Cheapest place to buy / hire a chainsaw

paulb369uk

As the title says,
I need a chainsaw to cut a tree down and also to cut some railway sleepers to size. I am not looking for anything fancy as I will only use it for the above items. Will it be cheaper to hire or buy one?
If you think buying would be the best option, any ideas where I could get a cheap one.

Thanks in advance

Paul

heather38

buy one here http://www.justlawnmowers.co.uk/pages/chainsaws/electric.htm for £65.99 or hss http://www.hss.com/g/3705/Chainsaw_15__Electric.html hire one for £57.40 for the weekend.

Woby_Tide

you also get £5 off if you do the HSS hire online, also check if you think it will take less than one day then they also do some 'same day saver' deals where you get 20% off if you return it the same day(not al equipment is in the offer), the £5 online is still valid too

tomterm8

IIRC You can't hire a chainsaw unless you have the right certificate. Frankly, unless you know what you're doing I would hire a person to come and do it for you.

Even the electric chainsaws can cut your arm off.

EDIT: when we wanted a tree cut down, we got in a chap from a local fencing company we'd used before, and got it down for £20.

bigpaws23

I find it really scary that you can *hire* a chainsaw - surely not??!!