"Nigel M" wrote in message
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In uk.rec.gardening, Franz Heymann wrote:

I find it impossible to visualise a *chain* saw which looks like an
electric *carving knife*, since I have never seen a carving knife
with a chain.

I don't know is this was meant to be serious or not.

I was being quite serious.

Imagine a large
electric carving knife, with a 10" blade. The handle is on the top
at
the rear. Now replace the blades with a chain bar.

Elactric carving knives do not usually have handles at the top of the
rear, and they don't have "blades". They have a solitary blade.

Why don't you just describe it as a mini chain saw with a transverse
handle?

I used to have a small, light chain saw. The chain had a habit of
coming off in use. When the damn thing came flying past my ear and
nicked a piece off it, I decided that it was perhaps not a good thing
to go on using it, so I threw it away.

Franz.