On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 07:36:15 +0000, penance wrote:

The only exception to that is top handled saws, these may only be
purchased by someone who holds the relevant rope and harness cert.

Yes.
And a great pity it was that this was introduced.
It meant that I could not replace my excellent little top handled
Danarm (that did everything that I needed) when the original got
beyond repair.
I had to replace it with a much larger much more dangerous two-handed
Sthil:-(