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Joe_Cox_BioA BETTER WAY OF WOODCUTTING

Logger/inventor Joseph Buford Cox was chopping firewood one chilly autumn day in 1946 when he paused for a moment to examine curious activity in a tree stump. A timber-beetle larva, the size of a man's forefinger, was easily chewing its way through sound timber, going both across and with the wood grain at will. Joe was an experienced operator of the gas-powered saws used in those days, but the cutting chain was a problem. It required a lot of filing and maintenance time. "I spent several months looking for nature's answer to the problem," Joe recalled. "I found it in the larva of the timber beetle.

 

 

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Joe knew if he could duplicate the larva's alternating C-shaped jaws in steel, it just might catch on.
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He went to work in the basement shop of his Portland, Oregon home and came up with a revolutionary new saw chain. The first Cox Chipper Chain was produced and sold in November, 1947.
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The basic design of Joe's original chain is still widely used today and represents one of the biggest influences in the history of timber harvesting. (Source: Oregon Historical Society)

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