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Originally Posted by Trev For me it depends on the style of job at hand.
For Crown Reduction Pruning, reaching out to 2" dia tips, a top handle saw & Silky zubat is preffered, but have done it with a 2 handle when at a pinch.
For smallish removals with lots of cut/snap/throw a top handle is preffered.
For med/large removals with either open space or rigging a grunty 2 handle is good, i'm happy to do it but often forget out of habit unless its real big.
Most other climbers ive seen would never even think about using anything other than their ms200 no matter how big the job and will push it to its limits on cuts well & truly big enough they should have moved up a saw size.
BTW, when i say 2 handle i know ms200 has 2 handles as well! I mean a conventional handled saw! |
I'm kinda the same as what you mentioned Trev. Although say about 6-9 months ago I would've been definately Top handle FTW. As of lately with my palm TD's I take out the head with my MS200 and prefer my 250 with a full chisel chain on it for chunking down the palm. I've noticed there is HUGE difference with palm compression wood when I go from the 200 to the 250.
Trev, the conversion to still from the 346xp would be the 250 or 260. The 250 is 45cc's and I'm unsure of the 260's cc's but I'm sure Streyken will be here posting soon enough
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