Something happened this morning to remind me about Charlie Crisp. He started the business in Oamaru called 'Concrete Products', which specialised in concrete water tanks and concrete fence posts.
Charlie won a contract to cut posts out of the forest as he had set up a timber treatment plant. Post cutting was hard workand those old chainsaws were unreliable, heavy and were 'unrefined' (for a better word).
I remember calling at the block they were cutting to find him with a young Doug Stanaway cross cutting the last of a trailer load of posts. Charie was operating the chainsaw, and Doug was pouring oil on the bar. The oiler had broken down (or the orifice had blocked).
Anyone these days who knows how to operate a chainsaw would smile at this as they nowadays have automatic oilers and filters, making them very reliable.
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