get her a handyman….

I'll stick with my gas saw.

You sure are messy....

I have several gas Husqvarna saws. Just picked up a 350i saw with 2 batteries for the vehicle in case I got to cut my way into the cabin ... no gas smell in the vehicle, which Christine appreciates.

Milwaukee 14" top handle

top handles are generally harder to run they torque on you different , they are a lot more compact if you are hanging out of a tree but not overly user friendly your hands are much closer together.

What is she doing with a chainsaw in the kitchen anyhow?

I have several Stihl pro saws for a reason and dang sure don’t want my wife running one. Chainsaws are very unforgiving and absolutely don’t want her trying to learn to use one now.

I went past one of our neighbors this spring and saw the wife trying to cut up a tree top. I stopped and she had it pinched. I asked what her end goal was and went home and got a couple saws and took care of it. Told her to call anytime she needed help as she was clueless. It’s not just women, most guys don’t know how to operate or respect them.

Interesting take on it, crappiekiller. My chainsaw experience was pretty limited. I had limited experience with gas saws when I was a child (but lots of experience watching how others sawed), and then a bit of experience using a small battery saw. Until this past winter when we got several inches of ice dumped on us! I live 3/4 from a road (which was also impassable) with nothing but woods between me and the road. There were dozens of trees down between me and getting out of here. Most of my married life my husband did the saw work, but his current health prevents him from it now.

Thankfully, a friend on here took the time to tell me not just how to safely saw, but also walked me through making two dead chainsaws into one working one, as well as sharpening chains, etc. I did a lot of sawing for a week or two. Since then I've been sawing away as needed cleaning up the mess.

Just because someone, male or female, doesn't know how to saw is no reason that they cannot or should not learn how to, imo.

One of the best guys I ever seen with a chainsaw worked for me on the railroad.He was a Cree man in his 20s and could fell and limb trees blowdowns standing chicots,any size ,and twice as productive as anyone else working.
I asked him where he learned how to cut like that all day long and he said he grew up at moose River Crossing in a family of 26 and the kids all cut wood fished hunted trapped and snared and did whatever they needed to do.He started using a chainsaw when he was 7 years old cutting on the family wood road.The guy sure could handle a chainsaw.
The more you use a chainsaw the better you get.
I dont see why anyone cannot become very proficient with a gas chainsaw man woman or kid.
I think some people are just scared of a chainsaw.

Yep, asking opinions on chainsaws for a lady is just being scared.
Echo makes a fine 56V saw with a 18" bar. It cuts a pickup load of wood on a battery in fair weather.

You can cut your leg off with one of those things! Stay away from BB guns too!!!!

You'll put someone's eye out.

for new people to chain saws
this is not a bad place to start , no you aren't heading to BC to fall giant trees but physics works the same big and small.

it don't have to be 60 inches a breast to kill you , 10 inches will kill you stone dead if it hits you wrong.

https://www.worksafebc.com/en/resou...ideo-series/introduction-1-of-17?lang=en

Honestly one of these main issues is just cranking the thing , mainly because of her asthma. Three or four pulls and she's puffing on her inhaler

does you ms170 have the easy start?

with ezstart you pull slowly and it reaches a point and then the spring you just wound up starts the saw.

also technique in starting no saw should need more than a few pulls for a standard saw

if you have compression release , push that and slowly pull through 2-3 times , now with the choke on full one good pull it should pop off , then push in the choke and it should pop and run.

if it takes a lot of pulling I would be questioning what fuel you are using or how old it is.

that said if asthma is that bad , probably eclectic or phone a friend , got anyone who can just check on her after a storm or that she can call for an issue? don't yall have a bunch of family right close?

And barefoot to boot!