Hi.
I'm kinda what you'd call an amateur chainsaw geek. I have several, all are quite new and high quality. They are big, though. The smallest has an 18" bar.
I needed to cut out a clearance along a length of farm fence where a grove of scrub trees and woody weeds had encroached right up against the fence. Distance was about 100-feet. Being over twenty feet high, and dense as a jungle, it was impossible to attempt walking inside the fence. Hell, I couldn't even see thru it.
So I really splurged and spent as much money as a big saw on a little 12" professional arborist top handle saw that weighs just seven pounds. I had to go to my saw dealer cuz the big box stores don't carry them and won't even order one. I like my saw shop better anyway.
The saw place has had my business a lot before, so they sorta overlooked the "Only for Professional Arborists" rule. Damn, this little thing cost as much as my biggest pro-grade saw.
But MAN, it was worth every single penny. I had to work from on my knees holding back weed schmoo from 1/4"~3/4" thick while holding that little top handle with my other hand, cutting right down parallel with and to the ground. There were a lot of blackberry vines entwined in there, too. Pulled and manhandled all that schmoo away. Then I had to stand and stoop and cut stuff from 2"~5" while again in awkward positions. I could not have done all that with my big saws.
Yeah, those pro tree feller types way up there in those treetops all own these little suckers, and now I understand why. One handed cutting with ease while my other hand was busy with other stuff.
Worth
Every
Penny
I'm kinda what you'd call an amateur chainsaw geek. I have several, all are quite new and high quality. They are big, though. The smallest has an 18" bar.
I needed to cut out a clearance along a length of farm fence where a grove of scrub trees and woody weeds had encroached right up against the fence. Distance was about 100-feet. Being over twenty feet high, and dense as a jungle, it was impossible to attempt walking inside the fence. Hell, I couldn't even see thru it.
So I really splurged and spent as much money as a big saw on a little 12" professional arborist top handle saw that weighs just seven pounds. I had to go to my saw dealer cuz the big box stores don't carry them and won't even order one. I like my saw shop better anyway.
The saw place has had my business a lot before, so they sorta overlooked the "Only for Professional Arborists" rule. Damn, this little thing cost as much as my biggest pro-grade saw.
But MAN, it was worth every single penny. I had to work from on my knees holding back weed schmoo from 1/4"~3/4" thick while holding that little top handle with my other hand, cutting right down parallel with and to the ground. There were a lot of blackberry vines entwined in there, too. Pulled and manhandled all that schmoo away. Then I had to stand and stoop and cut stuff from 2"~5" while again in awkward positions. I could not have done all that with my big saws.
Yeah, those pro tree feller types way up there in those treetops all own these little suckers, and now I understand why. One handed cutting with ease while my other hand was busy with other stuff.
Worth
Every
Penny
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