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Just imagine a bare motor mounted sideways in a tubular steel frame. Two handles on each side. Output power is connected to a small gear that spins a high-speed, high-strength saw chain running over a four or five foot bar. The whole apparatus is started by a removable starter. Once the thing is warmed up nicely, two guys on either side hoist it, throttle it way up and plunge the bar into a log laying on its side. If the RPMs are up there steady, it will literally cut through the log like a hot knife through butter. It's a pretty exciting thing to see the wood chips fly while flames shoot out a really short exhaust system. The operators always place an upright chain-link fence section in front of the saw just in case the saw chain breaks. The whole spectacle is a real crowd pleaser.