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This really is off topic but, about a year ago we bought a 10" electric chain saw on special from Aldi. Honestly at the time I didn't think I'd have much use for it and I didn't expect it to be very good quality for AU$140.00. Still my wife who is the gardener in our family was very enthusiastic about it, little did I know what she had planned.
This was just one such old tree on our property that she wanted "lopped" to a manageable height.
Now I have always been a bow saw person and figured given the "limited" need for heavy lopping that was all I needed. Hah! How wrong was I? It turns out the only thing holding back my wife's aspirations was that she didn't want to make too much work for me, god bless her.
The cuts pictured above would have taken me 10-15min each, the chainsaw took 5min for them all and very little effort from me. Not only that but with my wife's other favourite tool, an electric mulcher we mulched all the foliage an smaller branches while I cut the larger ones into 2' lengths easily disposed of into our organic waste collection.
My conclusion; small electric chain saws are the best thing since sliced bread and if this one breaks I'll definitely be replacing it with a better one.
This was just one such old tree on our property that she wanted "lopped" to a manageable height.
Now I have always been a bow saw person and figured given the "limited" need for heavy lopping that was all I needed. Hah! How wrong was I? It turns out the only thing holding back my wife's aspirations was that she didn't want to make too much work for me, god bless her.
The cuts pictured above would have taken me 10-15min each, the chainsaw took 5min for them all and very little effort from me. Not only that but with my wife's other favourite tool, an electric mulcher we mulched all the foliage an smaller branches while I cut the larger ones into 2' lengths easily disposed of into our organic waste collection.
My conclusion; small electric chain saws are the best thing since sliced bread and if this one breaks I'll definitely be replacing it with a better one.
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