Stihl MSA 300

This saw has really impressed and it is very consistent it takes two battery's and a bit of a third to do half a cord (64 cubic Feet) and has done ten cords so far!

 

How long does it take for a drained battery to charge? Have your gas powered saws become shelf queens?

 

So it would take about five batteries to go get a cord of wood? How much are the batteries and chargers? The batteries would have to be fairly cheap for it to be an option for myself. Pretty interesting .

 

I have never timed the charging as we have two chargers but I am guessing about a hour and a half. I have already sold the Husky 439 but will keep the 562 and 395. They will not get used much!

 

That's right. It would take take five batteries to do a cord. The batteries are $500 Canadian. I don't remember how much the chargers were as I had them already. The lawnmower, saw, hedge trimmer, weed wacker, and pole saw all use the same battery.

 

I have found that the battery's that have just been drained by the saw have to sit for 30 to 45 minutes before they can be charged .

 

Now if Stihl only made a battery snowblower!

 

Thanks for the info. That would take me 2500 dollars in batteries alone for just a one cord outing, so it would never be feasible for my life style. It could be handy for someone only cutting a half a cord a day though if they lived in a noise tolerance restrictive area.

 

As someone who uses battery tools every day for my job, I'm curious how many charges does a guy get before the battery needs replaced?

That's the one thing I never see people mention. If a guy doesn't use it much, it's probably not an issue, but if he uses it often enough, those replacement batteries are going to get expensive, if there's not a high number of charge cycles.

 

One off my battery saws is eleven years old and that battery is still going strong !

 

The price I quoted on the batteries is a Canadian price. Take off 30% for the AMERICAN PRICE $1750.

 

The battery saw really works well as I am making firewood out of old railway ties and it takes around 30 ties to make a load. That would be 30 starts of a Gas powersaw.
I hold the ties in the splitter the same way that the Red Alder was held in the video below.
The saw pictured below is a MSA 220 .

 

Untreated?
My neighbor was burning old ties (treated) in his Hardy OWB some years back...it made such a mess out of the boiler that they just scrapped it once his tie source dried up. I was not sad...I am downwind and that thing stunk! He was constantly buying new carbide chains for his saw as the cinder "dust" that was embedded in those old ties would dull a normal chain in 1 cut.

 

If one was cutting smaller diameter wood, he could cut to a length that facilitated getting the wood back to a processing location thus reducing the number of cuts needed in the field and number of batteries needed. I have cut to 6’ lengths before just to grab as much wood as I could in a short time (or when I forgot to bring my gas can along)with the intent of cutting to my desired 18” after getting the wood home. This wouldn’t work for me with large diameter wood as I typically load the truck or trailer by hand.

 

Any idea why that is? Are they too warm to throw on the charger?

 

Not sure if you answered this already, but what does it weight with battery and oil tank full? Bar and chain too obviously. Lol

 

That is my thought. I've gotten a Milwaukee 18 volt battery hot enough, working it with a saws all or angle grinder, that the charger had a to high temp error. They begin charging once the battery reaches a safe temp.

 

That's the kind of stuff that gets people p'd off enough to complain to authorities. I certainly wouldn't want to be down wind. Wayyyy back when I was a young'n, my folks used creosote on the exterior of the addition they built on the house. I remember getting a horrible rash from it. They took me to the Dr. as it was all over the place. Don't recall how it happened. Nasty stuff.

 

That doesn't answer what I pointed out my friend. How many charge cycles has it gone through? Batteries have a limit of use before they're kaput.

I'm not trying to poo poo all this battery stuff, I use cordless tools every day at work.