A home made chain saw using an angle grinder?

Is this a reliable tool?

 

Im sure it is and fun to watch the build, but why not just buy an electric chain saw?

 

Looks safe.

 

You'd prefer a video of him checking out at a cash register?

 

Angle grinders are high rpm, but are not able to handle that kind of load, and would burn up in minutes.

 

When I saw this I was just asking myself why?
Low end electric saws are cheap and surely way more durable.

 

I cut a piece of 1/2" plate last year for a splitter wedge and the grinder wasn't bogging down....then it burst into flames and smoke was everywhere.
Turns out you can't put the magic smoke back in.

 

I know someone that repairs tools professionally, but I can neither confirm or deny the existence of a tool referred to as the magic smoke pump...

 

Think I had one of those in high school!

 

I bet you did!

 

Without oil life will be short.

 

Ah yes the magic smoke- once it escapes things are toast. Isn't just the inexpensive units that happens too either. Brand new 220/440 3Ph Baldor motor. Continuous duty cycle 3HP - magic smoke escaped - Thank you Wisconsin Electric Co. 300V per leg. on 220v lines. 190 on 110V lines. (Course not their fault??????? This was because the new Mc Donalds one block over didn't have enough voltage so their crew changed the transformer taps on the line). Or a customer with a shop full of brand new electronic drive machines- magic smoke again. ( middle of day WI Elect. swapped grids , every day, 600 V spike in both directions on a 110V line). Just a couple of my magic smoke stories when I was still doing service work in the field.

 

Those angle grinders are inexpensive, and I am sure this was cheap to build.
Oh, where was the bar and chain oiler?
Plus, like mentioned before you start putting a lot of drag on that chain for any length of time and it will burn up.

So, if you just want to cut twigs there you go.

 

Chainsaws are pretty good at what they do so are angle grinders. Why make things more complicated than they need to be?

 

Did you see all of his homemade tools? Looks like a man with a hobby to make his own stuff from what he has on hand.
Stihls German made old school electric saw used the angle grinder platform. Albeit with a oiler.
I give him credit for getting off his azz and doing something.

 

Nah, I figure we will be speaking Russian or Chinese soon enough don’t care for listening to it at the moment.