I had been wanting a battery operated pole saw for a while and the other day after reading as much as I could find about them I bought a 40 volt Lynx brand from Harbor Freight, it was about $165. Today we were putting up some new stands and cleaning out some old ones and I got a chance to use it. The dang little thing far exceeded my expectations. Vines, pine limbs, oak limbs and anything else we tried it had no problem cutting it. A couple of more guys in the club said they were going to get them one.