This little saw is excellent, fast cutting, light weight (at 3 oz without the case), and folds up small making it highly portable. It can quickly saw branches and trees up to about 4-6 inches in diameter with its 28 inch long chain.
To use it, wrap the chain around whatever you want to cut and then grab the handles and pull back and forth. This flexibility means that it can take on logs and branches too thick for smaller camp saws. I've used it in the back country as well as around the yard.
When one of the metal loops that attached the saw to the handles came apart at the weld point the company very quickly responded by sending me a new set of loops. It's an excellent product supported by a conscientious and responsive company.
[Note: An even lighter weight military model can be purchased here.--OH]
--Jaime Cobb
Supreme Products Pocket Chain Saw
$25
Check out a video of one in action after the jump.
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Teller backpacks above timberline where no campfires are allowed. But it looks functional, he said insufferably.
Anonymous
As a Wilderness Ranger, the mention of backcountry saw use in this article makes me angry. if you need a saw for your campfire wood in the backcountry, your campfire wood is too big. Could you amend this article to include a mention of Leave No Trace principles?
Here are the basics:
Organic litter like tree branches needs to go back into the soil to provide nutrients essential to various ecological processes. This is especially true in dry or high elevation areas where tree’s take a long time to grow. The Leave No Trace recommendation is that fire wood should be no larger than an adult wrist in diameter, and you should be able to break the wood by hand. Saw use is actually illegal in some wilderness areas.
Also, please do not burn tinfoil. I’m tired of picking through ashes for tiny bits of tinfoil.
johnnyaction
This is ACE!
I had one when I was in the Army and it is incredibly useful.
Way faster than a normal big camp saw and fun to use.
frankieboy
Can I bring it on the plane?
l’elk!
i think this product is real neat but… what ever happened to leaning a stick up against a rock and stepping on it?
Anonymous
The military model apparently “Cuts through 3†limb in less than 10 seconds”.
I don’t wanna know.
Anonymous
How are you supposed to have a massacre with THAT?
Anonymous
Was I the only one who remembered the movie Audition while seeing this?
The Thompson Five
No. *shudder*
forgeweld
Cute toy, but you wouldn’t want to cut *too* much wood with it. I’ll stick with my sven saw. http://www.svensaw.com/
Tomas
Used to carry a couple of those in my 4X4s. Excellent and very handy tool!
(Durable and worth the price, too.)
inkyblue2
hey, now that looks useful. and light. ordered.
Anonymous
I picked one of these up last month… it’s awesome. I was able to cut a 6 inch diameter limb that was 25 feet up an oak in my backyard by tying ropes to each end of the pocket chainsaw and throwing one end over the limb. Then I used it to cut the downed limb into smaller pieces to hall away.
Ito Kagehisa
OK, one last, then I’m out.
I have one of these. It cuts what it says it’ll cut… NO MORE.
Do not attempt to cut an 18″ diameter branch 25′ overhead. It seems like it would work, but it won’t. You’ll just end up having to climb the tree with a gas saw to cut the damn thing loose. At my age that’s no fun at all.
Kindle
This little saw is excellent, fast cutting, light weight (at 3 oz without the case), and folds up small making it highly portable. It can quickly saw branches and trees up to about 4-6 inches in diameter with its 28 inch long chain.
To use it, wrap the chain around whatever you want to cut and then grab the handles and pull back and forth. This flexibility means that it can take on logs and branches too thick for smaller camp saws. I've used it in the back country as well as around the yard.
When one of the metal loops that attached the saw to the handles came apart at the weld point the company very quickly responded by sending me a new set of loops. It's an excellent product supported by a conscientious and responsive company.
[Note: An even lighter weight military model can be purchased here.--OH]
--Jaime Cobb
Supreme Products Pocket Chain Saw
$25
Check out a video of one in action after the jump.
Comment on this at Cool Tools. Or, submit a tool!