My friend's dad lives 20 minutes away and gets permits every year to cut down trees for firewood.
He drove past and said "The risk of damaging something is too high to take it on (retaining walls, etc)."
I read that some extensions were available for some pole saws, so I tried to see if Harbor Freight sold one.
Of course not!
I tried to find the pole saw with the longest handle (or extension), but only found one a couple of feet longer.
I found people gary-rigging pole saws--one guy secured his pole saw to a long handle using hose clamps and bolts.
He plugged in the extension cord to turn it on and unplugged it to turn it off.
I read about someone else who strapped their pole saw to a 2x4 and wondered if he could have found anything less awkward.
One guy used multiple extensions to make the whole thing 25' long and that seemed to work okay, but I didn't find an extension easily.
Looking again, this 31" extension is $70, and Ego recommends against stacking them:
https://www.acehardware.com/departme...50?store=16988
So, it's possible!
- The extension costs more than my Harbor Freight pole saw, which I thought worked well enough.
- Ego only makes battery-powered products.
- Their pole saw is $170, but that is just the attachment if you already have a battery, charger, and whatever the heck a "Power head" is.
- The full package is $400 and I would still need to buy one or more attachments.
- I kept finding extensions for manual saws and some guy saying that a quality manual saw is orders of magnitude better than the cheap Corona one.
- The Corona one costs more than my Harbor Freight corded one and he said that it rusted after one use.
- He cut down a branch, showed the shaft flexed ridiculously, and counted well over 200 strokes to trim a branch.
- Then he used the pole saw which he said was the best. The shaft barely flexed, and it took over 100 strokes.
- He said it cost $300, but I couldn't find it locally.
- I found a Fiskars manual saw with a 16-foot handle for $100 in Show Low. Maybe I could find something longer down here, but I would rather not drive for 4 hours with my trunk open!
- I received 62.5% for an assignment I spent 8 hours doing on Sunday because apparently my professor hates bullet points even though all of the samples that I found on-line used them.
Wouldn't it be fun to cut down 20 branches, each requiring 200 strokes?!