Lightweight Saw

[Ross]

Your ticket silky

 

[treillw]

I want to get another blade for my pocketboy to cut bone specifically. Which would you recommend?

 

[Elk_eatr]

I’ve been using the Wyoming saw, a little heavier than most but extremely durable. Been going strong close to ten years now

 

[Pabst]

I like the corona 8" curved blade, 7.8oz, $17. Have cut through 6" dense desert juniper without any trouble.

Amazon.com

 

[darpoh]

UKI BUCK SAW • Suluk 46

Ultralight 12" buck saw

suluk46.com

 

[FurFinFeather]

I've used a number of Silky saws and for lightweight backpacking, its tough to be the super accel 210. It weighs the same as a pocketboy 170 but has two distinct advantages. First, the extra bit of blade length really helps and second, the kerf (blade thickness) is slightly thicker. It makes for a much more usable and durable saw than the 170 at the same weight. The other option is to purchase just the blade for a Silky pole saw. Wrap the handle in paracord and it only weighs about 4 oz.

 

[treillw]

UKI BUCK SAW • Suluk 46

Ultralight 12" buck saw

suluk46.com

This looks pretty slick. Wonder how it cuts compared to a silky.

 

[mtwarden]

here's a saw that a guy on bpl made, uses a Silky 170 blade- I've got the wood blade and an extra fine one for bone

2.7 oz is pretty darn svelte, my Silky 180 weighs 5.7 oz

 

[pirogue]

Silky F180

 

[darpoh]

This looks pretty slick. Wonder how it cuts compared to a silky.

There's a vid of it in action.

 

[Moserkr]

There's a vid of it in action.

I was looking for the lightest saw and found that too. Ended up buying it and it works great, just awkward to pack. But way overkill for 3” logs. I prefer 4-5” logs, or as big as can be fit, for longer burn times. 2-3 hour burns are easy for me, sometimes 4 hours if everything is just right. Good wood, hot coal bed, damper and air set perfect - its possible. With that saw I could build a small cabin lol.

 

[treillw]

I was looking for the lightest saw and found that too. Ended up buying it and it works great, just awkward to pack. But way overkill for 3” logs. I prefer 4-5” logs, or as big as can be fit, for longer burn times. 2-3 hour burns are easy for me, sometimes 4 hours if everything is just right. Good wood, hot coal bed, damper and air set perfect - its possible. With that saw I could build a small cabin lol.

What kinda stove do you have?

 

[treillw]

There's a vid of it in action.

How do you pack it usually? Looks like it might have to go on the outside of a pack.

 

[Moserkr]

What kinda stove do you have?

I have a tigoat 12/20 cylinder stove combo, and just ordered the remaining pieces to where I have 2 complete stoves. As you probably know the tigoat has a fairly small opening which hardly accepts large pieces of wood and doesnt allow the burn chamber to be stuffed full.

To solve those issue I built a custom door, and copied lite outdoors design. My stoves weigh less than any others Ive seen on the markets though. My 12” c-stove with 6’ of pipe weighs a mere 24oz. The 20” comes in right at 32oz. My custom door is a bit flimsy but works great. Planning on rebuilding it to a slightly thicker gauge ti next time.

As for the saw, I usually strap it to the outside of the pack or if theres room, inside away from my water bladder lol. Its pretty thin at least. In retrospect theres better things to waste money on, but if you want to shave every ounce and have a massively capable saw, then its hard to beat. Weighs 3.8oz on my scale.

 

[Gerthquake0107]

$36 Silky 170mm weighs 6.4 oz
$39Stihl 170mm weighs 6.18 oz
for what it’s worth

 

[Sled]

I have several silky saws, a couple corona, many broken gerber saws and a non descript pocket chain saw. The chain has come in handy when I didn't want to pack a folding saw. The corona saws have held up surprisingly well, the Gerber's are trash and silky is great.

 

[darpoh]

Looks interesting.

 

[mtwarden]

here's a saw that a guy on bpl made, uses a Silky 170 blade- I've got the wood blade and an extra fine one for bone

2.7 oz is pretty darn svelte, my Silky 180 weighs 5.7 oz

happy to report the saw works very well, at under 3 oz you're not going to notice it in your pack

 

[TFrank]

Silky is hard to beat.

The Laplander (6.7ish) I would think would not be bad for more than just wood cutting.

 

[Kevin_t]

I’ve used a silky and it works great and several have purchased however I recently purchased a Suluk so I could change blades and save an ounce or so and saw larger wood to make a camp stool of desired . I haven’t used it yet so I can’t report but it looks like a promising option that might best the silky and a Wyoming saw by a long ways


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