I believe they are really proud of that saw. I looked at Lowes and the most expensive was $299. Some of their writeup appears to me a bunch of BS. 12 volt battery is yesteryear's technology. 150 cuts on 6" cedar. Give me a break. It may be good for city folk that needs a saw to do the occasional pruning. I have a corded electric saw. It works good for small cuts. I use it to cut down those occasional long splits. My corded saw runs at a slower RPM than my gas. Can't speak on the battery saw RPMs.
Probably fine for occasional light use, cut a branch here or there camping, but I wouldn't think it's the right tool to stock up on your firewood.
The battery saws have come a long ways recently. I was in a Stihl class earlier this year and the instructor said they are starting to sell a lot of the battery saws to tree trimmers for use in bucket trucks. 1. They work well, supposed to be able to cut 200 3-4" branches on a charge. 2. They solve the "how to safely start a gas saw when you are up in a bucket truck problem" Don't have to try to keep the saw running, don't have to come down for your ground man to start everytime.
I think they have their applications. For trimming here and there, and light felling/bucking, they would be ok. If you're standing in front of 10 x 20"+ diameter trees and they all have to get put through the splitter before dark, youd better bring along your gas saw and 5 gallons of premix.
If they were affordable like my dewalt string trimmer, I'd be all over it. Something like that would be perfect for doing woods cleanup. Walking the town owned conservation land behind me, I could heat for many years for the branches and smaller downed stuff. No drawing attention to myself that way.
My reasoning would be that I already have a lot of battery packs and it would be easy to grab, pop in a battery and trim up some branches, quietly. Still quite expensive though.
I have the 18V Fuel impact & I'm very impressed with it. However, for that amount of coin if that saw won't run with a 261CM I'm out. Way too much money for a battery saw. Another thing is the cost of battery's, although I guess if you figure the cost of gas they may wash for equal amounts of cutting. When the electric can run with the gasser I'll reconsider my position. Oh yeah, & you can't port & mod the battery saw either.
No, it's an 18 volt, 12ah battery. We have a bunch of Fuel stuff here, with 4 & 5 ah batteries. They perform. Ya, a little bit spendy, but if you've already got batteries it looks a bit better. EDIT: Or maybe that's what you meant too. On the v/ah thing....
I have the Ryobi 18V One+ system and I have been looking at their brushless chainsaw. For light work like sawing up pallets, tree pruning or some brush work, I think the electric saws have their merit. I'm not going to waste my time trying to cut firewood with it though. Also looks like it would be a good tool to teach the kids how to run a chainsaw without scaring them off. Although my son is 14 now and I think I will be having him do some cutting this fall.
Might be able to do some quiet cutting at dump! Lots of wood there that is often too large to load. But no cutting allowed. If a saw cuts at the dump and no one can hear it did it really happen? . . . wait, that’s not right Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Most all cordless motors have dynamic braking reversing armature polarity upon release of the trigger. Corded saws lack a clutch which is why they rip through chaps and different torque characteristics. Being these are targeted at people who have no idea how to run a gas saw or on any regular basis my guess is they did some R&D on torque stall Work well on this one
