10-01-2013, 07:29 PM
The original use for the tool we now know as the chainsaw was a medical tool used in childbirth to widen a woman's pelvis if the baby's head was too big. Invented in the 1700s and originally hand powered, no one thought to use to cut trees until the 1920s.
Yes, just let that sink in. Chainsaw to the birth canal and pelvis. And no anesthetics existed at the time either. You felt it all....
Yes, just let that sink in. Chainsaw to the birth canal and pelvis. And no anesthetics existed at the time either. You felt it all....