Slash Chainsaw Recommendation

[Scyry]

For 1 Ac? That's nuts. Didn't know it had gone up to that degree.

I’m close to Denver. With insurance companies forcing mitigation, a lot of people are throwing money at it to try and keep their policies. When we got dropped by Travelers I called and 2 of the 4 who were willing to write a new policy wanted me to clear 200’ (Allstate) or 100’ (AmFam) away from the house. No trees, brush or combustibles. I called a couple mitigation companies for quotes and that’s what I got. State Farm came out and asked me to drop a couple trees and do a better slash clean up, so did that myself. Took a whole day of chipping with a trailered chipper rental to get rid of the slash.

I’m still losing 3-5 conifers 12”-18” dia. a year. Aspens seems like the deer kill half of them before they hit 10’. If they make it to 10’ they generally keep going. I still want to clear up slash further out than the insurance required. Weekend warrioring until I’m happy.

As far as mitigation in general. There’s grants for 50/50 matching up to $12,000 in the area. The ‘Hardened Home’ status line is some thing being thrown around here. Fire Department has a trained person come out and make a list of what need to be done, mitigation, siding, deck, and roofing materials. Building Department changed material requirements in 2018, think no wood on exterior. You have to do all the mitigation on their list. Insurance is throwing around this is what you have to do. So the mitigation companies know what will need to happen and the grant matching money. So magically quotes are double the grant amount. Oh and there is a list of approved companies that qualify you for the mitigation grant. There’s only ~15 on the list.

 

[Scyry]

For the record, primer-bulb-saws can be re-plumbed without the primer.

Anyway, good choice on the Echo.

Roy

Hand me down saw from my Dad who sold his place he needed it for. Realistically I needed a bigger saw too for firewood. I didn’t ever do anything but basic maintenance and run a saw when he needed help prior to 7 years ago. Anything past spark plug and air filter, took it to a shop. Even had them sharpen chains for me.

Bought the Rancher, Husky has a sale and liked the old saw so went with it. Happy with the saw for firewood. If I had done some research may have gone another way. Randomly found this website. Learning a lot. Often through headaches.