Got the urge

to purchase a battery powered chainsaw. Anyone have a specific make and model that they have had good luck with?

 

My neighbor has the Kobalt 40v Li-Ion from Lowes. He likes it. But he only limbs 2" and smaller. And when battery power is low-it abruptly stops...no gradual degradation of power or speed.

 

I am curious about the electric saws. I think they will be awesome. Batteries. Batteries are what needs to improve. If I could get an electric saw equal to a 4.5hp gasser that would match cuts 1 battery to 1 tank of fuel I think I'd be sold. They will come. I think the climbers are starting to embrace the small ones already. No more pull starting hanging in a tree, just squeeze the trigger.

 

I've got an electric Remington pole saw. Got it for free and it sat there for a year because I don't really have trimming to do, last week I helped a friend of mine with some trimming. I popped the saw off the pole and proceeded to cut the low stuff and cut to length everything else. Public works wants stuff less than 6 feet long or they will leave it. I never went back to the truck for my 036. The little saw was zipping thru the 2 to 4 inch limbs. Can use it with one hand. Sounds cheesy but I really enjoyed how easy it was to cut with that little light saw. The drawback was being tethered to an electric cord.

 

I would look hard at the 58v Echo. Thy are around $250, and seem to be pretty good quality.

 

Corded electric saws are powerfull. But you have a cord that's always in the way plus you have to have a power source.

My in laws had a jack legged tree guy one time that used a corded electric saw when he climbed. His ground saw was a Poulan wild thing family saw. Needless to sag he smashed things up pretty good.

 

I think a rechargeable saw would be perfect for a homeowner that has trimming, light storm clean up, and that sort of jobs. No worries about fuel going bad, etc. I think it will be a long time before one would be an option for a woodcutter.

 

I can't speak for the quality or performance, but I noticed just the other day that DeWalt has a battery operated chainsaw now. I have a host of DeWalt battery powered tools and I've always been more than pleased with the power and battery life. Might be worth looking into.

 

Agree that battery saw not a good option for firewood - have already got that covered. Just thinking of getting one to carry around farm in utv or even tractor cab to cut sprouts in pasture or fence row. Would eliminate that gas smell in the cab.

 

I think it would serve that purpose perfectly.

 

I have a Craftsman Electric runs on a 19 volt battery, running with a regular nicad or a regular lithium doesn't do very good, I have a couple of 4 amp hour batteries extra capacity, does much better with those batteries, I never get it out anymore though I have a little saws I can use.
For your purpose Electric might work out good, I would go 40 volt at least

 

I have the ryobi 40v chainsaw works great just don't be in a hurry in the bigger stuff.

 

We could've. It's actually my mom's she gave me heck I cut all the wood for the campfire with it Thursday .

 

New thing. Next GTG electric battery powered saw races. All yall are going to be building and hooking up battery packs in series and upping the voltage to cut faster. Getting custom 72v and 80v packs built!

 

I think a 400 electric saw might run fine for a small period on 120 till you fry the motor. But yea sure there corded 120 volt electric units but 120 corded would be a different class

 

I could get a couple locomotive batteries in series should have enough power and run time to run awhile.