Looking for ideas: how to carry a chainsaw on your back?

[ccharlie]

I've got a Stihl MSA 160 electric chainsaw and I'd like to find a way to carry it on my back. My logic is that it would be great to be able to carry the saw, a spare battery, toolkit, thermos and other bits of kits in a bag to site. I wish to do so as I've got to walk with crutches after breaking my back years ago and carrying a saw in one hand and using crutches is a bit of a clunky affair.

 

I've found a couple of images on Google of people using chunky rucksack frames to carry massive chainsaws but that's just way over the top. I'd much rather find something a bit like for climbing gear where a 3kg chainsaw can be clipped onto the back of a rucksack.

 

Any ideas?

[Steve Bullman]

something like a baby carrier could be easily adapted maybe

 

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[ccharlie]

btw, I was wondering about getting something like a Stihl Chainsaw bag (Stihl Chainsaw Bag) and tying/clipping it to an old disused rucksack but this would end up being such a bodge job!

[ccharlie]

something like a baby carrier could be easily adapted maybe

 

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Hmmm... cool idea! I'll have a look.

[Steve Bullman]

Hmmm... cool idea! I'll have a look.

the sort of thing that should be in abundance second hand I reckon

[sean]

Just out of interest, if you are walking to work with crutches what do you do once there? How do you work?

[Steve Bullman]

£20 and no bids yet

 

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[Aicchalmers]

If the bar's long enough often I use a regular bag (with the sheath on!) stick it through the bag straps at each side front or back and have everything else in the bag.

[biggarlogs]

I have a bag with harness I use for carrying roe deer back to truck.would do your job I think.can be got from shooting shops or maybe e bay.its a cross between a bag and rucksack

[ccharlie]

Just out of interest, if you are walking to work with crutches what do you do once there? How do you work?

Hi Sean,

 

I'm only just starting out in the chainsaw world and am hopefully off on my maintenance and cross cutting course in the next month or so. (Felling trees will be tackled once the trainers have seen what I can and can't do). But, for now, I'm just chopping up small bits of timber for our fire at home. We had about five ash trees recently felled as they were about to take out a phoneline; I want to get trained up and prepared for dealing with that timber, cutting it to appropriate length and storing it on the hill for a year or two. Getting my kit 500 metres up a hillside is one of the many things to be overcome!

 

I reckon I will do a lot on my knees. I've cunning ideas about setting up a line from a tree some distance behind me and to then walk to my work area and use the line to give me some extra support. I've used this technique with fishing, painting and shooting. It all comes down to the quality of the line and having a decent harness that supports and pulls in a useful and safe direction.

 

I'll let you know in a couple of months' time what I and my trainers have come up with as solutions for my situation!