Stephen Henning wrote:

I found very few pole saws that are easy to use. Most will get stuck.

You got that right. I just bought what I thought was a pretty decent
one on sale at the hardware store, and the blade is too floppy to do
what it is intended to do. The rope lopper doesn't have enough
mechanical advantage for me except on anything but branches with very
small diameters. The higher you try to extend it, the harder it is to
manage the thing.

So what is it good for? Getting tree branches off rooves, for one
thing, and I'll find something else useful to do with it, try to
remember to stay away from electrical lines, and prevail on my son to do
the grunt work with it if it can be done. I should have returned it but
was too tired to trek back with that huge thing. I suppose I still
could take it back.