26" Outdoor Camping Tactical Survival Pocket Chainsaw With Pouch | Portable Hand Saw Cuts Like A Knife | 3x Faster With CUTTING BLADE ON EVERY LINK | Bonus Front Snap Carrying Case

This hand-pull chainsaw has the best, most thoughtful, design I've seen in a long time.Most of the other brands I checked out on Amazon have only one tooth on every third link, this saw has a tooth on every link. More teeth, fundamentally, equals more cutting with each pass and that equals faster cutting.Additionally, all the other brands I checked out have all of the teeth cutting in one direction, this saw, however, has sets of two teeth cutting in one direction followed by sets of two teeth cutting in the opposite direction. The arrangement alternates this way down the chain. This means this saw cuts in both directions -- the "push and the pull" as it were, except it's pull in both directions. When you pull the chainsaw up with your right hand it's cutting, when you pull up with your left it's also cutting.Moreover, this saw has each alternate tooth positioned on opposite sides of the chain from the others next to it. This, I believe, allows the saw to better clear out the cut-off material from the branch.CON: (not a major issue, though)If I could offer an idea for improvement it would be to make the chainsaw's length longer. This is a little tricky, however, considering that it's meant to be lightweight, which it is. At 26" -- much the same length as the other brands -- it's basically 13 inches, give-or-take a little, to the bottom of the branch you're cutting. It can handle a branch probably up to 8 inches diameter without much problem. Over that, however, and you'll have to work hard. If you figure a 10 inch diameter branch means you've got about 8" of chain on either side of the branch (8 x2 = 16 plus 10 = 26). That means your hands will be rubbing against the branch.This is a difficult thing to reconcile since a longer chain can cope with bigger branches, but also will add more weight and increase the price. Perhaps if there were a few size options it would be best. The customer could choose lighter weight smaller sizes for survival preparedness, or larger heavier sizes if they want.Still, having tested this saw, I highly recommend it.

Works great! Seriously, this thing cuts through timber better than any other saw we've brought with us backpacking. Folding bow saws are too big, silky saws have weak blades that break. --- (I know all of the silky fans will say that you have to use it the right way) --- but here is what this saw does -- its tough as nails, it chews huge cuts of saw dust, and makes short work of whatever branch or limb you are cutting. It is very easy to use with one person.... but if you want to make really short work of a larger branch, then put a friend on one handle and yourself on the other. The teeth are sharp, the chain is rugged, the cuts are clean. Tips for making clean fast cuts - prop one side of the limb you are cutting up and cut from bottom up (should prevent 99% of chain bindings); start a little slow, about 3 or 4 pulls back and forth and you'll have a grove started and the chain should stay in the cut -- you can speed up after that and make short work; for larger cuts - keep the chain flat for a bit --- don't pull up so much as side to side (if you pull up high, the chain wraps around the limb --- meaning you are cutting in from all sides but the top. this is going be tough to do no matter what. wait until you get about half way through then start pulling up higher to finish the cut off.)If you are debating it... get it. Try it. You will not be disappointed. After one trip it has exceeded my expectations. It packs small, its light, its sharp, its tough. We are thinking about getting second one, for when the teeth dull (not expecting to any time soon) - that way I can take my time to sharpen the first and still have another to use.

I used it, so far to cut a 2" branch. The wood was average hardness. You come to realize that there are different hardnesses of wood; pine is soft, some species are very hard, and most are average. It also makes a difference if it is alive or dead. But it does the job. Takes a drop patience [more than an electric chainsaw]. Took me 30s to 1m to cut this branch (which was dead) - live and thinner go much quicker. For a hand-powered chainsaw it's great. I keep it in my bike; sometimes there are branches sticking into the sidewalk which need to be cut. I keep a squeezer pruner in my bike, and have pruned branches on sidewalks that I ride. This will make a good addition; for thicker branches which are hard to cut with a pruner (and is not safe for the bones in the wrist to squeeze so hard, or for branches which are simply too thick).----Safety Note----It is important to have your hands spread out so it is like a 'V' from the branch, in order that you shouldn't get scraped by the chain. Since it's a new type of tool from a saw or even a powered chainsaw, you have to remember to keep you hands apart.

Freakishly effective. Ate through a 7" diameter dried avocado stump in less than a minute and iwith not too mich effort either. The speed of cutting definitely exceeded my expectations as im sure it would have taken far longer had i used my gardenia pull saw. The cut wasnt quite as smooth but it wasnt necessary for my purposes. The vendor Canadian Shield Camping sent me a couple of messages to check how its doing. Good gesture there, thank you. I cant really compare this with other manual chain saws but this definitely does the job. Im yet to test it on roots though, which is the main reason for buying it. Will update once i do that as im expecting something different given the more fibrous wood.July 12 2017 update: Tested it on a 3" diameter root. Once again, it totally blew me away how it took literally less than 10 seconds to eat through it. It would have been difficult to do the job with my pruning saw, plus, it would have taken atleast a minute to do.