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Dropped $310 on a gas pole saw for storm cleanup in Fayetteville and it paid for itself in one weekend
I picked up a gas pole saw about eight months ago after a nasty ice storm rolled through Fayetteville and left half my calls as downed limbs hanging over driveways and power lines. I had been climbing and hand-sawing everything up to that point, which was just wrecking my shoulder and slowing me down to a crawl. The thing ran me around $310 with the extension and a spare chain, and I genuinely wasn't sure I needed to spend that money on a tool I'd only use a few times a year. First job after the storm, a big water oak had dropped limbs hanging 25 feet up over a customer's fence, and I had the whole thing down and chipped in under two hours. Before that saw, that would have been a full afternoon of climbing, rigging, and swearing. I've used it on maybe 30 jobs since, and it's saved me from getting up in questionable trees just to take off small stuff. My one gripe is it's heavy on the arms after a while, and you have to keep the chain sharp or it just bogs down. Curious what you all reach for on storm calls when the wood is up high but too small to justify a climb?
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tarab548d ago
Hate that shoulder-killing climb grind, been there with hand saws on storm calls and it wears you down fast. Good on you for finding something that cuts the time and saves your body, that's money well spent no matter how you slice it.
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