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In 1944, while supervising World War II prisoners as they cut pulpwood in East Texas, Claude C. Poulan devised a way to overcome the shortcomings of the conventional chain saw. Power chain saws of that day required three men to buck a log - one on each end of the heavy saw and a third using a pry-pole to keep the chain from pinching. Working by night in his garage, the Monroe, Lousiana native, took an old truck fender and shaped it into an attachment he called a "bow guide." This ingenious device made it possible to eliminate the "pry-pole" operator. This not only revolutionized the forestry industry just in time for the booming post-war demands for more wood and wood products, it was the beginning of an industrial giant itself. Mr. Poulan, whose Poulan chain saw has become a household word in the power-tool industry, built and sold his first chain saw in Marshall, Texas, then moved to Shreveport, Lousiana in 1946 where he went into partnership with brothers Harry and Fletcher. Mr. Poulan sold his business 16 years later to Charles Beaird, and it became the Beaird-Poulan Saw Company. St. Louis based Emerson Electric Company bought the business in the late '70's and merged it with another company that had an interesting beginning -- Weed Eater, Inc.
