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Old 05-06-2006, 08:58 PM
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Pruning saws

I've broken too many of the small Corona folding saws in the last couple of years and I'm thinking of purchasing the larger non folding kind. Anyone have any recommendations?
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Old 05-07-2006, 10:52 AM
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How about a silky saw? I have no experience with them, we use felco. They look like really nice saws though.

http://www.silkysaws.com/
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Old 05-07-2006, 11:25 AM
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Do yourself a favor and buy the Silky Ibuki. Comes with a hard holster and cuts everything like butter. We were fortunate enough to be given 2 of them by one of our clients who was working with a Silky rep somehow.
Anyways, they cost a little $ but I can cut through a 4" tree in 6 - 7 pulls. We use ours all the time.
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i use a mixture of Felco and Silky saws
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I have a Felco folding saw that fits in my back pocket. I have never snapped a blade unless I was being too agressive. I keep a spare on the truck for when one of my crew members decides to dull a 20.00 blade cutting roots.

I conider Corona pruning tools middle of the road.

Felco folding saw
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Old 05-08-2006, 06:06 PM
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The Silky history page gave me a good laugh:
http://www.silkysaws.com/history.htm
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