It never fails that come Christmas season, when I’m thinking about gift ideas for family and other special people in my life, I discover a perfect gift for me. And I buy it.
The most recent gift that I gave myself will greatly impact my 2025 whitetail season and many others to follow. In fact, even though I haven’t used it in the whitetail woods yet, I know it will be a critical piece of deer gear going forward.
I’m talking about a Vevor Manual Pole Saw/Pruner, specifically model RZYLG-2. This is a two-in-one tool; you can use it to saw branches or snip them with the pruner. The pruner features a pulley design to cut; you operate the pruner by pulling on the included nylon rope.
And here’s the best part: This tool comes with eight poles, and when all of them are used together, it measures 27 feet in length. The durable poles are 1.26 inches in diameter, and they connect with double-lock joints. Of course, you don’t have to use all eight poles, so the overall length is up to you.
I know from decades of experience cutting shooting lanes that the vast majority of the time I’ll need only half of the poles. If the tool is set to about 13 feet long, and I’m holding it at shoulder height, then I cut/prune problem branches at about 18 feet. In almost every case, this is high enough for my various treestands, but it’s reassuring to know I can add pole sections to reach any branch that must be removed.
The Vevor tool comes with two different saws: a 13-inch saw attaches to the pruner so you can saw or snip depending on branch size; the other saw is 17 inches long and is used without the pulley-style pruner. The larger saw can also be used without any of the extension poles to cut lower branches and trees.
As I said, I haven’t yet used the Vevor saw/pruner in the woods, but my son did put it to work recently on a backyard maple tree. I lost the top 12 feet of the 35-foot tree during an intense thunderstorm a couple of months ago, but the broken section (about 4 inches in diameter) didn’t fall to the ground because it didn’t completely detach. The "hinge" holding the busted section was 20 feet off the ground, and there was no way I was risking life and limb by climbing the maple to cut the remaining wood. More on that later.
When brainstorming Christmas gift ideas for a landowner friend, I remembered that his pole saw/pruner was so battered and bruised to no longer be useful in the whitetail woods. As I shopped on Amazon, I discovered the Vevor Manual Pole Saw/Pruner. (I paid $91.71; free shipping.) And when I saw its overall length, the lightbulb went off in regards to my backyard tree problem.
Speaking of Amazon: In general, the number of ratings and number of stars is a decent way to decipher a product’s quality. This Vevor tool (at the time of this writing) has nearly 1,500 ratings, and it scores 4.5 out of 5 stars. Those are impressive numbers.
The Vevor box will include:
- eight poles
- 13-inch saw/pruner combo
- 17-inch saw
- spare 17-inch saw blade
- safety sleeve for the larger saw
- carry/storage bag
As for my maple tree problem: My 19-year-old son unboxed the Vevor Manual Pole Saw/Pruner, quickly assembled one of the 17-inch blades into the dedicated pole section, and also assembled the 13-inch saw/pruner device. It was super simple.
Next, he screwed together seven of the eight poles, then attached the 17-inch saw to the top. I watched from my office window as he carefully positioned the saw blade in the hinge area high in the maple, then he slowly began sawing. A couple minutes later, the 12-foot top section of my maple came crashing to the ground. Nice!
I know for a fact that this backyard tree test will be far more demanding than trimming much smaller branches in shooting lanes. I look forward to many years of work in the woods with my new Christmas gift.
Check out the 50-second YouTube video below that shows you how the poles fit together, as well as how the saw/pruner and larger saw connect to the poles. IMO, it’s a smart system.
