Pocket Chainsaw - 36 Inch Manual Hand Chain - Pocket Saw with 48 Bidirectional Teeth - For Fast Easy Cutting - Camping Survival - Wire Rope Cable Saw - Backpacking Camp Gear

I was foolish enough to take my wife camping in the middle of a Forest up north where the snow was 8 to 12 inches deep, we had never been there before, AND we started our hike to a camping spot at 7pm in the dark... long story short, we never made it to the camping spot, we lost the trail with the heavy snow.The main issue with survivability for me was that i didn't wear enough layers to stay warm during sleep because I thought my equipment was rated for cold weather we were camping in.Without this chainsaw rope, not sure I would have had a camp fire that lasted the night, which ultimately mags i may freeze to death. I only had my axe-shovel combo tool and no other way to really cut wood without further exhausting myself. This chainsaw chain made it easy to cut down a 10" tree into pieces and arrange them to burn through the night. Just having the campfire so close to our tent ended up increasing the temp of the ambient air around us by at least 20 or 30 degrees which made me stop shivering and allowed me to sleep. The trade off was having the hot ashes burn holes in the ceiling of the tent throughout the night.We initially tried to sleep without the campfire being very big at first since campfires in that park were banned, but I woke up only 2 hours into the night to hear a grey wolf howling and find the fire was out and i was shaking so bad it felt like my back was iced over.In hindsight, i may have died in my sleep because i didn't notice i was even cold until the wolf woke me up. (Note to self, 20° rated sleeping bags aren't really good enough to keep you warm at 20°F).I forced myself to get dressed with snowpants and all and started to aggressively cut wood with this chainsaw to build a fire that could burn through the night. I warmed up and had a fire ready in under 20 minutes. Thankyou to the seller for selling such a tool and thank you to Amazon for sharing the tool in my feed as an advertisement only a week before the trip.I got lucky or someone was watching over me. Either way, 5 stars for making a compact product that retains its sharp teeth without dulling (even though I was only cutting soft pine and mulberry trees).

Spent a lot of time using a weight at the end of a string but with very poor accuracy. After a lot of experimentation, I ended up using a dowel about two feet long with a bunch of nuts added to the end for enough weight to toss over a tree branch taped on. Using the dowel end to flip it with a lot more velocity than a weight bag, plus a lot more accuracy, allowed me to easily reach branches 40 feet up in the dead pine tree. Tie a very light nylon string to that, and once over the limb, tie a strong rope (3/8" is about right) to the light string. Draw that back over the limb and down to the ground. Now tie the end of the strong rope to the handle of the pocket chain saw and try to orient it so that the chain bites when it reaches the limb. Tie the other end of the pocket chain saw handle to the end of the same rope (you don't need two 50' ropes, just one 100' rope will do fine). When you reach the limb, start sawing. The guy in the Youtube video is a lot stronger than he looks, or maybe at 60 years of age, I'm not as macho as I used to be. I ended up using two hands to pull the saw on one side, then switched to the other two hands to saw the other, and back, and forth. Took me about half an hour to actually saw through each of the limbs, though one of the bigger ones (8" diameter) might have been closer to 45 minutes. This is a fraction of the cost you'd pay for a tree trimmer. On the very last limb, my full weight was not sufficient to pull the chain back out of the groove it had made in the limb after most of it broke off. What was left compressed the chain so tight that I couldn't remove it. I hooked up the rope to a vehicle (in my case, a Mahindra tractor) and pulled hard enough that the tree started bending over before it gave up and let me have my chain back. The tree limbs were from a loblolly pine that died, so the wood is pretty soft. I think this would also work on a hardwood, but it would take much longer. Wear gloves. Hope this helps someone wanting to avoid paying a professional to just take down a few limbs.

I bought this to rip through fallen trees (small ones) that block trails that I am riding on. I mountain bike a lot, and in spring there are often fallen trees or branches crossing the trail. We have mostly aspen and pine here in the Colorado mountains and the teeth on this thing rip through that stuff! The blades are very sharp right out of the box. I don't know how long that will last, but at least when it's new, they are very sharp.One thing to be aware of if you haven't used one of these before is you need to get your form dialed in. Pull evenly and straight in each direction. Otherwise you get into a situation later in the cut where the chain binds in the cut. The better you get at pulling straight and evenly, the quicker you can rip through a piece of wood. Other than that, it's a very handy tool. Great for ripping up some small fire wood too.

Very compact and with teeth pointing in both directions you cut both ways as you rock the chain back and forth. Might save having to carry a bike through the woods to get around a downed tree.

I made the mistake of ordering this to cut tree branches about 20ft off the ground. The problem is the blade is one sided. After I finally managed to throw the blade tied to some para chord over the branch and positioned the blade on the cutting surface I was able to start cutting with ease chain popped out of the groove. Should bought one with dual cutting edges. It has its uses but not for trimming branches height up the in the tree.