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There are lots on the market.

I bought a Craftsman larger capacity one from Lowe's for $120 several seasons ago. 1.25" or something.

It's a bit heavy, built on a drill-type body.
2 hands for extended use.

A 3/4" capacity would be nice as a complement.

Clean cuts.

Way faster than manual secateurs or loppers.
 
Applying a little pressure to a branch so as to make tension wood on the blade side helps at thicker diameters.
I'm interested in a cord to the removeable battery as a separate part from the cutter and grip part. No need to shoulder that load in reaching positions for 200 cuts.

It's likely comparable to an 18v drill for 1 handing in a lot of awkward positions.

2 hands, less strain.

I will use my bypass loppers and seceteurs (sp? Hand pruners) a bit. Fine tooth handsaw a bit. 4" bar gta26 a bit, as a combo.
 
Over the last two days I have made about a half cord of firewood out of mostly fallen DF limbs and standing dead cascara and oldgrowth ninebark. In other words, a zillion cuts to make twigs into firewood :D.

But this stuff is here, and needs clearing up, and is nice for quick fires in the morning or evening during the woodstove shoulder seasons. I'd have to burn it in a pile otherwise, so there you have it.

Good thing I have plenty of time :). Oh, yeah...the little bitty MS200 rear handle is the bomb for this sort of task.
 
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Over the last two days I have made about a half cord of firewood out of mostly fallen DF limbs and standing dead cascara and oldgrowth ninebark. In other words, a zillion cuts to make twigs into firewood :D.

But this stuff is here, and needs clearing up, and is nice for quick fires in the morning or evening during the woodstove shoulder seasons. I'd have to burn it in a pile otherwise, so there you have it.

Good thing I have plenty of time :). Oh, yeah...the little bitty MS200 rear handle is the bomb for this sort of task.
Simple sawbucks are great. Cut a bunch of little stuff at once... I'm working on a design that will have all the cut wood fall into a wheelbarrow or cart.
 
Over the last two days I have made about a half cord of firewood out of mostly fallen DF limbs and standing dead cascara and oldgrowth ninebark. In other words, a zillion cuts to make twigs into firewood :D.

But this stuff is here, and needs clearing up, and is nice for quick fires in the morning or evening during the woodstove shoulder seasons. I'd have to burn it in a pile otherwise, so there you have it.

Good thing I have plenty of time :). Oh, yeah...the little bitty MS200 rear handle is the bomb for this sort of task.
An oak firewood customer friend of mine told me that a large branch round burns longer than a split of the same size. Interesting. I could see it catching slower due to bark.
 
Bark slows the catch of the fire. The surface area to catch flame is way lower.

Branches are/ can be dense. I've seen fir branch stubs sink in water.

We burn lots of round wood that comes off jobs with or without the chipper. I leave larger limbs for the top of a brush load in a trailer. Large limbs straps everything in.
When I get to the yard, I can buck many limbs at once in top of the brush or offload to the sawbuck for cutting later. Bucked firewood goes into a wheelbarrow to a stack...O.H.I.O.--- Only Handle It Once, as possible.

If desired, on the splitter, I can split one piece of round limbwood in half while a second round get quartered by the 4way. Good starter material to go atop kindling.
 

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