Converted my 10" pole saw to 14" with trash day chain saw

My pole saw is electric 20+ years old with a worn out chain, i sharpened it 3 or 4 times. i just cut fronds with it- have 3 palm trees.
Gas chain saw looked shot and i don't use any gas tools, but i saw it was the same brand and the cutting teeth looked excellent compared to my junk. (you know your stuff is junk when trash looks better :lol:
It took half an hour just to get the chain off :lol: It did fit and the bar has a guide wheel that mine didn't have :thumb: did spend an hour cleaning and lubing.
Tested it and
i figure a 14" chain should last 40% longer than the 10" :thumb:

Remember its all in how you sharpen and grind the chain saw. The cutting edge profile is what counts!

BTW there is now a new chain saw, it is fuel injected. Check out Bucking Billy Ray's youtube channel, he's from the Isle of Van and quite the character. He's done vids on sharpening and grinding anyone of his 100 chain saws, and reviews chain saws.

in my case the old chain ate some sand and even concrete i don't think the fronds dull it at all.
sometimes i'm up on a ladder and when i make the cut, i've had to let the pole saw drop down chain first
i don't use any 2 stroke tools- too noisy and the stale gas problem.

We have several chains ready to rock n roll just in case one gets dull by cutting wood and allowing the chain to hit the gravel road rocks or sand. Pole saw can be worth it but if it gets to long then it gets to wieldy to handle and can become dangerous. Then you need to get the ladder out, or rent scissor lift. I always wonder how much those real true tree huggers get paid to cut down tree's. Ran into some the other day and theres a guy on yt out of NY state called Andrew Camarata, check out his channel. More interesting then the hick from the Isle of Van. Andrew rips trees out, roots and all dealing in heavy machinery and steel doing a variety of jobs in a day, not like Isle of Van guy doing same thing day in day out. Which way to fell the tree is about as hard as it gets for Billy Ray.

2 of my 4 palm trees are now "out of range" :lol: like 15'-18' tall - i'm not going up that high at 68. fronds will fall down as nature intended :thumb:
maybe i'll hire a tree climber every 5 years or so to clean them up.

This is an electric chainsaw? I have the Remington 10"polesaw. I don't so much want it longer as want more than 1 hp. I get the 4hp and--- well,I don't know, maybe that's too heavy to have at the other end of a pole. Yeah, I need longer, I have a eucalyptus I need to cut at over 20 feet off the ground, with no real way to climb beyond an extension ladder I'd rather not have underneath what I'm cutting. But that 1hp would have a big job cutting through some seriously thick branches.

Seen a few vids on the good ole youtube that do this method.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBYCEwZfFh4

Oh then theres this method
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcMdTAAt7IQ

Chainsaw blade on a rope is interesting if you can throw the rope that high. As I'm saying, you don't want to be underneath. But I'm talking several times thicker. That would take hours.

There's the additional problem of mine is pointing upward, so you don't casually throw something over it.

The Silky is apparently off the market. Amazon said it was "Corded Electric" but that makes no sense. Here's a longer one for a quarter of the price. https://www.amazon.com/DocaPole-Extension-Attachment-Telescopic-Extendable/dp/B081595C5L

So my polesaw is sort of like this but it's the conventional chainsaw that bolts onto the pole. The new one is up to 15', mine might do that but it's not enough. As the one guy said, it's hundreds of dollars to bring someone out. And it's a eucalyptus, so if you start cutting and give up with one of those methods, oh, it'll go ahead and come down on it's own. Sometime. As in when you least expect it. I had a branch almost 50 feet long and more substantial than the trees in most yards just come off and land on my truck. Broke the tonneau, caved in the roof. Hours to cut it out. And there have been other collapses. If you ever heard the story of Lily Tomlin's tree, yeah, like that. They just fall apart. Eucalyptus just doesn't belong in a residential neighborhood. But it'll be a thousand dollars to have someone take it out for me.

I have all these issues too..
A dozen or more Palms..some 10++ mts tall,
Huge Eucalipts that drop big boughs
..i also have chainsaws, electric and gas pole saws, and one of those 10mtr manual extension pole saws.
i have even tried “attaching” the electric pole saw to the telescopic manual saw pole .... !!!
but that is impossible to control at height.
Powered pole saws become unworkable abone about 4 mtrs high, so the manual saw id the only viable tool for the palm fronds..
But at max reach 8+ mtrs, you are working with only the weight of the saw to cut....it is “hard Yakka”. especially if the fronds are dead and dry.
was quoted $500 for an specialist tree worker to strip fronds from ONE of the Cabbage palms
i am working up to using the big chain saw at ground level !!!
...but pulling the stumps is even more “Yakka”
These things are like “incendary bombs” and you cannot even get to the fronf stems to saw them !

See if you can get a buddy to help pay for a scissor lift for a 2 or 4 hour rental. You use the scissor lift and get what you want done, and your friend uses the lift to do the same.

Or, quote a job that requires a scissor lift, do job and roll on over to your place and get what you need done.

Or, make your own long poled saw with a $15 classic hand saw with some metal to bolt on some steel to clamp and wood. Screw some 2x2 wood or 2x4s with saw attached. Be sure to study the angle of attack to get between the obstacles. Or spring for a good telescopic unit with same diy saw attached or buy telescopic saw if you can get it long enough. Might have to rent or borrow a long ass self-supporting step ladder, or risk an extension ladder leaning right against the tree.
unitedrentals -
$50/day (90210 zip code) Extension Ladder, 36 ft.-40 ft.
$43/day (90210 zip) Step Ladder, 16 ft.
$160/day for 15' Scissor lift
$280/day for 33' some go to 40', 50' and 70' ($400-$500/day)

You could recoup your money if you ask your neighbors and friends if they require help with their tree's, which you will give them a great price on.

So I understand the eucalyptus is a much more pleasant tree in its' native Australia. They tried using it for railroad ties here but they suddenly decide to warp. And I understand they don't drop branches as badly there. At one point pretty much my whole tree caved in, this after I'd done some serious reduction of it several months earlier, can't imagine how long it would have taken to clean up if I hadn't already.

Scissor lift. Or maybe just a bucket truck. The pole extension and blade is $100, then it just keeps getting worse. If I pay someone at least I'm not the one going through it. Once it's on the ground I actually enjoy chopping it up with the chainsaw. It's just the getting it there.

I've got some smaller ash trees I'll probably take down right away. The euc, so thick, even with most of the top gone the main trunk alone is gonna break my driveway, eh?

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Thanks for the suggestions, ..needless to say i have considered most of them, and remembering i have several of these large palms ( in bad positions for their size,.)...and even tho’ i love trees, the simplest option is to “drop” them..as i already have with some. But then the trunks and roots are a problem as you cannot chip/mulch them.
Dauntless... there are over 1500 species of Eucalipts, but most of them do drop branches and large boughs as water supply becomes scarce .. many people have died from falling branches ( never camp under a gum tree !)
Its hard to keep up with dropped branches in my yard, even though they burn well in the fire pit which is lit several times a
week.
The cordless chainsaw is a wonderful tool ! :wink:

^ I'd have no idea what those tree's look like, to not camp under.
Even with a quick online search Eucalipt trees look like any other tree. Gum tree's are no different.
Birch and Fir/Pine no problemo

Theres some apple trees a block away, then theres this one tree that dumps small berry like things in the fall. Then theres the trees that give off the fluff that flies in the air.

Maybe Dauntless is right, I wouldnt last 2 months camping if I were camping under Gum and Eucalipt trees.

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Maybe Dauntless is right, I wouldnt last 2 months camping if I were camping under Gum and Eucalipt trees.

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I never said you wouldn't last camping. Mom called mine a "Silver dollar eucalyptus." Round leaves about that size. It doesn't just drop branches, there's such junk under one and it keeps coming, you won't want to sleep there. You take F with you and HE can sleep under the gum tree. Here's a song for him to learn so he can sing while you shake the tree.

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i like the engine down low, for balance. neighbor has 1 like this https://www.homedepot.com/p/Senix-26-5-cc-Gas-4-Cycle-Attachment-Capable-Pole-Saw-with-a-Reach-of-up-to-15-ft-CSP4QL-L/310842212

cut 12' limb with the pole saw. had to stretch it full length and stand on a ladder.
this was the biggest limb i've ever cut. glad it missed me on the way down
cut nice, but chain popped off as the sprocket is shot.
i spent a half hour sawing branches off the limb. dragged the limb into the woods. this may be my last big job. there are 7 more limbs even bigger, and i will hire a tree service for those. this limb weighed enough to kill if it hit me.