Silky Saw Pocketboy 170 | Folding Saw | Field Review

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Krik of Black Owl Outdoors takes a look at the Pocketboy 170 by Silky Saw. Like the ever popular Bahco folding saw, the Silky Saw packs a punch for such a small saw, but does so with a significantly thinner blade. While there are reports of the Silky Saw breaking during use, and even Krik noticed significant flex, it seems to be a clashing of improper form and delicate engineering. Due to thinner blade, the saw almost acts as a wire saw with more might.

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hey what's up Turtles Creek here with black outdoors today I wanted to do a video talking about us all been using for a little while now which is the silky saw pocket boy 171 silky Sol's website this is going for $30.95 with that it also comes with this plastic carrying case which works well for storing device this will actually fits into the leather sheath I made for the bahco laplander folding saw so that's really convenient I use it for that pop top here you know nothing fancy but it is what it is so some of the specs on this pocket boy 170 are the 170 referring to the blade length 170 millimeters a 17 centimeters which is about 6 and 3/4 inches this is 1095 high carbon steel chrome plated definitely decent mount of flex to the blade because it is tapered only cuts on the pool only cutting on the pool when I will demonstrate that and the reason why I got the 170 in general is because it's about the same blade length as the Baco and in addition to different blade lengths up leaving at a 130 mil blade length as well there's also about 4 or 5 different teeth configurations or sizes of teeth within the Sookie salt line and this is the large teeth which is about seven teeth per inch which is right around or if not the same as the Baco so I sort of got this for the intense intention ova comparing those to Saul's this red rubberized handle right here which is about five and a half inches about 14 centimeters the width right here the widest part of the saw is right down here stored in the palm swell if you will and that's a little over an inch right around an inch two and a half centimeters which is right here does not lock closed it's okay there's a decent amount of friction so I'm not really worried about that and I'm going to be storing this in a sheath all the time when I'm using it so I'm not worried about it not locking closed because there's a you know Dees amount of friction see the lanyard hole here teeth are not protruding through at all nice little feature I don't have an on there but you could add one if you desire overall length of this puppy is right over 15 inches and one of the reasons why I wanted to try this saw was because of one it has a locking opening position a single right here I'm doing this is the sort of lever if you will snap first position and also open that up and it locks into a second cutting position and this just allows you could enter get to some oddly positioned or placed limbs if you're trying to cut underneath something do an undercut it just sort of increases its versatility that little bit a little bit more having the second locking position while it's open both all that being said let's cut some different types of wood and see how it performs

this is tulip poplar about maybe inch and a half inch and 3/4 in diameter see how it goes through this dead dried wood

so I was cutting some tulip poplar right now with this and it did fine did well enough really hardwood you know this teeth size is really meant for pruning or green wood which I'm going to show you know in a little bit but regardless it did well enough and some of the trickiest parts of for cutting dead wood or trying to buck dead wood down for firewood or whatever some of the hardest part wire on the forest is is keeping it stationary and getting it you know sort of secured to give a really consistent and sort of accurate test of how well the saw cuts but that's just part of being the forest and anyways at this point it's going to keep cutting get some hemlock now and see how that cut some dead hemlock pretty cool looking growth rings that did pretty well like I said these teeth aren't really meant for for dry dry hardwood but it did really well and it definitely takes a little bit of a different thought and technique when you're only cutting on the pool this is Japanese maid and I sort of always been sort of interested in trying out Japanese pulls off you've seen this or like hand carpentry people use Japanese pole saws which look a lot different like this but still just on the pull stroke it's a lot different because this has a little bit of a now a little bit that's a decent amount of flex to catch my breath decent amount of flex on the bleed get be really thoughtful that you're not just going in just hammering away at this you know you really got to be thoughtful with your stroke and your attention because you can probably bend this pretty easy if you're not thoughtful but the pull stroke works works to your advantage allow your back muscles but that being said now we're going to be wearing some green wood there's a hemlock over here that came down in a recent windstorm yeah that's sort of blocking the trail we walked down to film a lot so I'm going to head over there see how it handles handle some green wood you

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so going through this green would definitely you feel a lot more material getting moved than with the dead wood that makes sense because this large sized teeth configuration that's where it's meant for pruning pruning green wood you probably saw some flex going on when I was sawing I guess reasons being the one was I was switching to my left hand because I'm really big into trying to get a lot of balance with my body get coordination where my left side of my body because I'm naturally right-handed with that being said sometimes my form is not that great and you probably saw when I switched my left hand that try to do that and also part of that skin kind of weird sometimes filming things on camera I just feel a little goofy but nonetheless it worked really well through Greenwood way way better and Phil efficiency sake then going through the hardwood and the dry the dry hardwood but that being said it's a nice saw is it going to replace the Baco I'll leave that for another video but all in all it's a nice little compact saw a nice little compact saw happy with it it's comfortable

I really like the two-way opening locking positions Chau and Chau yeah oh no good sauce so let me know your impressions what you think about this all if you have it leave a comment remember - you know like subscribe share all that with black owl try we're trying to you know grow get as much support as we can this is Craig signing out back outdoors later Turtles you