Folding chain handsaw. What do you think?

[bmartin1uk]

Any good do you reckon?
Folding chain hand saw

 

[CaptainBeaky]

Hard work, dubious efficiency - I'd get a Bahco or preferably a Silky instead. They maight take up a bit more space and weight in your pack, but then so would the extra plasters for when you use the chain-saw jobbie

 

[Retired Member southey]

I have a modern version from ultimate survival kits, It is pretty quick and easy, but the tooth set is more line with modern chain saw blades rather than the teeth on that one,

 

[forestwalker]

Nope. The idea was interesting, but they are a very inefficient way to cut wood.

 

[British Red]

I have one, they are nothing like modern "survival chain saws". Be aware these are two man saws - large, very agressive and designed for big wood.

The saw you are looking at is the top one in the picture below. These "trench saws" are the best of all the manual "chain saws" by far - but not a lightweight tool

saws by British Red, on Flickr

Red

 

[Nagual]

Thats interesting BR, my first reaction was similar to the above posts,and having owned one of the modern type o things, say avoid. However the larger one could certainly be useful in the right circumstances if and it is a big IF you didn't have anything else like it. If the OP is after something that cuts through wood like a knife through butter - as mentioned try the Silky, used 'em at work and they beat all other ones I' ve used.

 

[FGYT]

get a big silky or even a Silky BIG BOY if you actually want to cut wood

£40 from Ebay

thats a Ful size woody clone in the picture and hte log is ash it took about 10mins with a laplander to cut one end and bout the same with a Gerber saw
the Silky when half way thro in a few strokes

 

[British Red]

No doubt, something like the silky is better - I reach for my pocket boy first. The trench saw is...fun, but is essentially a floding misery whip. Hard work but will cut big timber.

The modern pocket chainsaws are just rubbish imo

 

[Peter_t]

a good bow saw beats a silky. old school blades, not the disposable rubbish you get these days.
i don't like silky saws for bushcraft, way too fragile. they are designed for pruning and thats all they are good for imo.


pete

 

[Toddy]

I had one of those, it was a brute of a saw, absolutely lethal if handled without due care and attention. I know it didn't cost £20 either.
I gave it away, don't know if the fellow I gave it to ever found himself in need enough to use it in preference to a laplander or folding bowsaw though

cheers,
Toddy

 

[lannyman8]

get a folder mate much better or bow saw if you realy need to be cutting that much wood.......

 

[Tengu]

I have one if anyone fancies trying it out

 

[oetzi]

FGYT, thats a rather small log for a Big Boy
Look here:

A Pocket Boy with coarse teeth is an essential in a pack!

 

[MikeE]

I have used one of these ex-forces saws (as 1st post) to take down a telegraph pole. I "found" the saw at the back of my troop stores, it wasn't on the books, so we tried it out on Leek training area. A very old (and dis-used!) pole was next to one of the old bunkers till we came along. It coped very well considering its age (1944). The pole didn't half make a noise when it landed! It became an anchor for all the cable lays my troop laid that weekend. Even laying at 30mph (against SOPs) we didn't move it. Somehow I seemed to retain the said item when I was posted to another Squadron naughty boy!