Big Chainsaw – Burnie

Burnie, Tasmania, Australia

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Checked by Project Big Things · Aug 2026

This Big Thing is recorded as still being here.

A giant chainsaw mounted at North West Mowers in Burnie.

Before you stop

Park at the attraction entrance rather than at the landmark itself.

Venue entrance

Private to your Passport.

PLAN YOUR VISIT

Recommended arrival available

Attraction entrance

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Big Chainsaw – Burnie

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Site-level location · 41.0489° S, 145.9029° E

FIELD GUIDE

The story

A giant chainsaw on the North Terrace at Burnie advertises a small-engine business, and it has been doing so for a while.

North West Mowers has been locally owned and operated for the past thirty years, selling, servicing and repairing outdoor power equipment – the unglamorous trade of keeping mowers, blowers, trimmers and chainsaws running for a whole district. Burnie City Council currently promotes the chainsaw as one of the city's Big Things and identifies it with the business.

The subject is well judged for the coast. North-west Tasmania is forestry and farming country where a chainsaw is genuinely standard equipment rather than an occasional purchase, and the object advertises the shop's most serious product line rather than its most common one.

It also belongs to a pattern worth noticing across this catalogue. Tasmania has an unusually high density of oversized objects for its population, and Burnie City Council has been unusually active in cataloguing them – the same guide carries the truffle dog at Deloraine, the Big Penguin, the Big Apple at Spreyton and the Ashgrove cows. A regional council maintaining a Big Things list is rare and quietly valuable, because it is the only reason several of those records have any official confirmation at all.

A chainsaw is also a slightly alarming thing to enlarge. Scaled up, the chain and bar become unmistakably what they are, which is more than can be said for a giant mower.

No one recorded the name of whoever built it, the measurements and any date at all.

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PRACTICAL

Plan your stop

WHAT TO EXPECT

Burnie City Council currently promotes the Big Chainsaw as one of the city’s Big Things and identifies it with North West Mowers on North Terrace. North West Mowers remains an active business at 25 North Terrace.

ACCESS

Visit via North West Mowers at 25 North Terrace, Burnie. The chainsaw is a rooftop/commercial-site landmark; navigate to the operating business rather than the object itself.

COMMUNITY

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WHAT'S NEXT

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TRANSPARENCY

Sources & research

Discover Burnie – Big Things

Burnie City Council · recorded 2026-08-22

Current official council Big Things guide.

Government

North West Mowers official site

North West Mowers · recorded 2026-08-22

Current operator confirms active business at 25 North Terrace.

Official

What we're still checking

Open-licence image search completed 24 August 2026. No defensible reusable image with file-level commercial-use provenance was verified in the completed Commons, government/open-licence and archival/open-collection sweep.

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