Chain saw on a pole
As the saying goes, when your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail. A corallary: when your new tool is a chainsaw, your property is about to lose 50% of its biomass.
The Remington Pole Saw Wizard is a small but mighty electric chain saw that can be attached to a telescoping pole to give you an 8-foot reach. Off the pole, it chewed through the iron-hide bamboo growing rampant along the perimeter of our house. On the pole, it made short work of the ugly twigs fractaling off the branches my olive trees. (I hate those olive trees. I tried to cure some olives a while back, but the olives were loaded with worms. Maybe I'll chop them down.) $100 at Ace Hardware
Comments
Um...this kinda looks like an emergency room visit on a stick.
I remember working on my grandfather's farm and sawing wood with a table saw the size of a small car...powered by a Model A tractor and a belt. I'm surprised I still have my arms.
Posted by: Alan Graham | May 30, 2006 2:32 PM
My dad told me a story about how, as a kid of 10 or 12, he climbed a tree to do some pruning for his uncle. His uncle then started up a chainsaw and hoisted it (using a rope slung over a branch above my father's head) so that my dad could cut a branch off. There were no chain brakes or any other wimpy safety devices back then. It amazes me that any of us survived our childhood, or even made it to this earth, considering our previous generations' casual acceptance of incredibly dangerous things/behaviour.
Anyway, here's a safer chainsaw from B&D (no, not bondage and discipline!):
http://www.blackanddecker.com/ProductGuide/Product-Details.aspx?ProductID=9867
Posted by: Rob McCleave | June 1, 2006 9:27 AM
I have a friend who is tree surgeon. He has a saying-- Make your living holding a chainie, die holding a chainie.
And *he* has special boots and trousers filled with miles of kevlar thread. And furthermore, he gets young tree surgeons to hold chainsaws now!
Beware the chainsaw. It is not your friend!
Posted by: simon | June 12, 2006 2:09 PM