Owen Fitzgibbon is the Editorial Director and Safety Reviewer at Gas Powered Chainsaw, covering safety gear, hand tools and accessories, and reviewing the whole site for accuracy and honest, safe recommendations. With fifteen years editing outdoor and buying-guide content, Owen owns the standards on PPE, safety claims and disclosure, and keeps the site’s advice grounded in manufacturer instructions and recognized safe-use guidance.
Owen Fitzgibbon is the Editorial Director and Safety Reviewer at Gas Powered Chainsaw, responsible for the standards the whole site is held to and for the guides on safety gear, outdoor hand tools, and accessories. They have spent fifteen years editing outdoor, DIY, and buying-guide content for consumer audiences, since 2011, and their job is twofold: cover the unglamorous but critical gear, chaps, helmets, gloves, hearing and eye protection, bar oil, files, and storage, and make sure every other guide on the site is accurate, honest, and safe before a reader acts on it.
The reviewer half of the role is where Owen spends much of their time. Every guide, whether it is about a chainsaw, a mower, or a pair of loppers, passes under their eye for the same things: are the recommendations honest, is the safety framing correct, is anything overstated, and would a first-time buyer come away better informed or just sold to. They designate themselves the accuracy backstop on purpose, because a buying guide that is confidently wrong about a safety point is worse than no guide at all. When a claim cannot be supported, it does not ship, and when a product has a real drawback, the guide says so.
Owen’s own subject area is the gear people are most tempted to skip, and that makes it the gear they write about most carefully. Chainsaw chaps and leg protection, forestry helmets and face shields, cut-resistant gloves, and hearing and eye protection are not accessories in their view; they are the difference between a scare and an injury. They cover how this equipment works, how to size and care for it, and why it belongs on before the saw starts, in the same plain language the rest of the site uses. The accessory guides, bar and chain oil, fuel and mix, sharpening files, and storage, round out the practical side of keeping tools safe and reliable.
Because so much of the site sits near genuinely dangerous tools, Owen owns the standards that keep its advice grounded. They track OPEI, ANSI, and OSHA safe-use guidance and read manufacturer instructions closely, then make sure the site reflects them rather than folk wisdom. They are also firm about the limits of the site’s authority: the guides are general information to help people choose and use tools more safely, informed by reputable sources, and they are not a substitute for hands-on training or professional advice. Owen is careful that the site never implies a certification or testing capability it does not have.
Independence and disclosure are Owen’s territory too. They enforce the site’s rules that recommendations are never for sale, that affiliate relationships are disclosed clearly and close to the links they apply to, and that no product star-ratings are invented or borrowed from sources that do not license them. That last rule matters: the site shows no fabricated ratings, because a made-up number is a lie to a reader spending real money. The standard Owen holds every page to is simple to state and harder to live up to, accurate, safe, honestly recommended, and clearly disclosed, and it is the standard they review against every day.
Our guides are general information, informed by reputable manufacturer and industry sources, and are not a substitute for hands-on training or a qualified professional's judgment. See our editorial policy, team and about page.
