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[notahacker]

I have many problems with this. I could be typing for hours at to how stupid this product is marketed and the idea itself.

Any takes on this?

http://www.treehelp.com/shopping/product-detail.asp?Product_ID=1610

 

[04ultra]

That looks like Amish chain saw..

 

[Trinity Honoria]

I have many problems with this. I could be typing for hours at to how stupid this product is marketed and the idea itself.

Any takes on this?

silly people (me before i joined AS and learned better!) would order it, if they managed to get the weight over the limb, and if it will cut, will wind up with the limb coming down on their noggins...

i've learned to call a professional...

 

[moss]

A perfect tool if you want to rip your tree up, hit yourself on the head and screw up your wrists and hands. Doesn't look very ergonomic, after a couple of cuts I expect the tool would end up never being used again. I wonder how many of these end up hanging in trees permanently?
-moss

 

[NickfromWI]

My favorite line...

The lightweight, yet extremely strong polypropylene ropes are electrically non-conductive posing no problems with overhead wires.

Great. That'll weed 'em out real fast.

love
nick

 

[pantheraba]

silly people (me before i joined AS and learned better!) would order it, if they managed to get the weight over the limb, and if it will cut, will wind up with the limb coming down on their noggins...

i've learned to call a professional...

Trinity, you are becoming one of us...you have the angles figured out:

Most folks could not get it up to the limb.
They'd probably cut at the wrong spot...if it cut.
The limb would probably rip the trunk when it fell...and
They would be standing in the danger zone while doing their sawing.

Doh!!!! :bang:

 

[BlueRidgeMark]

Nothing new about those. I've always liked the idea of cutting a limb while standing under it.

 

[darkstar]

?

I had heard of those for years ,but last spring we did a job where one was stuck up in a huge elm . The customer had made his own bow and set the line . Oh well its still there ,as far as i know ,he hired us for other work.

 

[John464]

they could of atleast put a hard hat on the old guy.

 

[KarlP]

(Getting on nomex suit.)

I'll pipe up as a "stupid homeowner". This things work great if you use them for the right purpose and in the right manner.

I not a pro. I don't have a bucket truck and I'm not comfortable climbing. I can reduce the top of a tree in size before felling so I won't hurt other trees while its coming down. I can cut huge limbs off one side of the tree to correct for a weighting opposite to the direction I want to fell the tree. If I borrow a BigShot, I can prune off the 2-4' long dead stalks 40-80' up in a pin oak left after a branch breaks off while my feet are safely planted on the ground. I have a 20' Hayate and have called in a pro in the past, but the high limb chain saws really do work well for the uses described above.

However, I'll agree that the picture of the usage is stupid. You need two people to play a game of tug of war with one of these things to use them effectively. The users need to be standing approximately as far apart as the limb is off the ground. If you use the saw as indicated on the package you will most likely pinch the chain and get the saw stuck up in a tree. A second person standing on the opposite side of the branch will allow the chain to cut primarily on the top of the limb instead of cutting through the sides if you're standing directly under the limb. This will prevent the saw from jamming. Besides, if you somehow manage to cut through the limb alone without pinching the chain, you'll end up with the limb on your head.

Its a tool. Most tools are neither smart nor stupid. Its the user of the tool that usually causes the problem.

 

[pbtree]

 

[LightningLoader]

That has to be one of the stupidest product representations I've ever seen. They're just begging for a visit from the personal injury attorneys, and I have to say that they deserve it.

 

[younggun]

it dosen't look like it would be possable to do an undercut with that so if some one actuly dose cut a big branch off the tree there is a good chance it will peel the bark half way down the trunk:bang:

 

[stihlatit]

it dosen't look like it would be possable to do an undercut with that so if some one actuly dose cut a big branch off the tree there is a good chance it will peel the bark half way down the trunk:bang:

With a long long long rope from both sides if you have the room you might get all the way around to prevent that but with dificulty I'm sure. I'd rather climb.

Arnie

 

[stihlatit]

That has to be one of the stupidest product representations I've ever seen. They're just begging for a visit from the personal injury attorneys, and I have to say that they deserve it.

Hey lightning what is the "personal Injuries Attorney". Please educate this Canadian boy on that one. Must bea American institution Thx.

Arnie

 

[LightningLoader]

personal injury attorneys

Hey lightning what is the "personal Injuries Attorney". Please educate this Canadian boy on that one. Must bea American institution Thx.

Arnie

Are you trying to pour salt in the wound, or are you serious?
I've heard that this isn't such a problem in Canada, maybe you have better sense up there. Basically a personal injury attorney is someone who goes around representing people who hurt themselves by being careless or stupid (I'm sure that there are some people who are legitimately hurt by unsafe products, and there must be a truly good hearted personal injury attourney out there somewhere, but this is not usually the case). Their job is to find someone wealthy to blame and sue them for crazy amounts of money (which they usually get).

Example: If I put my hand in the blender while it was running and lost my finger. It was the blender manufacturer's fault for not putting a warning label on the blender saying do not put hand in blender while plugged in. If the blender had a label then the problem would be that I was illiterate or blind, and it should have come with a training tape. If the training tape didn't work then there should have been a safety locking device that disengaged the blades when the lid was removed (which does happen with food processors, probibly because they were sued).

It makes it almost impossile to do business you spend so much time defending yourself. Makes it hard to pay your employees well and keep prices down when you have to spend all of your money on insurance and lawyers.

 

[SilentElk]

Injury attorney's are the lowest ofrm of life. Like the ones that sued McDonalds or making their coffee too hot. Irony is, if there coffee was cooler in temparature and lukewamr I bet their sales would drop alot!

As far as that rig goes, if has been for sale for a long time. I think Cabela's had one in their catalog at one point if I recall correctly. For $44.95 thats a real good markup for a small section of chain and a rope.

 

[KarlP]

Injury attorney's are the lowest ofrm of life. Like the ones that sued McDonalds or making their coffee too hot. Irony is, if there coffee was cooler in temparature and lukewamr I bet their sales would drop alot!

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