Video: HOOP clears portage trails with Silky KATANABOY and BIGBOY saws

Silky makes the best pruning saws, in my experience, and in many sizes. I've had a 14.2" curved blade Silky BIGBOY 2000 and a 9.5" curved blade ULTRA ACCEL for eight years and love both. I use the BIGBOY for larger stuff on my 11 acres, and usually take the ACCEL on canoe trips along with a short parang machete. Never an axe.

Silky's most powerful saw is the KATANABOY 650, which has a 25.6" blade. I think that's too long and heavy for my typical canoe trips, but here's a video of @HOOP (Glen Hooper) successfully using and praising the KATANABOY and BIGBOY for clearing big blowdowns on Canadian boreal forest portage trails.

I love those kinds of saw, used a katana big boy to cleat a big cedar that was across a portage right at chest height. Two cuts and it was out of the way. Much faster/safer than an axe.
Jim

I miss his videos. I have seen them all a few times.

They do make great saws.

Bob

Excellent. The last two trips I really could have used a saw. One of these. Could fit nicely into my kit.

Well done, Glenn; yet another instance of CTN separating its members from any loose cash. I'm gonna need another job to hang out with you guys.

(yeah, I'll almost certainly be packing a Katanaboy in August when I next visit NW Ontario. I too was debating the 500 or 650 but "Bigger is better", right?)