Kathy547's blog: My pole saw mishap😬😬

I am 49 years old. My husband, who is 10 years older, is on oxygen due to COPD. He also has a host of other life threatening illnesses & ailments, AND he has a spinal cord injury & takes a ton of pills. So, I do all the yard work. If I'm lucky, I'll get some family member to come do stuff I can't do. But most of the time someone will say "Oh, I'll come by & do that for you". So I'll put back some money to pay them. And they never show up. I'll end up spending the money on something but I still have the chore to do.

One of the chores was limbs too big for my lopers. I've never used a chainsaw & was sure I'd cut my foot off or worse if I did ever try to use one. I had one of those manual pole saws. You know, the ones that are orange & have a white pvc-looking tube that extends out? But I hate it. Every single time I touch it I feel like I put my hands in fiberglass or something. It itches, burns, & hurts all at once. Not sure if that makes sense but that's how it feels. And then I read up on electric & gas powered pole saws. We have 4 & 1/2 acres so electric really wasn't a good option unless I wanted to run extension cords everywhere. And I didn't know if I wanted to deal with one more thing I had to put gas in or a pull cord. And then I found out they came in battery powered🙌🙌🙌!!!!!

So we ordered one of the Ego brand pole saws from Home Depot. I was so happy when it came in. Like a kid at Christmas.

I have used it several times & LOVE it. Sometimes I wish I would have gotten the extension piece but to be honest, I don't think I would be able to handle it with the extension.

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I have gotten the saw stuck a few times but after praying, begging, crying, & finally getting my husband to strap on his portable tank & going out to help, I've gotten it unstuck every time🙌. A few days ago I was trimming up this holly tree so that I didn't get slapped in the face. Well, one of the limbs also had a limb going up & branching out. When I cut it, it got hung up. Its probably 15 feet up where its stuck. Grabbing the end & pulling does nothing. Its just hanging there. I've about decided to tie a chain around it & using my vehicle (I wish our old truck was running. Its a Ford😭😭😢😂😂😂).

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