The Insanely Gruesome Origins of the Chainsaw 

I had no idea this had a patreon.

Something we need to actually "advertise" as it were as our videos continue to get longer, this video notwithstanding, and more in depth and ad revenues in the general case decline a bit. :-) But yep, we have one. :-) -Daven

I had no idea as well and I've been watching the Whistler-Verse for quite some time. Thanks for letting us know!

Same. Sorry to say, now that I found out, I’m out of here until the next video.

Same here. Still, my jaw kept dropping further and further during the whole video. That was ... gruesome.

Yeah, I was thinking amputations, not this!

as soon as i found out i looked over at a chainsaw nearby and said in my head: oh....yeah i can see that, freaking old medicine was crazy.

WTF lol

take it from a 2d george carlin view...it looks vaguely penis shaped from the side....and where do they usually go? yeah.

Your idea would have been much better

Bernhard Heine thought the same as you. I like how he kept improving the procedure to minimize collateral damage. Sounds like a very conscientious man.

I've heard this story before, and I remember it now but my brain suppressed it for a while..

As a Canadian,.I've seen a few comments of Americans in denial of their healthcare situation. Some have even gone as far as to say that the long wait times are somehow worse.. at least our hospitals are actually palatable, and won't try to break you over every possible.

@@jwalster9412and as if the American healthcare system doesn’t have long wait times too lol. It can take 3-9 months to see a specialist, hours and hours at the emergency room unless you’re bleeding out of your eyeballs, etc

Even if you’re bleeding out of your eyeballs, you’ll wait six hours at an ER. My dad’s appendix burst and he went septic while waiting in the goddamn waiting room and no matter how many times we begged them to take him into emergency surgery, they told us he had to wait cuz they “couldn’t see anything wrong physically” even tho he turned literally grey, passed out, and even started having muscle seizing. They called security on us cuz we were all huddled around him sobbing cuz we were watching him die. He sat for six hours with bile flooding his system. Once the surgeon actually got to him, they told us there’s a possibility he wouldn’t live. The fact that he did live is completely against medical knowledge. He should not have. This was in one of the wealthiest counties in the entire United States.

Yet, half of the population will defend it, to the death.

Mostly what I was going to say. When I was looking into becoming an MD, a not very old book at the time said average pay was around $100k/yr. I think it is now around $160k/yr, considering decades of inflation, that's not much of an increase and plainly even 10x that much wouldn't account for cost of medical treatment now which could cost that much in a day in some cases. Considering the level of education required, I think they deserve a raise after we change to public medicine. I'm not sure that venture capitalists specifically are to blame, but I'd guess investors in general--megacorp hospitals traded in stock markets and maybe upper level management. I don't know for certain, but my guess is Reagan era deregulation opened the floodgates for profiting off other people's work and human suffering since that seems to be around the time things got truly ridiculous. Sadly, I also have to partly blame a close family member who I think was nationally known as The Hatchet Lady, or something like that. Her job was to make medical businesses more "efficient," meaning fire doctors and nurses, cut corners, and a laundry list of things to maximize profits for investors by harming everyone else. What seems sad on a personal level is she didn't seem like a monster to me, but was willing to be one for the right price. Thanks to efficiency we can now die in the ER waiting room because there aren't enough doctors to treat everyone in a timely manner. Aunty probably wouldn't have had the job if medicine hadn't become such a lucrative investment opportunity and I imagine quite a few people would have lived longer and better.

Patients* although parents wouldn't surprise me in some instances

@@owennoad-watson2820 hahahaha shit.

Yep. Animals were worth something, people weren't. Still the case even today. We euthanase our animals when they are too ill to continue living, yet we force people to exist. We prevent livestock that can not carry offspring to term and care for it from breeding, yet if a human is in the same position, bad luck. As a species, we are just a little bit deranged!

There's at least one documented incident of a women giving herself a C-section. Just one, though. Sort of like the doctor in Antarctica who removed his own appendix.

Doctors got paid a lot, while the farmers lived off of their animals, so it kinda makes sense.

They said I was mad when I told them we needed a new Stihl in the OR!

And today, we just use scissors.

You rang?

Nurse: "What!?" Fred Durst: "A chainsaw!"

When a simple, sharp, clean, axe will do? Why a wood chipper?

I always reference that. Especially if nerdy friends are disappointed they need a c section!

so.. folded? yeah that could obviously put a lot of strain on both the baby and mother.

when intrusive thoughts win

Probably because people had been using saws in tree cutting and woodworking for a thousand years before a saw was used in medicine?

Right, like seriously? I had to back it up to make sure I was hearing the dates right. I hate learning sometimes

Religious whackos still don't surprise me

1981?

43ersomthing years ago... sounds about right, they were doing all kinds of weird shit "medically" back then... for no reason.

The interview was 10 years ago. The mutilation of that woman was in the 80s.

Let us know how that goes

Interesting...and horrifying

I got in further but had to stop at about the story at 1830.

Except that the motion of the hand crank means that the saw will wiggle with the cranking...😬

That's just engines in general, even some fighters in WWII had that issue, such as the Hurricane and early Spitfire's

Honestly who got their face up in a beaver Butt and said mmmmm that would taste delicious in my cakes and crepes

Big anti-chainsaw conspiracy is tearing this nation apart. Probably masterminded by the big axe industrial complex.

I always double up when I'm cutting firewood...plugs and muffs. I'm usually doing it for several hours at a time and it doesn't just protect your hearing, it reduces fatigue. My hearing is already bad enough from being dumb when i was young, i have to protect what i have left lol.

@@scottclark7559 I'm with you on all that. I double up when I KNOW it's going to be loud and I've got a pair of foamies on my keyring at all times. I was shocked by that 36k accident statistic. It wouldn't surprise me if 95% is just imputed hearing loss, most of the rest back injuries and a tiny sliver what we would imagine as "chainsaw injuries". Most chainsaws run on gasoline and are mostly used to cut up trees --- that would make them the targets of at least two lunatic factions.

where do you think they got the idea, the retrofuturism is inspired by 1950s United States

Interesting, I did not know that. That could be the next video, 10 things people always get wrong.

Just like Jesus wasn't christian: they both founded the system that eventually became what would follow

They can't afford ice, they have to work two more life times to pay off their infant checkups...

Same man...can't take any more of it... I have watched real human dissections on RU-vid...but somehow I can't watch this...