Wayne Sutton’s earliest memory of a chainsaw was when he was 5 or 6-years-old. Sutton had accompanied his father into the woods on a timber-cutting job when his father asked him to hold the handles of a chainsaw as he carved up a felled tree.
“The vibration felt like it was shocking me,” Sutton said.
While it didn’t actually shock him, the experience did spark in Sutton a lifelong curiosity and love of chainsaws nurtured by his early exposure to them. “Dad was a timber cutter. …. I was on my own during the day and I played with chainsaws,” he said…