I've only used it once, fully extended, due to several rainy days in a row. Cut through a 4” limb in 10-12 seconds. The weight of the saw does a lot of the work. Once it's laying on top of the limb, hit the button and it's cutting. FAST. (The same limb would have taken me several minutes and a LOT of sweat to cut down with my old manual pole saw) It is awkward when fully extended. Probably much easier to handle without the final 3' extension. Easy to attach to the pole. ONE hand-tightened screw secures it to the pole. ONE hand screw to check/adjust the chain. Bar/chain oil fill is right on top. I guess the only drawback so far is the inability to use it in wet conditions. I have close to 1/2 acre and I was able to reach most with a 50' extension cord.

Cuts great. Easy to assemble. Chain lossens very quickly

my husband loves it. very good quality. does a hreat job

Very strong and long lasting. Put together well very sturdy!

How great is this saw, fantastic just the greatest little saw.

The chain was on backwards. Had to fix in order to use. Chain continuously comes off. Can hardly even get started cutting before its off again. Saw another post that says this gets better....so perhaps it will.

Worx great!

Works great

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I bought this chainsaw on a stick with some amount of trepidation but when I put it together plugged it in and started cutting branches of at least 6 inches in diameter and many at that I must have cut about 1/2 a cord of branches first on the pole then alone on the ground cut and stacked just to verify the amount cut in just a few hours,If this saw sees longevity then I have certainly made the purchase of a lifetime in this saw

Bought this today and put it to use trimming out the bottom of a "weeping" slippery elm tree that had gotten way out of hand in the front yard. Beautiful tree, but a lot of maintenance that I had been putting off. I think my job was about the maximum you would want to do using this saw, lots of 3 inch limbs about 6-12 feet off the ground. For some of the limbs the extension was actually too long. The only things you need to be careful about are checking the chain tension about every 10 minutes, I dropped the chain once, and keeping it full of oil. The directions said to use the bulb to oil the chain, but mine has no bulb. It must be self-oiling because after you've had it running for an hour or so, its an oily little beast. You may also need a small funnel, as the oil opening isn't that big and the oil comes by the quart. Overall, I used it pretty hard for about 3 hours and it used about half a quart of oil. Once all the limbs were down, the real the work began. We've had a lot of rain lately and the tree was pretty wet. This saw worked better than the guys at the store said it would and it has a 3-yr warranty. Perfect saw for home-owner use.