one handed chainsaw usage

[Paul Barton]

I used to use some long handled loppers for tips like that. I felt it was not only safer, but gave a cleaner cut on the branch so better for the tree.

[ben lightfoot]

Do we get to see the close up of the pruning cut?

[Perkins]

wot flat tops?

 

all those stub cuts on the right

[Matt Butler]

So it's an Ash tree, the tie in point looks to be somewhere between 3 and 4 inches, the limb in his left hand is about 2 inches and he's standing on a side branch which is about 1/2inch diameter. My concern would be something snapping during the cut, you follow through with the saw and hey presto you're in a mess. No second anchor point. Potential injury. There are safer and easier ways of making that cut.

 

Don't want to change the subject but what are you actually doing here?

A crown reduction?

If so, what's happening to the right of the picture with all those flat tops?

If not, why take such little pieces free-falled with an 020 when you could handle entire branches off with a silky? (that's a handsaw btw)

Most of that tree would come down with a handsaw, and climbing would be easier without the chainsaw hanging off your belt.

 

 

Doing a crown reduction, but a heavy one. So I couldn't really chose the best growth points as she wanted as much off as poss. In fact when I'd finished she wanted another 3 ft off, which I wouldn't do.

 

Anyway ur not suggesting that it could be taken down with a silky are u?

[Matt Butler]

No because a silky would have done the job as well.

 

 

Maybe, but they are the physical entombment of slowness, extra effort, and bordom, all squeezed into a handsaws.

[josharb87]

So it's an Ash tree, the tie in point looks to be somewhere between 3 and 4 inches, the limb in his left hand is about 2 inches and he's standing on a side branch which is about 1/2inch diameter. My concern would be something snapping during the cut, you follow through with the saw and hey presto you're in a mess. No second anchor point. Potential injury. There are safer and easier ways of making that cut.

 

Don't want to change the subject but what are you actually doing here?

A crown reduction?

If so, what's happening to the right of the picture with all those flat tops?

If not, why take such little pieces free-falled with an 020 when you could handle entire branches off with a silky? (that's a handsaw btw)

Most of that tree would come down with a handsaw, and climbing would be easier without the chainsaw hanging off your belt.

 

 

Fiver says theres atleast 5 saw scuffs on branches near the 'pruning' points you've attempted

[Mark Bolam]

Perfectly acceptable if you loike ragged pruning cuts and want to be out of the game by the time you are 30 with buggered joints.

[Andy Collins]

Maybe, but they are the physical entombment of slowness, extra effort, and bordom, all squeezed into a handsaws.

 

Oh and you can work in peace and quiet, dont have to wear chainsaw trousers, make a neater job and be just as quick as someone with a chainsaw (on that little tree anyway) So I dont see that they are slower than a chainsaw, the effort well they weigh less than a chainsaw, boredom? Thats down to attitude I'm afraid. Perhaps time spent honing skills and attitude to the job would be time well spent?

[Le Sanglier]

Maybe, but they are the physical entombment of slowness, extra effort, and bordom, all squeezed into a handsaws.

 

I think you mean embodiment but I agree anyway.

[skyhuck]

I'm not sure a hand saw is better for your joints, all that pushing and shoving can't be good.

 

As for the cuts being poor, maybe if you usually use a hand saw then your cuts will be poor with an 020.

 

I never use a hand saw and do ALL my cuts with my 020, I find I can do good cuts Even on very small stuff.

 

I'm not saying its a good idea, its just the way I have always worked.