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Most of the chainsaws on our place rotate in and out of the shop depending on the job. This one doesn’t. It lives on the tractor, and it’s the one I actually reach for most.
It’s a 25.4CC top-handle gas saw with a 12-inch bar — small compared to what you’d want for felling anything serious, but that’s not what it’s for. This is the saw for the stuff that comes up mid-job: a branch down across a gate, fence line brush that got away from you, clearing a path before you can even get the tractor where it needs to go. Small, light, one-handed, always within reach.
At 9.26 lbs it doesn’t wear out your arm the way a full-size saw does when you’re using it in short bursts all day instead of one long felling session. That weight is the actual reason it stays on the tractor instead of going back to the shop — a bigger saw would end up parked more often than it’s used, and then it’s not there when you need it.
It starts like you’d expect from a small 2-stroke — a few pulls when it’s been sitting, easier once it’s already run that day. The fuel tank is small (0.24 qt) so it’s not a saw for a long cutting session, but for the quick in-and-out jobs it’s built for, that’s not really a problem.
It’s not a replacement for a real felling saw, and I wouldn’t want it to be. It’s a different tool for a different job — the one that’s already in your hand before you’d have even finished getting a bigger saw off the shelf.