Spreaderman, Measure the kerf your saw takes, then measure the thickness of your bar. A stuck chainsaw is harder to get out because the kerf is probably one and a half times the thickness of the bar and you have to drag that wide chain through an opening the thickness of the bar. The reciprocating saw blade takes a very narrow kerf relative to the blade thickness. maybe easier to remove from a piched limb but if there's a tree sitting on the blade that may be a different story. And I'm sure the blade is removeable.