Imwe yematende ekutanga e "eless chain saw" inosanganisira cheni yezvibatanidza zvinotakura mazino esaha yakapihwa kuna Frederick L. Magaw wekuFlatlands, New York muna 1883, sezviri pachena nechinangwa chekugadzira mapuranga nekutambanudza cheni pakati pemadhiramu akaiswa.Patent yakazotevera inobatanidza furemu yegwara yakapihwa kuna Samuel J. Bens wekuSan Francisco muna Ndira 17, 1905, chinangwa chake chiri chekudonha giant redwoods.Yekutanga inotakurika chainsaw yakagadzirwa uye ine patented muna 1918 neCanada millwright James Shand.Pashure pokunge abvumira kodzero dzake kupera muna 1930, kugadzirwa kwake kwakagadziridzwazve neyakazova kambani yeGermany Festo muna 1933. Kambani yacho, yava kushanda seFestool, inogadzira maturusi emagetsi anotakurika.Vamwe vabatsiri vakakosha kune yemazuva ano chainsaw ndiJoseph Buford Cox naAndreas Stihl;iyo yekupedzisira ine patent uye yakagadzira cheni yemagetsi kuti ishandiswe panzvimbo dzebucking muna 1926 uye peturu-powered chainsaw muna 1929, uye yakatanga kambani yekuzvigadzira-zhinji.Muna 1927, Emil Lerp, muvambi weDolmar, akagadzira cheni yecheni yekutanga pasi rose ine peturu uye akaagadzira akawanda.

Hondo Yenyika II yakakanganisa kupihwa kweGerman cheni masaha kuNorth America, saka vagadziri vatsva vakamuka, kusanganisira Industrial Engineering Ltd (IEL) muna 1939, mutangiri wePioneer Saws Ltd uye chikamu cheOutboard Marine Corporation, mugadziri wekare wekugadzira masaha kuNorth. America.

Muna 1944, Claude Poulan aitarisira vasungwa veGermany vachicheka pulpwood muEast Texas.Poulan akashandisa fender yekare yerori ndokuigadzira kuita chidimbu chakakombama chinoshandiswa kutungamira cheni.Iyo "bow guide" zvino yakabvumira kuti chainsaw ishandiswe nemunhu mumwe chete.

McCulloch muNorth America akatanga kubudisa chainsaws muna 1948. Mienzaniso yepakutanga yaiva inorema, michina yevanhu vaviri ine mbariro refu.Kazhinji masaha airema zvekuti aiva nemavhiri akaita semasaha.Zvimwe zvipfeko zvakashandiswa mitsara inofambiswa kubva kune ine mavhiri simba unit kutyaira bar yekucheka.

Hondo Yenyika II yapera, kuvandudzwa kwealuminium nekugadzirwa kweinjini kwakarerutsa masaha echeni zvekuti munhu mumwe chete aigona kutakura.Mune dzimwe nzvimbo, vashandi vechainsaw uye skidder vakatsiviwa nevanotema buncher uye vanokohwa.

Saha dzinenge dzangotsiva masaha anoitwa nevanhu mumasango.Iwo akagadzirwa muhukuru hwakawanda, kubva kumasaha madiki emagetsi akagadzirirwa kushandiswa pamba nebindu, kusvika kune makuru "masaha emapuranga".Nhengo dzemainjiniya emauto dzinodzidziswa kushandisa masaha, sezvakaita vanodzima moto kurwisa moto wemusango uye kuburitsa moto muzvivako.

Matatu makuru emhando dzekurodza chainsaw anoshandiswa: handheld file, magetsi chainsaw, uye bar-yakaiswa.

Cheni yemagetsi yekutanga yakagadzirwa naStihl muna 1926. Masaha ane tambo akavepo kuti atengeserwe veruzhinji kubva kuma1960 zvichienda mberi, asi aya haana kumbobvira abudirira mune zvekutengeserana semhando yekare yegesi yemagetsi nekuda kwenzvimbo shoma, kutsamira pakuvapo kwe socket yemagetsi, pamwe nenjodzi yehutano nekuchengetedzeka kwekuswedera kweblade kune tambo.

Kwemakore akawanda ekutanga kwezana ramakore rechi21 peturu inofambiswa nemasaha yakaramba iri mhando yakajairika, asi vakatarisana nemakwikwi kubva kune cordless lithium battery powered chainsaws kubva mukupera kwa2010s zvichienda mberi.Kunyangwe mazhinji macheni asina tambo ari madiki uye akakodzera chete kucheka hedge uye kuvhiyiwa kwemuti, Husqvarna naStihl vakatanga kugadzira saizi yakazara masaha ekucheka matanda mukutanga kwa2020s.Battery powered chainsaws dzinofanira kupedzisira dzaona kuwedzera kwemusika muCalifornia nekuda kwezvirambidzo zvehurumende zvakarongwa kuti zvitange muna 2024 pamagetsi egasi egadheni.