30-Inch Western Log Saw - For Wood Cutting, Lumber, or Timber - Professional Arborist Hand Wood Saw - Branch Cutter Pruning for Trimming, Gardening, or Logs by Kings County Tools

Love this saw, great quality and much cheaper than a big silky!, very sharp out of box.

So, like another reviewer said, set the teeth wider (15 thousands of an inch), sand off the poly coating on the sides, and get yourself a westward 6" cant saw file to sharpen it with (what the manufacturer recommends). There are many videos on YouTube on how to do this. Paul Sellers has good videos on tuning a lance tooth crosscut saw. Watch the videos, tune it, and go through 7" of chestnut log in 20 seconds with minimal effort. Needless to say I highly recommend this saw.

Overall a good saw: however it needs some work to function properly. As with most saws the factory teeth set is too narrow and the teeth need to be set by hand. Also the saw arrives with a thin poly coat that needs to be sanded off or it will bind when cutting.A little elbow grease and it will be ready for use.

Update:Finally finished!This saw is nearly as sharp as the day I bought it after planking a 7 foot log of aspen that was 7.5" thick!Someone said it is not a pull saw, but I disagree and believe it is both.I prefer pulling to keep a straight line and it did just fine.---------I took advantage of the wood from one of my aspen trees and started planking a 7 foot section starting at the trunk by hand and found out aspen is not as soft of a wood as I thought.I bought this saw after burning up 4 12" Sawzall blades in less than a couple of hours.I was able to get 2 feet of plank cut on both sides done in half the time and cut straight correcting the cut I already hacked out with my Makita.There is no wobble and it does not have the tendency to dig due to the offset teeth which does product a little wider cut than traditional thinner flat tooth blades. Just a nice smooth, straight cut that you can easily maintain down the length of the log with a couple of delicate and precise pulls every now and then. After 6 hours of use, it is as sharp as ever. My arm may fall off quicker than the blade will dull out.Planking by hand is a lot of work. It takes time and patience no matter what kind of blade you use so pack a lunch because you are going to be there a while but this saw will make it much much easier and for the price, you can't beat it.Comparable 30" blades (which were not many) are more than double the cost which I was not willing to spend on something that I had no idea would work.I do not regret buying the Kings County Tools 30" Bull saw one bit and will get many years of use out of it.Thank you for a great product!

Very good saw, cuts well and is very sharp.

While sitting inside my house dry and put away, it developed rust spots. As much as I paid for this saw I would expect a higher quality metal. It does cut well and fast though

I got this to saw through raw timber. I had a 6 foot long, 16 inch diameter tree trunk that I wanted to rip cut/cleave in half, the old fashioned way. I started off using a regular hand saw, and based on my initial progress, estimated that it would have taken me > 30 hours to get through. So I realized I needed a saw with more bite. This saw fit the bill. It took me only a few hours to get as far with this saw as I did after days of work with the regular hand saw. It is like a chainsaw powered by you.What I like about this saw is that it is beefy. It will flex, but not too much. With the hand saw, I was seeing flex that would cut differently on each side of the trunk. But with this saw, the cut was perfectly straight across the entire diameter. The teeth on this saw remove a lot of material with each pass, and they are very sharp right out of the box. I did not need to sharpen them.

Good saw all in all , doesn't hold a sharp edge as long as I would like. Cutting mainly red fir in the pnw region.