I seem to have bough a chainsaw. Oops.
The FiL had a big laylandii hedge to cut back in order to put up a fence and it was reported to have really thick branches he had been doing one by one with a hand saw.
Opportunity for new power-tools identified, and off we go. As it turned out the hedge wasn't really that bad and my hedge cutter handled 99% of it (top tip if you have hedges of any size get a hedge cutter as well as a trimmer - wish I had known this years before I knew there was a difference) and I lopped off the remaining bigger branches with a pruning saw.
Never mind now I have a chainsaw to play with tomorrow. I have some apple that's been waiting about 10 years to be cut into smaller bits ...