re: pole saw recommendations

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Harbor Freight Pole Saw I have this one and I've been happy with it although I wish the bar were longer. If I need it to trim trails or am too far away from power I just use my generator to run it. It's a bit of a pain but most of my use is at the house so it wasn't worth forking out the extra for a battery or gas unit.

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Second this.. bought for $79 probably 5 years ago, still works like a champ. Great for around the house and use small generator to do trails at the camp. AND much lighter than the gas units, cause I'm getting old AF

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If you don't mind a little exercise, and are not doing a tremendous amount of trimming at a time, manual pole saws work fine. As with anything, you get what you pay for. I use a Corona pole saw, from Lowes, about $80. It cuts amazingly well, it suits me fine. I have used it to trim limbs as big as 4" or so in diameter.

LINK Corona Pole Saw

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We got the 14' version for $55+ tax. Big downside is that it doesn't have the grips that the 16' has but it did the job for what we needed. It was somewhat of a pain because I want to try and reach higher 4" limbs and not have to try and cut from such a far distance.

After this year we'll either stick with this until it breaks, or get an electric one if the trees produce enough to where it's worth buying.