A Compliment From Professional Arborists

[edju1958]

We have crews in our area that work under contract for our local electric co.Some of you may be familiar with ASHPLUNDA.They were at my house yesterday doing some maintenance on my trees that needed to be trimmed by the electric lines.We chatted for a while & saw me loading up my trailer with my equipment to go out cutting.I've made it a habit to make sure I start my saws before I go out so I don't have any unwanted surprises.The fellas saw me start up my Super Mini & were impressed at how easy it started & they even said so.I told them it was due to being properly tuned & explained to them that most of the saws I use are old points & condenser saws.Of course they looked at me kinda funny.They asked if they could look at my saw collection & I told them of course.I also told them that each saw had a story behind it.I pulled out my XL-923 & he asked me if he could hold it to get an idea of it's weight.He exclaimed "holy crap,how would you like to climb a tree with one of these"?to his coworker.His coworker was just a young fella of maybe 24 or 25 & he just shook his head.I told them that they'd want to use the SEZ for climbing & he told me that they climb with whatever size saw they need.Now that impressed me.Lol It was a great compliment to have those guys even ask to look at my saws.

[rarefish383]

All of our climbers used EZ's or variants as climbing saws. If doing take downs, you went up to an XL900 series as needed, then up to a Super 1050. When SVK was trying to get the XL900 saw I gave him running, he commented on it having a loop on the handle, and speculated it was for use in a bucket truck. Nope, it was for use on a belt. We usually had a short stiff wire loop permanently mounted, to keep the muffler from hanging on your calf, and a longer lanyard so you could reach out arms length. Asplundh used to make and sell chippers. We had an Asplundh 16" with a Ford 300 inline 6 engine. My uncle went with the 16" with a ford V8, he later regretted the V8. The radiator was bigger and would jackknife when backing before the 6 would.

When I was a kid there were no small climbing saws. For limbs up to about 14-16 inches the climbers still used hand saws. Here's a couple pre Super EZ saws that my Dad actually used.



Congrats on the compliments, it's nice to know there are people out there that appreciate our collections.

[rarefish383]

Ed, the black handled saw in the bottom pic is actually an Asplundh Hand Saw. I think it is stamped on the other side. I'm going to start an other thread in Off Topic.