In an orchard that has been left to run riot here in vt for 20 years or so you find yourself with quickly growing balsam and poplars growing up around and trhough the sloth- like apples , even when you cut them with a chain saw you then often have to use the winch to pull the little buggars from the entangled limbs , I frankly dont need a pole saw for my loader , but a 200 apple tree project with at least three trees to cut for each , and only weekends to do it , yeah i like the shear. besides every second Im on the ground tugging on something makes me wonder about that payment for the little orange moose that lives in my barn....