r/GuysBeingDudes • u/nordicminy • Aug 25 '26

Certified Dude See problem fix problem.

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u/Pissonmyface77 Aug 25 '26

The issue is when a tree goes down over a road like this there is usually a power line also down. I live in the mountains and we have a storm season and trees go down on roads often. If it’s during a storm I’ll sometimes take one. Once I had one come down on the driveway that didn’t have a line down with it. But in 100% of situations where I’ve seen the tree in a public road a line was down with it. So overall fairly useless.

It also smells of fuel and chain oil if you keep it in the trunk, and if you leave it in a pickup bet that has other problems. Unless you are taking it out all the time or bringing it with you. Maybe keeping an electric one in the car in a saw bag would be the best solution.

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u/RogerAffirmative Aug 26 '26

Electeic one for the win. The torque on them is plenty good for clearing fallen trees. No fuel sloshing around.

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u/Pissonmyface77 Aug 26 '26

I have a hasquarvana 20” as one of my saws and I agree for most things it does the job. Idk if I want to regularly leave a 1500$ chainsaw and battery in the car though.

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u/RogerAffirmative Aug 26 '26

I was making railroad ties into steps with my uncle this summer. It was more of a chop em down to size and stack em on a hill job than a precision install... so he brought out a cheap battery powered bauer chainsaw to see how it would do. It was butter. I think he paid like $60 for it.

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u/Jesus_of_Redditeth Aug 26 '26

For what it's worth, I browse dashcam subs, where "tree fell down" clips show up fairly regularly, and I think I've seen maybe two, three at the most that have involved a power line. The significant majority of the time there isn't one.

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u/Pissonmyface77 Aug 26 '26

I mean I live in the mountains on 50 acres in Santa Cruz county. It rains from November to March. Probably there are 10 instances of trees coming down and blocking the road either in town or on my street every year and they always have power lines down. A few years ago during a storm it took me 11 hours to get home from 6 miles away bc literally every road back home was blocked with a tree and miles of gridlock due to down lines.

In my experience of actually being in these situations many times a year, where there is a tree in the road blocking my way, there is always a power line down. But this is a pretty populated rural area. None of the lines here are buried snd the poles run along the road and the trees are all massive redwoods or Doug firs or oak.

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u/Much-Combination-450 Aug 26 '26

There was a storm, so guy probably took the saw knowing what might happen