On a related note....

[tyggerjai]

*Does* anyone have a chainsaw?
Buying one for this purpose seems extreme.
(Update: Now that I'm home, the wisteria is in fact more intense than I remembered. And $400 of the quote is for removal, which I suspect isn't going to get any cheaper. So, fuckit, I'll see if the landlord is interested in going halves, and just pay the damn thing.)

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Chainsaw

[lirion.livejournal.com]

My parents have one they may be happy to lend, will check. Depends on when you need it.

[frou-frou.livejournal.com]

why not hire one? I can't imagine they're expensive, and one of those tool hire places would have a few...

[hiraedd.livejournal.com]

I can get a small electric one from work that'll do the job. While hire saws are cheap, you may just walk out with a whole bunch of gardening stuff you'll never use ....

[simonb.livejournal.com]

You'd think so.... but IME when I got a chainsaw a couple of years ago for a one-off job (it worked out to be only a bit more expensive to buy a chainsaw than to rent one) I then found I had more uses for it.

And its surprising how many people who need chainsaws themselves for a one-off job crawl out of the woodwork :)

So I'd say just buy yourself a chainsaw... there again I'm a DIY tool slut so I'm probably biased :)

Tools!

[tyggerjai.livejournal.com]

We have no garden, really, beyond the wisteria - it's a paved courtyard.
And we have no intention of having a garden, so I'm not sure what else I'd use a chainsaw for.

If it were oxyacetelyne gear, or an arc welder, or an angle grinder, then ok, but a chainsaw has this limited problem domain (woody things you don't want to keep), and most woody things I don't want to keep belong to other people. The woody things I have tend to be furniture, and I have a Significant Other with a track record of sawing through furniture with Leathermen, so having a chainsaw *anywhere* nearby is just asking for trouble, and piles of sawdust where my couches used to be.
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Re: Tools!

[simonb.livejournal.com]

We have no garden, really, beyond the wisteria - it's a paved courtyard. <snip> I'm not sure what else I'd use a chainsaw for.

Oh we don't have much of a garden either.. however when the cost of hiring a chainsaw for just a day was £60 or so, buying a chainsaw for all of £70 just made sense since I'd only have to use it once more in the tool's lifetime to have saved money. Since getting it I've used it probably 4 or 5 times, mainly helping out neighbours with tree pruning, etc... which reminds me, I need to use it to cut up a holly trunk a friend gave to us to process for her.

Hell, I've had some situations when woodworking when a chainsaw would've been really useful :)

Re: Tools!

[kitling.livejournal.com]

A lot of uni's have a toolshed thingy with stuff for hire very cheap. I remember latrobe uni's tool shed fondly... Maybe you need to speak to some student friends.

Also - I don't know if you recall the garden of york street - 'go into garden at own risk' A couple of SCA'ers with machete, a handsaw, and some good secaturs did a very good job of diminishing the canopy. There other other tool options.

Also - remember that if you buy a chainsaw - you also need the extra saftey equipment, gloves, goggles, training...that sort of thing. I've seen the mess a chainsaw can cause on a human leg....

That said - I think rabbit should get whatever she wants - and I'm willing to help do gardening with a variety of different tools :)

[bunnikins.livejournal.com]

My dad saw the quote today and said we should get another company to quote, because the rubbish removal part is fine, but the per-hour rate was somewhat on the high side. And he should know - he does handyman advice stuff for a living...