Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Cool

A few days ago I bought a saw blade for pruning or trimming trees. It's from the Wolf Tools range, so you attach it to the handle of your choice, depending on how far away (read: high up) the branch is that you want to saw.

It has a curved blade, something I had taken for granted in tree-sawing blades before, but it has a subtlety of operation that I had not appreciated. When you use it with a long handle to saw high-up branches, when you pull it towards you the curve in the saw causes it to catch on the branch at the end of its travel. As a result it doesn't slide off the branch and start falling towards the ground, so you don't have to keep repositioning it.

Neat, huh?

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3 comments:

  1. @eloh2 February 2010 at 12:08

    In my able years I always used a bow saw. This curve would have been a grand improvement.

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  2. Jonathan2 February 2010 at 12:08

    Very neat. Thanks for the tip. But before I buy I must finish fixing the shed roof...

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  3. Molly Potter4 February 2010 at 04:17

    The tiny practical corner of my brain (which is still actually in an abstract, theoretical state and doesn't actually like sawing for real-even with a bow saw - which is as best as it has gotten for me) can really appreciate (conceptually) how this is a marked improvement on a non-curved blade.

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