Those saws cut so effortlessly I just ordered a big boy outback edition I’m waiting on it’s delivery very excited

Wishing you and Julia a merry Christmas and new year free of illness..

Haha! I hope you do get a nice kickback from Silky. Very interesting and useful video, and thanks as ever for taking the trouble.

Mine is the Big Boy…does everything well. Climb a tree, hold on to a branch with your left hand & cut deadwood with your right. Super tool. No gas or oil.

Absolutely love this review!

Thank you very much . Very very easy to understand the difference of each Kile Aji ( Cutting taste) . Great . Feb. 20th 2023 Mon. 08:49 am from Yokohama City Japan

lovin the 4:3, keep it up bro

Good comparison, thank you!

Brilliant demo Stephen, spoilt by abysmal camera work - bin it! I counted the number of strokes and the elapsed time for each cut. The comparison between the saws would be fairer it you had stated what the blade is in the bow saw. There are two patterns made: Peg teeth for seasoned or dry wood and Raker teeth for green wood. The Jap blades have a very sophisticated pull cutting raker tooth design but Silky is not the only brand. I have some curved 14 inch pruning saws etched with the Echo brand which cost me £12.00 which were probably made in the same factory as Silky brand. I can see no difference in tooth geometry. The Japanese are the masters of multiple branding one product to swamp a target market across all price ranges. The Citizen digital watch movement is the classic example - available in cases costing retail from £3.50 to £500.00 or more. Following the 1987 storm I removed with a 36 inch Sandvik Type 23 raker tooth bow saw a 5 leader Beech tree that fell across a B road in the Chilterns. It took me 120 minutes because the bow limited the depth of cut but I would not use my chainsaw because I will never use a chainsaw alone. There were many incidents reported where good samaritans working alone damaged arms or legs or suffered severe facial injuries from kickbacks. Some lost their life. I have now retired from conservation work after 17 years on nature reserves in the Chilterns since I retired from business at 65, planting new woods and clearing Hawthorn scrub to do so. Most of the time I was working alone so the Type 23 blade was my trusty ally. Regards, Peter

Started using Silkys a couple years ago. The way they taper from the teeth to the spine keeps pinching to a minimum which takes the workload way down, it's a huge difference.

Hi I have watched this a number of times. I have used Silky saws for many years. I love them, I am looking at the katanaboy. But a big but is from what I have seen on many reviews is the Big Boy 2000 XL dose a very good job and cost half the price. I mite go for that. Save some cash.

Very informative. Thank you.

Thanks for this video!

very interesting, do u find you get quicker growth of the thinner shoots by just taking some shoots instead of clear cutting the whole crown ?

Hello Good saw demo. By the way if you have deer there you will need to protect the hazel regrowth this year. Thanks

Pruning saws over shears does not damage the bark and fracture the calcium which result in faster wound healing

Stephen, hello, can you point me to your video where you feature the wasp trap that you made, thanks. I've had wasps eat my nectarines and I'd like to trap them.

Darn the hawthorn

Say Heah Stephen, Cheers. I have the Silky Bigboy2000. But for what I do in the bush, I can't imagine carrying that Silky Katanaboy500. Oh, I think it's super, but it's a Tank and it just doesn't seem like it could cross the bridge over into Bushcraft. I think it's way too big, well because the Bigboy2000 works good and carries Ok in the Scabbard. Dilly Dilly.,,.p

Have you ever tried a Corona? We've found that they out perform the Silky. Maybe they are not available in England?

Stephen, for as long as you have been a KZfaqr, when will you adjust to a better camera. Even an i-phone has full screen high definition video with stabilization.

hello Stephen Hayes i need some sayone

did you ever get a splinter in yourself that took months to remove? I have one in the palm of my hand since October 22. i went to a doctor and the moron put no effort into it and after 3 minutes said he can't get it.