I once had a rip saw (curved thing I got from Homemart). I found a long piece of bamboo, and used a couple hose clamps to connect the saw to it.
Pretty good for pruning smaller limbs.
My wife got a wild hair and decided to attack some kind of palm tree in the fron yard, as I was sitting on the porch, in the shade, sipping a beer. We'd been watch the Spartacus TV show/series.
Once she got a limb down, I told her she should come fan me with it like the slave girls do a on Spartacus. She threatened to come beat me in the head with it.????