It’s one thing to own a chainsaw. It’s another to use a chainsaw for the first time and brace yourself to saw off a thick bough as the sweat flies from your brow and you set your manly jaw against the vibration and the weight. But it’s only when your chain has been dislodged and you have dismantled your chainsaw and reattached the chain by hand and put the whole thing back together and successfully started it again – only then will you be a man, my son.
