A petrol chainsaw with a sixteen inch bar, for felling, logging, cutting up storm damage and clearing overgrowth. It comes sharpened and fuelled and it will cut anything you sensibly put in front of it.
It is also the most dangerous thing we hire, by a distance, and we would rather say so than not. If you have not used one, or you are looking at a tree near a building, a road or a power line, ring and tell us about it before you book anything.
Getting it to the job
Hand carried at five and a half kilos, so access is never the issue. It travels in a boot with the guard on and the fuel separate.
What does need planning is the drop zone and what happens to everything you cut. A tree comes down once; the brash and the logs take the rest of the day.
The numbers
Chainsaw specification
Bar0in
PowerPetrol
Weight0.0kg
Getting it to the job
Carried in by hand, so access is not the question it is with the plant.
It still has to get to site: collect it from the yard in Etruria, or we will run it out with the rest of your hire.
The rest of the sheet
Hire type
Dry hire
Getting it there
Collect or delivered
Ring the yard if a figure matters to your job and we will check it against the machine before you travel.
What comes with it
Serviced, sharpened and tested between every hire
Fuelled and chain oiled, ready to work. No ticket asked for
Delivery to site, or collect it from the Etruria yard
Off hire from the day you ring, not the day it comes back
What you will need
Chainsaw trousers, boots, gloves, helmet and visor
Somebody else on site, not working alone
A clear drop zone and a way out of it
Dry hireCollect or deliveredServiced between hiresSame day when we have it
What people hire it for
The jobs it actually gets used on
Six of the jobs the chainsaw goes out on most. Keep scrolling and they stack.
01/ 06
Felling small trees
Garden trees that have outgrown the space, within what the bar and your experience sensibly cover.
02/ 06
Storm damage
Clearing what has come down across a drive, a fence or a field after a bad night.
03/ 06
Cutting up brash and limbs
Reducing what is on the ground into lengths the chipper will take or you can move.
04/ 06
Logging for firewood
Cutting fallen or felled timber to stove length.
05/ 06
Overgrown boundaries
Heavy growth along a hedge line or a boundary that has been left too long for loppers.
06/ 06
Before the stump grinder
Taking the stump down close to ground level so the grinder starts from a sensible height.
How it works
Hiring the chainsaw start to finish
01
Ring, message or send the details
Tell us the job and the dates. We will say whether it is in, when it is back if it is out, and whether it is the right machine for what you are doing.
02
Collect it, or we run it out
Pick it up from the yard on Brick Kiln Lane in Etruria, or we will deliver it to site. If you ring early enough and it is free, it can often go out the same day.
03
Ring when you are done
We off hire it from the day you ring rather than the day it happens to come back, and collect it from site if we delivered it.
Before you book
What you need to know
Chainsaw, in the yard on Brick Kiln Lane, Etruria.
01
The protective kit is not optional
Chainsaw trousers, boots, gloves, helmet and visor. Ordinary work trousers offer nothing at all against a moving chain, and a leg injury from a chainsaw is life changing rather than inconvenient.
02
Never on your own
Somebody else on site who knows you are using it and can get help. This is the one job in the yard where working alone is genuinely reckless.
03
Kickback is what hurts people
The top of the bar tip catching is what throws a saw back at the operator. Keep the tip out of the cut, use the chain brake, and never cut above shoulder height.
04
Plan the drop and your way out
Where it falls, what it hits on the way, and where you go as it goes. Then check nothing is above you that the fall will bring down with it.
05
Know when it is not your job
Near a building, a road, a boundary or overhead cables, or anything big enough to do serious damage, wants a tree surgeon. We will say so on the phone rather than take the hire.
06
Fuel and chain oil
It goes out fuelled and oiled. Watch the chain oil as well as the petrol on a long day, because a dry chain ruins the bar.
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The yard is on Brick Kiln Lane in Etruria, a couple of minutes off the A500, so most of Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme is a short run either way. Collect it yourself if you have something that can carry or tow it, or we will deliver it to site and collect it when you are finished.
We do not ask for one. We will ask what you are cutting though, and if it sounds like a job for a tree surgeon we will say so. Certification is a legal requirement for work-related use, so if this is for a job rather than your own garden, check where you stand.
Ring and ask when you book. What we will not do is hand over a chainsaw to somebody in jeans, so get that sorted before the day either way.
Comfortably up to a trunk well within the bar length, cutting from both sides. If you are eyeing up something considerably bigger, that is the point at which to ring rather than to push on.
That is a tree surgeon job, not a hire job. Anything that could reach a building, a road, a boundary or a cable needs somebody who does it for a living, and we would rather tell you that than take the money.
Get it booked
Tell us the job. We will tell you the machine.
Ring the yard and you get a straight answer on whether the chainsaw is available, when it is back if it is out on hire, and whether it is the right thing for what you are doing. If it is not, we will say so.
