Why in the hell would you need a chainsaw in commifornika? Everything we read and saw on TV about the recent fires said that landowners couldn't clear the brush or trees around their homes, thus preventing the fires consuming their homes if they could?
Ha! When we bought our house we had a lot of crap landscape that needed to go and it was a great excuse for me to purchase a chainsaw. Now I just need to move and justify buying a 362 24" to compliment my 025 18".
Ohhh, and Dennis, most place/neighborhoods that have homes that are in areas where wildfires are a possibility are required to remove most flammable vegetation from around their own property and if their homes butt up to a wilderness area the neighborhood association or even the homeowners are responsible to clear said brush "x" amount of feet from their property lines. Much of this requirement is for homes and neighborhoods that are situated on hillsides and slopes.
What you may be referring to is the liberal/progressive policies that do not allow the local forest to have the beetle-kill trees or any downed and dead trees, brush or other flammable vegetation to be removed or cut back for any reason whatsoever. They feel the removal of said "dead wood" would have a negative impact on whatever phucking insects or animals living in the forest. Liberal policies are a major reason for the severity of the fires. Also, if you have ever been in the Santa Ana wind conditions that Socal gets you would probably be shocked and how hard they blow how warm they can make the temperatures and how low it makes the humidity.
BTW, I'm guessing we have more trees in our neighborhood that all of Western Oklahoma has, plus our trees don't permanently bend to the North.
