Did You Know...?

Did you know... Andreas Stihl, a German mechanical engineer, patented the "Cutoff Chain Saw for Electric Power" in 1926. Stihl was born in 1896 and founded a company for steam boiler prefiring systems in Cannstatt near Stuttgart. He developed the first chain saw in the same year, 1926. Later, the first gasoline-powered chain saw was patented - the tree-felling machine (1929). These were the first successful patents for hand-held mobile chain saws designed for woodcutting. Andreas Stihl is most frequently credited as being the inventor of the mobile, motorised, chain saw - what we recognize as the modern chain saw today.