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I've been dubious about this little gadget for a number of years, but I've recently changed my mind. A local who used to spend a lot of time in the Northwoods carried one to deal with blocked two-tracks etc. His "testimony" made me curious. It's pretty cheap (about $20 give or take) so I picked one up. Pretty neat little tool! Light. Very aggressive cutting dynamics. Pretty quick way to "buck up" firewood for an unplanned bivouac etc. (I got the one with handles.)

Any of the rest of you tried it?

PC

I think ya left out some info there friend!

O.K., Boots. I'll bite.

PC

I was just talking about a link or picture .... is this it?

http://www.pocketchainsaw.com/

Sorry, Boots. I'm a little slow. Yeah, that's it.

The only downside I see in this design is that it requires two hands. The instructions show how to hold the piece being cut with one's own body weight (i.e. stepping on the log) which should be raised off the ground with another piece of wood (so there's room for the saw to work). Actually, it works better than I would have thought. I cut some pretty tough, hard pieces of seasoned pin oak on our property

PC

My friends are clearing lanes to their archery stands. Just the other day one said he brings a 14' pole saw and one of those saws on two long ropes. He said if you can't reach a branch with the saw, you throw a rope over it, pull the saw up to it, grab both ropes and go back and forth to cut the branch. That's pretty neat.

That thing also looks safer than an axe or hatchet for a fellow on blood thinners. Their web site, however, is woefully short of information.

I don't know if anyone here could translate German for us (I think it's German), but here's a pretty good video showing how fast it cuts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERA8iEpiyJY

For fellers on blood thinners, or me, for that matter. I don't carry an ax in the woods because one slip and you can be in real trouble. Now, I have a collapsible bow saw with blade storage in the handle. It folds up into a two foot stick about an inch and a quarter by three quarters and is nothing to pack. I'm far less likely to hurt myself, and potential injuries would be far less severe. The military has been using an anti clotting agent called Celox for a couple years and it's available to the public now. If I were on thinners (I may buy some anyway) I'd pack some.