[Bill Douglas]

I bought a Husqvarna 137 chainsaw a while a go to chop up a wind fallen Bluegum tree and I've become a bit obsessed with chainsawing.

The 137 is just a little fella but the amount of work it can do is phenomenal. My Mom made me promise I wouldn't ever use a chainsaw without doing a safety course first so I honored this agreement by doing a 2-day use and safety course. This was excellent and we used Stihl 260 chainsaws as part of our training. These machines have an excellent power to weight ratio and can work all day.

I bought a super efficient woodburner for the house and went in search of firewood. Although there is a beach 20 meters from home, beach driftwood is not good as salt deposits rust out the fireboxes. So instead of that I chopped up various logs that had washed down a river and dried out on the banks. I love trees so wouldn't actually cut one down but anything already down is fair game. The City employees have thinned out domestic pine forest trees next to a golf course so I've been chopping up the felled trees. No trouble with Police arriving as it's a fairly discrete spot and I suspect everyone thinks I'm a City employee.

What sort of chainsaw have you got and what sort of work are you doing with it?