Thread: favorite silky?

Hi All,
Have been looking at getting a Sugoi, for those who own/use Silky saws, what is your favorite model and why?

Shaun

I prefer a straight blade this is my favorite
www.sherrilltree.com/Professional-Gear/Straight

Sugoi for bigger work, and Zubat for finer work.

Shaun, I use the Sugoi and it is a fine saw no doubt. But truthfully I almost wish I would have gotten the Zubat. The Sugoi is a large saw and I have found that it can be a little cumbersome while climbing. I tried wearing it with the leg scabbard when I first got it bit I found that the handle stuck out like a sore thumb above my knee when I climbed. It was constantly getting caught on something. I clipped it to my saddle with a carabiner and problem solved. It's a great saw but I think a smaller saw would be a little more handy.

Originally Posted by tree md

Shaun, I use the Sugoi and it is a fine saw no doubt. But truthfully I almost wish I would have gotten the Zubat. The Sugoi is a large saw and I have found that it can be a little cumbersome while climbing. I tried wearing it with the leg scabbard when I first got it bit I found that the handle stuck out like a sore thumb above my knee when I climbed. It was constantly getting caught on something. I clipped it to my saddle with a carabiner and problem solved. It's a great saw but I think a smaller saw would be a little more handy.

+1 on all that. I have it clipped cross draw on the saddle. A little off subject but I absolutely love the Longboy pole saw for climbing. I've broken one blade in the last two years.
Phil

Ibuki for me. I do however find it to be a little cumbersome but have gotten use to it in pruning. I really like it for wrecking you can't beat the speed in which it slices through the wood. When hiking up a pine or spruce of medium to smallish size I take that instead of a chainsaw and when up top pull up the saw to top.

The sugoi is a very aggressive saw. I prefer it when working in larger trees. I also have a smaller straight bladed one, Gomtaro maybe, I cant recall. For fruit tree restorations and highly visible residential prunes, it cant be beat.
To be honest, the only product that Silky makes I have ever not cared for is the pruner head for the hayauchi. I have used it maybe a dozen times and just cant get it to behave. The rest of their stuff is top notch.
Dennis

Zubat for me.... not to bulky not to small. if it wont do it in a timely manner, its chainsaw material.

the silky gomtaro is great cuts fast and leaves a good cut but what ever you buy you can't go wrong with silky

The Gomtaros must be a NZ thing, at least 90% of the arborists around here use them. I have a bunch of silkys of different models but always got back to the gomtaros generally. I get the Ibuki out occationally but not often.

I like the Sugoi very much in larger wood. It is quite aggressive and when pruning I will take a finer toothed 9 inch ARS dual strapped with the Sugoi and switch back and forth as needed. I find I save time using the Sugoi as I transition to the chainsaw way less.

Good to hear that folks like the Longboy, I have one on the way and am looking forward to using it.

Originally Posted by TimberMcPherson

The Gomtaros must be a NZ thing, at least 90% of the arborists around here use them. I have a bunch of silkys of different models but always got back to the gomtaros generally. I get the Ibuki out occationally but not often.

I just started using the gomtaro a couple months ago. I love that saw and have almost forgotten the sugoi. I found the sugoi was too big for the finer stuff that I want a handsaw for all too often. Gomtaro is much nicer to carry also. Cuts bigger stuff fine once I got used to it too.

All (and specifically Tree guy in OH),

Record straightener -
The Sintung pruner accessory is not a Silky product rather an (unauthorized) accessory designed to fit the Silky Hayauchi. This product was brought in by the previous Silky importer but is on the "delete when out of stock block" by the new importer. IWord from the field is that the smaller version is a better performer than the larger one.

And an FYI for the coming year -
Silky has an awesome new weapon in the works for 2011 that's sure to take the hort-world by storm. To many saw-hounds it's going to be a "why didn't someone think of this before" kind of product that, having tested a prototype myself, will be to sawing what the desktop computer was to the room-sized mainframe. Stay tuned.

Good for the glam but I can buy a new blade for my fanno for $14 or so.

Had a sugoi, Too big and the scabbard too heavy. Used a gomtaro, too flimsy of a blade. On my 3rd zubat blade now. Perfect for me....

Mike