Chainsaw Repair

Manual Pruning. So whatcha using? 

Since I had sold my echo extendable pole saw. 
I find myself needing to reach up high again this year and went with a manual extendable Fiskars 14' bypass pruner with 15" saw blade. 5.05lb

Do you think we need a separate board for this manual stuff?

I did my apple trees one of those warmer days last week.   I did them with the anvil lopper as I could reach it all. I had changed my mind about apple tree pruning philosophy and used a 025 to take the center trunk out so the trees had a wine glass look to them. I didn't do the pear trees as my older step son usually does them.

I have a couple pruners like your Fiskars but didn't need them on the apples. The step son uses them to prune the weeping crab apple by the water garden.

i have one of those fiskers extendables.  works well.  should say it worked better before being used to clear a 15' long drainage pipe.

don't like the way the saw blade attaches with the wing-nut.  just takes some re-tightening during use.  mine is old, maybe the new ones differ?

when i worked in an apple orchard, all we used to prune the 'suckers' were hand pruning shears.  maybe they didn't want us idiots to ruin their trees.  anything growing on the top of the branch, or anything growing back towards the trunk was snipped. the orchard was just starting to switch over to the dwarf trees in the mid '80's.

if you got there after 6am start time it sucked.  you missed the tractor wagon ride out to where we were cutting, and got the dullest shears which were still left in the box.

edit.  just remembering the way those trees looked after pruning....like crap, but that is what they wanted them to be.  loaded with apples.

Thinking about this for a second. Betting a locking or spring wavy type washer under wing nut deal would help stop it from loosening.

I've got one about like that Fiskers .I also have a real old hand saw deal with a curved blade.That thing is about 2 feet long and cuts pretty fast.