Norwegian Wood: Chopping, Stacking, and Drying Wood the Scandinavian Way by Lars Mytting

Author:Lars Mytting [Mytting, Lars]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 2015-10-05T22:00:00+00:00

JoBu treated itself to a full-color advertisement for the new Tiger model in the January 1962 issue of Skogeieren.

The highly competitive atmosphere led to rapid advances in the technology. Busk and Johnsen maintained their pace as front-runners, and their legendary JoBu Junior model is now acknowledged as the first genuinely practical one-man saw. It weighed more than twenty-two pounds (ten kilograms) and was reckoned the best in the world in its weight class. The factory turned out more than forty thousand of these Junior saws.

On the early chain saws the carburetor had to be rotated manually when the saw was turned sideways for felling, until the appearance of the JoBu Tiger in 1960. For the first time, here was a saw that worked in whatever position it was held in. In keeping with the utilitarian spirit of the first postwar decade, the JoBu saw could be put to other uses, and among the extras available were an earth drill and a propeller mounted on a stem that meant the saws could double as outboard motors.

The success of JoBu was a Norwegian business fairy tale, and for a while the company was the world’s largest producer of chain saws. It remained the market leader for several decades in Norway, and as recently as 1977 still had 250 sales outlets across the country. The first factory was in Oslo, before the company moved to Drøbak. Like Jonsered and Husqvarna, JoBu was soon bought up by Electrolux. In total there were thirty wholly Norwegian-made JoBu models. Some of the saws produced in the 1980s were indistinguishable from Jonsered and Husqvarna machines. The last genuinely Norwegian model appeared in 1980, and the factory in Drøbak finally closed down in 1983. Original JoBu saws are now collectors’ items.

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