Chainsaw Reviews: Felling in the Woodlot

Reader Contribution by Caleb D. Regan
Published on July 31, 2014
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Late last fall – while it was still warm enough to work in light long sleeves – Editor-in-Chief Hank Will and Managing Editor Caleb Regan had the pleasure to spend a day in the woodlot working on some chainsaw reviews. Hank had a stand of old dead pines he wanted to thin out so that several young live oak trees might have a chance to flourish. Here’s Caleb’s account. 

We ran a number of saws that day – Echo, Husqvarna, Oregon and GreenWorks – and it was all about getting a start on the project and ultimately testing some awesome felling and limbing saws in an authentic setting.

There were no perfect 12-inch hackberry trees to watch the machines rip through. Instead, we needed to systematically dissect our way through the pine stand and sort out around 25 dead trees from the rest of the woodlot – even a couple of humongous oaks in the mix. Plus we limbed up a portion of the downed trees to maintain order and walkways.

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