Handsaw preference

Are they topped or drop crotched?

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Am I the odd man out? I'm right handed. I keep my handsaw on the right, and my 200 on the left.
 
I'm left handed, sort of. So many things I do are equally well left or right.

The Zubat is strapped to my right calf. If I had a light saber, I'd clip it there. Draws and stows with either hand.

I'm having to pull the chainsaw from the right side, which I find inconvenient at times. I have found stowing and tending it from either side to be equally [in]convenient. I wonder if this alternating sides is being gentler on my body, and maybe physiologically a close second to tethering it in the rear.
 
Butch, Nah, you're not weird. I'm a righthander. Handsaw on right chainsaw on left. Sometimes I use a leg scabbard for the handsaw. I have been known to climb with 2 handsaws and no chainsaw on some pruning jobs ( it isn't so much a need for 2 tooth sizes/blade types although I can switch depending on need -mostly it is a "one to use and one to lose" philosophy while working alone-it sucks to have to reclimb a tree because you spilled your saw out of its scabbard.
 
I do the same as stumper. Usually 2 saws depending on the size of the tree, one on the leg and one on the saddle on the right and the chainsaw on the left. I perfer to run my life lines to the right and this keeps them away from the chain.
 
looked like poll was for lefties only, but i voted anyway.

my new Corona, finest saw around, on right hip. Scabbard has pouch for hand pruner, of course. Will try scabbard on leg again when someone shows me how to keep it from slipping around or interfering with knee joint.
 
Does anyone else think that a hand pruner is overkill in a tree? I keep a Sugoi on my right leg (right-handed). I also have a Zubat on the truck for when I'm feelin' frisky.

Hand pruners are for shrubs.
 
If a knife is on the list,this can be met with a hand pruner.

To make a clean cut on a small branch they are essential. Even if the climber is only told to get 2">, little stuff can get snapped. Leaving bigger-than-needed infection courts in shredded stubs is bad work. imo they are way more essential than slings and throwlines.

Let's not even talk about bladders--"No discussion"--we were all born with water storage organs. I think td brought that up just to make the rest easier to sell.
 
I'm totally with Guy Mayor on the secateur thing. I wouldn't go up a tree that is to be pruned or reduced without my beloved Felco's and Silky combo!! Its such an easy way to dial in the shape and much less likely to cut your finger tips when pruning the finer growth back or nipping off newer broken epicormic growth.
 
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I'm also wondering, handsaw on saddle or leg scabbard? Advatages disadvatages?

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The only advantage I ever found with a leg scabbard is the extra chance to cut my climbing rope.
 
The main problem with the leg scabbard is that it allows the handle of your saw to get caught up in small branches.

Sometimes the small branches pull the saw out of the scabbard. Silky Sugoi is terrible for this problem.

Also the leg scabbard gets in the way when clambering through branch networks and tight branch unions.

At least when it is by your side you can manouver it easily.
 
I am right handed, Silky and Felcos in scabbard to the left, saw on the right. My lanyard is on the right too...gets pretty dinged up by the chain.
 
i use a silky sugoi. Hangs on the left. I'm equaly right and left handed but if it hangs on the right i find that the sugio's blade is too long to get it out of the scabbard.
I really don't like the scabbard on my leg, i drop the saw numerous times in every climb.

Greatz frank
 
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