Since
@ducks4you brought chainsaws up I have to ask, does anyone have or used an electric chain saw? I doubt that I want to use the gas saw DH has, but there are plenty of places where I would feel comfortable trimming branches if I had an electric one. I did buy a battery powered tree-saw that has worked well although the battery is no longer holding a good charge.
Yes! My very first chainsaw was an electric one made by Remington. My husband unwittingly bought it for me when we lived on property without so many trees, and I was very reasonable and only pruned what was necessary.
THEN, we bought acreage with WOODS!
He told me to leave them alone.
But they were terribly crowded.
He had to go away for a few weeks....well, lets just say the dust in the driveway had barely settled when I got my longest extension cord and my little chainsaw out! I got my boys to haul and stack the trees in a cleared space up by our road and we worked our tails off every day for about a week. We got the trees directly behind the house cleared enough to swing a cat,
(a stuffed one natch!) and it was ever so much better that when he got home he agreed they might need to be thinned after all.
Somehow he forgave me for not consulting him before playing Paul Bunyan because he has since bought me a gas one and I'm no longer restrained by the length of an extension cord.
Sorry, got a little excited there, but yes, electric, Remington 14" bar. Ran like a champ for years.
dh did that last weekend after trying to trim off the branches from the large maple we took down during the week. i don't recommend using one on large trees. small to medium sized trees are fine.
So far, we have about 130 ears of corn.... minus what we ate yesterday 
