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Handy new little chainsaw I tried out today...
William81
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I have a larger battery powered chainsaw but trying to cut around fences gets a little tricky. This little item worked great. I was surprised how large of trees I could get though with the 8". Lightweight, but well made. I cut down and cut up over 15 smaller trees and the battery had not run out yet. The sad thing is I now have no excuse for not getting out there and clearing fencerows or trimming trees around the yard…
If you are looking for something for trimming around the house and do not want to drag out a large chainsaw, this might do the trick for you too….
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I'm with you William except that I went with Ryobi.
I have a 40V Ryobi.Much easier and quicker than getting out one of the other saws,but there are times when the big gas saws have to come out.
Mine is a Stihl 12" 36V does everything a gas saw of the same size. you don't have to start it.
Battery tools have improved greatly and advancing fast
A few years ago my oldest son bought a Milwaukee battery powered chain saw ( we have other Milwaukee tools also all are d great
As for the chain saw I was expecting the worst but i ended up truly amazed at it they did the home work on it
No Gas no oil no worry about starting even my wife uses it
It has a pole saw attachment
For around our place it works great no complaints
we have a few larger Tres but have dome old gas saws if they need to come out of retirement
The problem is that the quality is CRAP. So many plastic parts in that (and the other Dewalt Chainsaws.)
I looked into them…….if you use it once in a while, it'd be ok. But for the $300…….not going to last with a lot of use. :(
Merc
Always a ray of sunshine………..
Looks good, sounds good. Dewalt has done good by me.
I will go with light duty around the yard use would I want to put it to actual hard evey day work I am sure it will fail
Serial killer special. Hail to the king.
I have a Kobalt 80v from Lowes. Great little chainsaw. Now, there is a Kobalt 20v and 40v. I don't know about them, if you go cheapo you might not be happy.
Cool! I have been thinking about something like that.
We have, by "we"….I mean LARRY has a small red chainsaw that he loves to use. Nobody wants me touching any form of chainsaw and I think I agree with that (knowing how clumsy I am.) He goes on a rampage here and there with the little thing. Its a bit smaller than the one you have.
We got a pole saw…whatever the orange brand thing is….and it works well, but that thing is heavy and harder to use than expected. (From what I could tell when I was "helping" Larry trim the Holly trees in our yard.)
I've had the craftsman v20 pole saw for about 3 years maybe and it works fine gets a little heavy with both extension poles on it (maybe I'm just getting older), with only one I can reach up and get to about 10 feet high which is usually enough to get what I'm after. I wish it could work with any extension like the size of what you got Frank, I may see what they got since Dewalt and Craftsman are both owned by Stanley Black & Decker these days they usually have the same stuff, but often in electric at least the red ones are less expensive than the yellow…It does look pretty handy.
I've used a small Stihl battery powered like that . Great for trimming and will actually cut up to about 6" limbs much better than you would think.
I went with the Ryobi as the weed eater attachments I have from old gas units would fit their 40v electric. Then the 40v batteries work with their chain saw and post hole digger (which works amazingly.) Their 18v batteries go for the mini chain saw (manual oiling for the blade😕), pole saw and little compressor (which was a freebee and is very good.)
After trying it out yesterday, I am pretty optimistic it will be fine for the intended purpose. Not an every job chainsaw for sure, but trimming in tight places and taking down small trees, it will not wear me out. If I have to take down something big, the Stihl is waiting in the shop.
Right tool for job at hand.
Don't use a tool outside its intended use/ limits
I have a Ryobi 14" (I think) and it does everything I will ever need a chainsaw to do. Gave my 20" gas saw to my nephew after I tested the Ryobi.
Was buying a second battery for the lawn mower and the chainsaw with battery was $ 180.00 and the battery alone was around $ 140.00. If I look at is backa**wards, the saw only cost me $ 40.00.
Brad Steele
I have a bunch of Harbor Freight battery tools and have got along fine. I have an 8" pole saw and a 10" saw, both 20V. With an 8 AH battery either will cut up a lot of stuff. I used the 10" today to trim the small branches (up to 2" diameter) from a large pin oak which blew down in the yard last June. Had to wait for it to dry some because it is going straight into the basement and into the furnace.
I probably have 30 to 40 hours on each electric saw and no trouble yet although I did bend the shaft on the pole saw and straightened it.
Didn't cost too much but the batteries are pretty expensive. I think I have 8 or 9 batteries from 1.5 to 5 AH. Any saw I have gets a lot of use because I cut a lot of wood. Since the emerald ash bore killed all the ash, I have thousands which are rotting away faster than I can cut them up. Getting markedly slower each year does not help, either.
That's a nice saw but I am not crazy about tip guards.
It should last a long time!
Nothing that couldnt be taken off, might require a drill bit but seems easy enough to remove.
I got this one as a Christmas gift. It's handy.
There's no chain oil. I carry a spray can of silicone lubricant.
That's a good idea^^^
That is nice but the battery and charger cost more than the saw.
I bought an off name $49 saw that I use on the tree farm. It is six inch and has two batteries and came with two extra chains. It works great for the past year and I have four chain saws that get the tough jobs. For the money you cant beat it.
Maybe a guy could get a tip about how to do it.😉