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This tool worked GREAT. It cut branches easily while providing safety in terms of requiring that you squeeze both handles to initiate operation. It was very maneuverable, allowing me to easily select the branches I wanted to address. And as another commenter indicated, no kick back.

I’m sure I’ll end up with a chain saw in the near term, but for many of my needs, this tool does the trick with ease and safety.

Then again, I’m not a real man. I’m just a real woman who remodels my home, handles my own repairs, doesn’t depend on anybody to assist me with moving heavy items, and performs my own landscaping. I just don’t scratch my crotch and drink beer. And I like men. Go figure.

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So I’m at the hardware store looking at this versus real chainsaws. It seemed like a neat idea, but it seemed limited in what you could do with it versus a real chainsaw… until my mom chimed in about pruning a tree and I suddenly realized that I could actually trust my parents to use this gadget without me breaking out in a cold sweat.

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This thing works. There’s no danger of kickback even when I had to thrust this into the midst of tangled brush to lop, which I had to do a lot. It’s just lop after thoughtless lop, with none of the careful consideration that I had to exercise with a real chainsaw. Sure it’s limited, but it excels at the range of work its designed to do, which covers the majority of suburban users (and that’s a HUGE market).

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]]> by: Frobozz http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3125#comment-42718 Mon, 19 Jun 2006 09:08:38 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3125#comment-42718 I have one (I own a chainsaw, too). This thing handles smaller limbs a lot better than a chainsaw. Let's say a long limb with, oh, a four-inch diameter falls in your yard. It's a PITA to cut that up with a chainsaw...you're constantly either trying to prop up the end of the limb or you're worried about hitting the dirt with your chain. This handles that kind of job easily. It also makes extremely neat cuts. The jaws don't cut into the bark past the cut -- it's actually as neat, if not neater, than a chainsaw or a lopper. Finally, it's also very light. This is why it's better that it's electric. A gas-powered unit of this power would be too heavy to hold up and use in this sort of scissor action -- it's easy to use this thing held up over your head. Of course, that could have its down side if you don't watch/know what you're doing and get El Kabonged by a limb... I have one (I own a chainsaw, too). This thing handles smaller limbs a lot better than a chainsaw. Let’s say a long limb with, oh, a four-inch diameter falls in your yard. It’s a PITA to cut that up with a chainsaw…you’re constantly either trying to prop up the end of the limb or you’re worried about hitting the dirt with your chain. This handles that kind of job easily.

It also makes extremely neat cuts. The jaws don’t cut into the bark past the cut — it’s actually as neat, if not neater, than a chainsaw or a lopper.

Finally, it’s also very light. This is why it’s better that it’s electric. A gas-powered unit of this power would be too heavy to hold up and use in this sort of scissor action — it’s easy to use this thing held up over your head. Of course, that could have its down side if you don’t watch/know what you’re doing and get El Kabonged by a limb…

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]]> by: Walter E. Wallis http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3125#comment-32650 Sun, 04 Jun 2006 17:37:06 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3125#comment-32650 The primary function seems to be the elimination of the kickback that so often accompanies chainsawing small branches. The primary function seems to be the elimination of the kickback that so often accompanies chainsawing small branches.

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