Thanks for all of your replies.
"Looking at it as in your going to bid it and wondering how your going to get it down? Again what saw is it? Your describing normal things a chainsaw will do when using it in my opinion."
I've been too busy with other jobs to go take a look, the job is for a friend, so it's mine if i want it. Just thought I'd throw this out there cause I experienced some hard kicks from er when I was plungeing and ripping some planks from a felled tree a couple months ago, hard enough that I switched from ripping to pulling. The saw is a echo cs600p.
"Out of curiosity, how big is this tree that you need to CLIMB with a 27" saw ???
Have never, even when young and 'relatively' foolish, ever used a 27" or larger saw anywhere but from a solid platform (ground, bucket truck, etc.)"
The Tree sounds like it's 4 feet for a good distance. I attached an image of me taking down a cedar the other week when the big saw came in handy.
"Kickback is an entirely predictable reaction when a chainsaw is used improperly. If you are experiencing kickback, you are using the saw improperly, its as simple as that. The thought of you climbing with that saw when you cant control it on the ground is spookie. Low pro and "safety" chains are desi gned to reduce the severitykickback, but the fact that it is happening in the first place has nothing to do with the saw or chain."
I'm a carver too, I use a saw in lots of ways your not "supposed to". I learned how to use a saw back in 2000 from a peeler/log home builder in eastern Idaho- mostly peeling logs-bumpin off stubs, an also some logging, and tending the log yard. I learned how to use a saw lefty and righty off the bat. His wife liked planters, so I learned how to plunge out planters with the 046. Sure it kicked, but nothing like plunging with the longbar I'm useing now. Maybe it's just me though, my saw of choice has been a much weaker cs-400 the last few years, I also have a few other small saws I use regularly.
Thanks again for your guys's input, I've been carving with a 20" toonie on the cs600 with no kickback issues. I swap out the longbar for big trees and also to rip boards for benches and stuff, I'll giver another go (rip some boards or make a planter) with some of your tips. Maybe I didn't have it reved high enough and got the entry angle all wrong.
Dan