[TheForge] vibration

[peter fels & phoebe palmer]

I'm eagerly tuned in for the

Rube Goldberg
Memorial Grout Pump !


On 10/28/2010 5:02 PM, Mike Spencer wrote:
>> If you look at the hands of someone who spends a lot of time running
>> chain saws, they're almost always chronically swollen.
> Here in Nova Scotia, a generation ago, every rural person who wasn't a
> fisherman was (at least a part time) woodsman. [1] A commonplace
> affliction was "whitefinger", viz. fingers that go numb and turn white
> in the cold wayyy sooner that healthy fingers do.
>
> They attributed it to the vibration from chain saws that were eagerly
> adopted in the 50s.  Recent models have various sorts of vibration
> dampers but before, say, the early 80s, no such thing.
>
> Update: The project prep is done.  Next step is the Rube Goldberg
> Memorial Grout Pump.  Stay tuned. :-)
>
> - Mike
>
> [1] Okay, okay.  Woodsperson.  Many Old Timers recounted him on one
>      end of the Swede saw and her on the other, junking [2] up the
>      winter's firewood.  Family that saws together stays together. But
>      not so many women actually worked in the woods.
>
> [2] What a New Englander would call a bolt (of firewood) is here
>      called a junk.
>