Wright Power Saw & Tool Corporation had a different idea for chain saws. The saws at the time were heavy awkward and the chain design was prone to kickback. Their first product in 1947 was a pneumatic-powered reciprocating saw designed primarily for underwater demolition, marine dock building, and military applications, but was soon adopted for logging. Tapping into the commercial logging and farming boom of the 1950s, Wright adapted its reciprocating technology to gas engine powered units. Initially the reciprocating action was directly worked from the crankshaft with its own connecting rod, no clutch! Although the machine was refined over the years, it always cut slower than a comparable chain saw and by the 1960s, they had moved on to a conventional chain arrangement and the manufacture was contracted out to Poulan. They went out of business in the 1970s.
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