I bought this mainly to saw off some palm fronds and the seeds it was dropping off in my pool. The pole is well put together, but at 26' long it gets kind of unwieldy. The first thing I did was immediately losing the blade in the palm tree after sawing for awhile. I had no problem with that actually, because the blade that came with it was just okay. I went to Lowes and bought a better blade for $15 and it cut a lot better. Still not an easy feat at 26' long, but eventually was able to cut the palm frond down. As you can tell from this review, I mainly bought it for the pole