Chainsaws in the Wilderness

[idcwby]

https://www.idahostatesman.com/outdoors/article315713241.html

Hopefully they allow this in other wilderness’s now. Even with this we are still years away from being able to have trails like we use to.

 

[JimP]

I didn't watch the whole video but there are times that a chainsaw is the best recourse to clear a trail.

Without looking at the actual regulations I wonder how a electric one would do for this work? I have a friend who uses one and with a couple of batteries he does a pretty good job of cutting timber.

On my BC bear hunt the guide used a Swedish blade short handled axe and he could go through a pretty good tree in a very short time.

 

[idcwby]

The electric ones are probably still considered illegal because it states “nothing mechanical” here. That’s why you can’t ride bicycles in wilderness. I know that language is different in other wilderness’s.

 

[RICMIC]

Jim; I have been spending much of my last year cutting dead trees on my property (after a spruce budworm cycle), and have four different saws that I use. I primarily use the electric saw for limbing the lower branches before felling and bucking with a gas saw. The elec. is lighter and easier on my shoulders, BUT...a battery only lasts 45 minutes, takes four hours to charge, and the clear a trail with a lot of deadfall you would need many heavy spare batteries or a generator and charger.

 

[JimP]

I know on the electric saw that my friend will call it a day after both of his batteries die on him, he may work longer now since he also has a electric lawn mower that takes the same batteries.

He has a solar cell set up at his camp where he can connect them to charge the next day.