William Westenhaver and Ron Hovde, also known as
Witco. Published January 1, 1978 by Westho Publishing Company,
Mt. Vernon, Washington
Larger than lifesize tiki by
Witco, 1970's. Don Quioxte by Witco. 6' tall by 4' wide.
Judy McVay,
Early
1980's. Doing her thing, chainsawing murals, full time since 1974.
Larry
Jensen, chainasw carver from Brainerd,
Minnesota, featured on the cover of Outdoor Highlights, October 2,
1989. In Memory of Larry Jensen 1954-1996
Jerry
Bebee from Idaho, works on a block of cedar at the home and garden show
in Coeur d' Alene, Idaho. "I think it's something you're born with" the
51 year old former logger said of his talents. From The Spokesman
Review, 1990
Gary
Patterson,
Missouri
Carver. In the early 1990's.
Program
Cover, East Coast Nationals, Lexington, Kentucky
A
rendition of Da Vininci's "The Last Supper" carved in 4 days at The
Northern California Chainsaw Championships in 1999. By Conrad
Sandoval.
CRAZY...
Freestyle Motorcycle Jumper
over 40 running chainsaws
Reno, Neveda 2001
Program
Cover, East Coast Nationals, Lexington, Kentucky
Countries represented at the Ridgway Rendezvous, Pennsylvania
St. Jean Port Joli, Quebec,
Canada...International Wood Carving Symposiusm since 1994
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