Silky Saws, and tooth size?

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Hey guys. Gonna pick me up a few silky saws this week. I'm looking at the Poket Boy for light weight hiking carry. And I also want the Big Boy for base camp work to go along with my Buck Saw. I see they have coarse, medium, fine, and extra fine teeth available. Wanted to hear from some experienced users as to which do the best field work. Not gonna be building anything that requires flush cuts, no decoration pruning going on. Just need good saws that cut fast and with as little effort as possible. I was thinking the coarse teeth would last longer and probably cut pretty agressive, but perhaps they require more work to get started. Maybe the medium teeth are the best all around. Love to here your thoughts.
 
What kind of wood will you be cutting the most? If all you are going to be cutting is green wood then get the coarse but if you plan on cutting some dry wood also get the medium.
 
I use the Silky Super Accel 210 with large teeth. Best saw I've ever used, bar none. It cuts green wood and dry seasoned wood equally well. It doesn't seem to care what I throw at it, it just chews it up.

Note that I use it mostly in Southern California. I don't know if the wood in your area is different, but here it cuts mostly pine and oak.
 
I am looking for a saw to put in my hiking backpack. The one that caught my eye was the Silky Topgun 240 with large teeth. Looks like this thread just sealed the deal, thanks.
 
Thanks guys. I was thinking the large teeth were the way to go for just general utility. I live in the southeast so where talking pine, oak, maple, sweetgun, dog wood things like that. But mainly the pocket boy will be more for utility than any actual serious sawing. It's too short to do much more than saw large branches and small trees... probably 3" in diameter at most I'd think. But that's great for getting a fire started all by your lonesome.

You can always buy extra blades too in smaller teeth configs.
 
I have the Pocket Boy 170 with the large teeth. Silky is as good as it gets. The Laplander is a winner two but in side by side testing, the sily edges out the others. Cuts so easy, it won't wear your arm out to cut a good size limb.:thumbup:
 
As of late, I have had trouble finding the Silky saws in stock any place. Any sources?

How about Blades?
 
Watching this thread with interest. My Fiskars from Walmart sucks. I need a Silky.
 
If you want a serious saw, the Silky is the way to go. I hate working my butt of for nothing which is what you do with many if not most pocket size saws.
 
udtjim said:
As of late, I have had trouble finding the Silky saws in stock any place. Any sources?

How about Blades?
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I got mine from Amazon quite awhile back, Jim, although it was actually shipped from another supplier. Even though it was listed as out of stock at the time, it only took them about a week and a half to two weeks to ship.

Just checked Amazon for you, and they list some as in stock, and some as out of stock. I'd say just go there and see what's what.

Best of luck.
 
I love the 170 but have often though about getting a bit longer one.

When the weather is nice here in North Dakota, I like to go out and cut walking stick material to putter with through the winter. Summer here is usually the fourth of July and one day on either side of it.;) Our seasons here are, Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter and the fourth of July.:)

You have to get out and cut fast.:eek:
 
I like the Super Accel 210 better than the Pocketboys. It has at least 40mm more cutting stroke and the blade is over 18% thicker---noticeably less flex. It uses a hardened aluminum frame rather than the steel frame of the Pocketboys so despite the larger size, it weighs only a couple ounces more.

I prefer the largest teeth available. I have cut very hard dried fruit tree wood and the largest teeth work fine. I bought a medium-toothed blade for use as a bone saw but haven't cut bone with it yet so I can't say much about it.

One source used to be www.knife-depot.com

DancesWithKnives
 
Meadows has little in stock. I spent several hours searching over the past week. There is very little in stock anywhere.
 
I've use a Silky Zubat with Large teeth for around camp and I have a Silky Oyakata folder with large teeth for hiking and hunting. Haven't found any thing they wont cut (bone, frozen meat, plastic, rope) when I purchased the Oyakata I went ahead and bought the medium blade for bone, well it's been 4 years and haven't used it yet. The Silky saws can also be used to start a fire. These saws are the best thing out there!
 
Can someone tell me what the advantages/disadvantages are of a curved vs straight saw blade? Im about to pick one up as well to keep in my mountain bike pack and am debating on models.
 
If you are doing overhead cutting (as with a pole saw or reaching with your extended arm), the curved blade permits you to get a better "bite" on the branch when you pull down. The teeth have a bit better angle down into the branch.

I like the curved blade on the Zubat 330mm fixed blade just fine but haven't had any complaints about the straight blade on the smaller Super Accel 210 folder.

DancesWithKnives
 
You can also order direct from Silky. They will include a mouth watering catalog with your order. Be strong, just drool.
 
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