ALLAGASH, Maine — Left-handed saws, two-man saws that look like they have removed a few limbs and just about every brand name you can be seen a the Antique Chainsaw Museum in Allagash.
Louis Pelletier began collecting them forty years ago. Now he's got about 400 saws and the stories that go with each one.
"Here's one I sold," he told NEWSCENTER Maine. "It's still got my sticker right on it."
Pelletier worked in the woods as a young man and started selling saws and supplies out of his home shop.
Soon, he was a dealer and occasionally saw saws that he had to have.
"I was pretty much done with collecting and then I discovered E-Bay," mused the life-long Moosetowner.
He points out that saws were somewhat regional. If a dealer popped up in an area, just about everybody used that brand of saw.
E-Bay enabled him to collect saws from all over.
So many, that he had to rebuild his museum, which is located on the main road into Allagash.
Louis and his son Louis Jr. run Allagash Wood Products which makes quality Adirondack chairs, picnic tables and a number of value-added products from the forests of the Allagash region.