Choosing a chainsaw

[Oyure]

Hey,

A while ago I redacted a buying guide about chainsaws for french consumers and I've now translated it to english using an automated translator.
I'm not sure I'm completely satisfied with the result though as I'm not really familiar with the english terminology of chainsaws and I need to find products and brands that are more adapted to the UK market.

If someone would be willing to take a bit of time to help me with this, I would really appreciate it :)
Thanks for taking the time to read this post.

Oyure

[Stubby]

3 hours ago, Oyure said:

Hey,

A while ago I redacted a buying guide about chainsaws for french consumers and I've now translated it to english using an automated translator.
I'm not sure I'm completely satisfied with the result though as I'm not really familiar with the english terminology of chainsaws and I need to find products and brands that are more adapted to the UK market.

If someone would be willing to take a bit of time to help me with this, I would really appreciate it
Thanks for taking the time to read this post.

Oyure

Not quite sure what you want here . Is it the name , in English , of the component parts of the saw ? ie " the power head " , the " bar " the " chain" the " tensioner " the  " sprockets " etc or am I not understanding ? ? 

[Dan Maynard]

Could you post the guide as it is now for us to see if we can make head or tail of it?

[trigger_andy]

Whatever you do don’t buy French 🤣

[Oyure]

Thanks a lot for all your answers,

@Stubby the thing is I'm a native french speaker, I'm bilingual in english but I never studied the terminology of this field in english. All the research we made on chainsaws was in french and then we used an automated translator to get this article in english so I'm worried this translator didn't perfectly translate all technical terms.

@Dan Maynard here is the link https://buyingbetter.co.uk/best-chainsaw

[Stere]

Do you get paid to create such  content? 😏

 

 

 

[Dan Maynard]

Competitor chainsaws can exceed 25kg? More research needed.

 

I think you'll find the terminology you need on the English websites of the chainsaw companies and they'll be happy you are reading it.

 

https://m.stihl.co.uk/STIHL-Products/0100/Chainsaws-and-pole-pruners.aspx

https://www.husqvarna.com/uk/chainsaws/

etc

[Mick Dempsey]

Change thermal for petrol is your first job.

Dan is right, just copy what the anglophone websites write, but jiggle it about a bit to avoid plagiarism. 
 

Edited April 24, 2022 by Mick Dempsey

[Puffingbilly413]

On 19/04/2022 at 15:00, Oyure said:

Hey,

A while ago I redacted a buying guide about chainsaws for french consumers and I've now translated it to english using an automated translator.
I'm not sure I'm completely satisfied with the result though as I'm not really familiar with the english terminology of chainsaws and I need to find products and brands that are more adapted to the UK market.

If someone would be willing to take a bit of time to help me with this, I would really appreciate it
Thanks for taking the time to read this post.

Oyure

You really need to engage the services of a technical translator if you're serious about it. Automated translation programmes are still really bad (albeit much better than they used to be).

 

If you don't want to pay for someone to do that then the advice already given to borrow the relevant phraseology from chainsaw manufacturers' English websites is a good way to go.

 

Bon courage ...

[Oyure]

Ok thanks a lot everyone I will rework the article using those.

Thanks for the links too Dan !