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I think its bad ass...... ONLY if you make it out of rubber/platic/foam. why would you EVER need a working real chainsword?

Cryage wrote: why would you EVER need a working real chainsword?

If you have to ask, clearly you are ill-prepared for the Zombie Apocalypse.

Hunterindarkness wrote:

Cryage wrote: why would you EVER need a working real chainsword?

If you have to ask, clearly you are ill-prepared for the Zombie Apocalypse.

Using melee weapons that splash around blood and gore during a major outbreak event. Don't worry, I'm sure you will be fine.

You can get a replica but that's about it.

Well, face masks exist, don't they.


I think its a great idea. Just post some pics when you're done

Savageconvoy wrote:

Hunterindarkness wrote:

Cryage wrote: why would you EVER need a working real chainsword?

If you have to ask, clearly you are ill-prepared for the Zombie Apocalypse.

Using melee weapons that splash around blood and gore during a major outbreak event. Don't worry, I'm sure you will be fine.

I like how you think, you can join my zombie kill team if you like.

This...this is ending in amputation.

Chainsaws are a bad weapon for a zombie apoc anyway, too loud attracts more zombies.

Building a chain-sword though? Thats awesome, please post a video if/when you finish

Thanks, this is the funniest thread I have read in a while!

Well, I don't see this ending well for all the limbs involved

meh. as long as you wear your saftey goggles youll be fine. and the bonus to a working chainsword.... youll never have to think of a way to scare off those pesky door to door jehovahs witness assault teams.

thunder hammers would be tough... although i suppose a car battery and metal sledge hammer would be a good place to start... maybe wire in a tazer as well.

Well, I would get a small electric chainsaw, take it apart, and rebuild it from there.

I would build some safeguards that would prevent the chain from flying back and hitting your face. basically make it so the chain is only exposed in one direction like that video.


You probably want it to be battery operated(because no space marine runs around with an extension cord)

I just think it might end up being too heavy to use use one handed.

I've one handed a small electric chainsaw......it's unimpressive. It just kind of bounces off stuff and gets....well, dangerous. I'm only talking about small limbs on a tree here. A chainsaw works because you hold it down on whatever you are cutting. I imagine it would cut through soft tissue pretty easily though.

Ths will not end well, I forsee lose of life and limb.

The fluff chainsword has (for a chainsaw) honking huge, biting teeth that, backed up by a hefty swing, take a chunk out of the target before the whirling blade o' doom part gets into the picture.

A regular chainsaw has none of these, and thus isn't very good at hacking through anything... you get the blade revved up and spinning, and then slowly, firmly, push it through whatever it is you're cutting. This is only one reason why a chainsaw is a terrible anti-zombie weapon, unless you're only killing one zombie at a time. Horde-killers, they ain't.

True enough, you would get better milage out of a sword. Although Chainsaws will cut through unarmored flesh without much issue, bone will present a problem.

Of course Chainswords are just regular CCWs in 40k so I think things are represented ok.

I know you're not going to take this advice, but please, don't do it. You'll end up killing yourself, killing someone else, get arrested, or UNLEASH ALL KINDS OF AWESOME.

Make a fake one. Just saying.

Well if you only plan on trimming the bushes, i wouldnt expect you to be able to build an actual chainsword

lost_soul wrote:I am currently drawing up plans to build a working chain sword. I have been advised this is a very bad idea, but non the less its gonna happen. Any ideas on what I could use as a power source or building materials.

You want to re-invent the chain saw?

Have you reproduced yet? I would hate for your genitals to have gone to waste so you earn a living darwin award.

Actually my son is due in May. I dont plan on holding it to test it. Gonna do something like putting it in a vice and using somthing else to pull the trigger.

Thats the only way to get a Darwin Award. If you have already contributed to the genepool then you only get an Honorable Mention.

How about you build this thing outta PVC and foam rubber? Get a little whirly-gig electrical rotor in the hilt that pulls a length of, let's say, yarn around a spool that has the big, foam rubber teeth on it.

It'll look cool, like something made for a GWAR show, and not risk those and those around you with horrid lacerations, amputations and, possibly, death of the kind that people you don't even know will make jokes about you on YouTube.

I can already see this FOX reporter saying that miniature wargaming is something even more dangerous than brutal video games while standing near the place where 'the accident happened'.

Hunterindarkness wrote:

Cryage wrote: why would you EVER need a working real chainsword?

If you have to ask, clearly you are ill-prepared for the Zombie Apocalypse.

Don't check my shed out back

Crossbow, crowbar, hatchet, enough water, and my bike. Also I have a place out in middle of nowhere....

Yeah, I'm set. Sad thing is... I'm being truthful too.. lol

You're set... assuming that you're not one of the first infected, and simply keel over from a bad cough, die, and then rise in your brain-eating, shambling, er, glory a few hours later to join the horde.

Many people plan for Zombie Apocalypse events... most of these people don't plan on actually being a zombie, though. This is where pop-culture has failed us, as a species. We can't all be Survivors. In fact, most of us (statistically speaking) will be Infected.

This actually makes Zombie Preparations doubly important. Not that most of us will get to use our canned foods and shotguns caches, but it does leave something for the survivors, after they bludgeon us to final death with claw hammers and machetes.

ALL I want is someone to post a link to the news article/darwin award of the final conclusion of this adventure.
Cheers

Pretty sure you'll have to get it off Faces of Death XXVII or something... maybe an episode of "Ow! My Balls!" or something.

I think that:
This would be awesome.
This is a bad idea.

I hope you like hospital jello.

lost_soul wrote: Gonna do something like putting it in a vice and using somthing else to pull the trigger.

Oh, yeah. Best idea so far...