Originally Posted by
Toolmaker51
Agreed. To a beta-grade yard engineer, ground cutting might be attractive, hardly practical.
Kerf-binding slows things down cutting powered or manually. I cut adjacent to where a cut-off [buck] positions unworked remainder stable, and short end subject to gravity. Noticed long ago many branches not straight as power poles, or even in the video.
Bow bar chain saw seems just a gimmick, meant to attract beta-grade users, or gamma-grade customers.
Also why everything imaginable now carry safety warnings. Thank you, lawyers, underwriters, lobbyists. I'd rather they include applications; for Darwin Awards.