Halloween Chainsaw Arm Safety
To address common questions and concerns about chainsaw safety, this week we added a Chainsaw Safety article to eReplacementParts.com's articles section of our website. Chainsaws can be one of the most dangerous types of power tools when used incorrectly, but they also provide an opportunity to tackle another important chainsaw topic: Halloween.
The month of October actually serves as a great season for do-it-yourself-ers who also happen to be Halloween festival enthusiasts. Think about all of those homemade haunted houses and creative yard displays you've seen over the years, all the plywood, drill-driving, sawing, and gluing. Some communities even hold competitions between homeowners to judge whose ideas are the most creative.
All of this activity doesn't even include costumes, the most indispensable of Halloween celebration gear. Plenty of people make a project out of their costumes alone. How-to guides, tips, and ideas can be found most anywhere this time of year for just about any costume idea you can think of.
Take this "How to: Make a Chainsaw Arm" article on instructables.com, inspired by the chainsaw-armed Ash Williams of the Evil Dead and Army of Darkness movies.
Their article provides steps for imaginative zombie slayers to build their own (pretend) gore-apparatus out of simple materials like an empty orange juice container, a dowel, some wooden board, paint, and a bike chain. In light of chainsaw safety, we appreciate this kind of advice as opposed to trick-or-treaters wildly swinging actual chainsaws over their heads out of holiday and/or cinematic zeal. Other suggestions for chainsaw arms simply recommend adapting a toy chainsaw for the costume.
Some quick search engine searches will reveal ideas like wobbly walkways for trick-or-treaters, pvc pipe-stuffed bodies, creepy optical illusions, and even hydraulically-powered, corpse-ejecting coffins. Most of these projects will require a power tool or two.
Whatever your endeavor this October, eReplacementParts.com offers its tool and machine parts services to its customers, keeping those power tools running great during this or any other DIY season. If winning that costume or yard competition means that your power tools and machines are in good order, we hope you get first place.
