I have a new best tool

The weather suddenly got nicer than it has been for way too long. Sunny weather and the mess outside is more compelling than the mess inside.  My friend who takes no prisoners came over to help and advise me on lilac pruning.  Apparently there is very little to it really, it is a matter of removing all the old growth and the dead branches and then letting the tender green whips grow up and out,
OK, so you take something that looks like this

and then after you are finished it looks like this

 

The amount  of brush this generates is amazing

That is just one lilac's worth of branches, and that isn't all of it.
Anyway, the tool that does this with a minimum of fuss and bother is a Sawsall.
It's my new friend.