Chainsaws - advice please

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@rsvmark
and there is one in stock at my local B&Q....>>!

BigMonka

rsvmark said:

Axes: http://www.fiskars.co.uk/new-axes

X25 here. Some sort of funky ceramic metal head. Very light weight. Integral wedge in axe head to split rounds. 

Beware- these are devastatingly sharp. Mine went through my safety boot and into my foot. Just a glancing blow but still sliced through the boot and drew (a lot) of blood. 

When it comes to any sharp garden tools I now find that Fiskars is the correct answer, I love their loppers, shears, secateurs etc.
I went to Florida for my sister's wedding a few years back and saw one of hose Fiskars axes going really cheap in a shop - I sooo wanted to buy it but wasn't sure I'd get it back in my suitcase!

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BigMonka said:

rsvmark said:

Axes: http://www.fiskars.co.uk/new-axes

X25 here. Some sort of funky ceramic metal head. Very light weight. Integral wedge in axe head to split rounds. 

Beware- these are devastatingly sharp. Mine went through my safety boot and into my foot. Just a glancing blow but still sliced through the boot and drew (a lot) of blood. 

When it comes to any sharp garden tools I now find that Fiskars is the correct answer, I love their loppers, shears, secateurs etc.
I went to Florida for my sister's wedding a few years back and saw one of hose Fiskars axes going really cheap in a shop - I sooo wanted to buy it but wasn't sure I'd get it back in my suitcase!

about 7 years ago, someone I knew got a gun back in from the USA in their hold luggage. WTF?

57Deluxe

/\ yeah - I knew a guy who imported a Winniebago direct from USA and had a Luger pistol secreted in one of the headlamp shells...

15 years later he blew his brains out with it... was friend of my Step Father so bit f a shock...

rsvmark

I bought my fiskars axe on line. I didn't think twice about postage.

when it arrived they had simply wrapped the handle in transparent plastic, and the axe head in cardboard.....so the package looked distinctly axe shaped. I would have thought there would have been rules and regulations for that kind of thing!

ESBlonde

I bought an electric one to do one job of reducing the rear hedge to managable proportions. About 7 x 10" Dia trunks cut down and made into logs. I had to replace the chain (no sharpener bought)! and as I was finishing the job the saw gasped its last smokey breath (last couple of cuts done with a circular saw and hand saw). So it cost me £80 to do the job and was cheaper than someone else would charge but quite labour intensive for a few weekends. A petrol unit would have been faster, more dangerous and I'd have felt less comfortable climbing a tree with it. It would have cost more but I would have been able to recoupe cost by selling it on afterwards. That's my experience for what it's worth.