I haven't used a saw with heated handles. I've found that even wearing thin " mechanic" style gloves, that while operating a saw even down to the single digit temps, my hands stay warm. If I wear thicker gloves, my hands start sweating. That's no good. At temps colder than my 8° cutoff temp, the rest of me gets too cold, mainly my face. So for me heated handle saws wouldn't be worth the money, or the hassle of trying to find saws with that feature.
I have seen some really nice ones but always cost prohibitive. A NIB one is out there somewhere and when the owner passes his kids will probably sell it. I hope it is close by and I have hit the lottery.
For a long time people said the same thing regarding buying cars with air conditioning too. Once you have heated handles you won't go back. When Stihl did offer the feature, they wanted $100 for it, when Husky the offered the option for $60. As I said before, I can't believe Stihl dropped this in the US market, but then the pro user can just buy a Husky.
Nobody has answered the question, what does "caring for nature" mean in the Stihl product chart? 2nd from the right column. https://m.stihlusa.com/WebContent/CMSFileLibrary/downloads/Chain-Saw-Comparison-Chart.pdf
Well I just did a little research and this is the tripe Stihl came up with. Tree hugger nonsense. Another reason not to buy Stihl. https://www.stihlusa.com/webcontent/cmsfilelibrary/downloads/brochure_road2green_letterpdf.pdf
I’m pretty sure that the power used to charge those batteries or run the corded tools comes from a coal fired power plant. So if you’re using one of their saws basically you’re burning coal to cut down a tree to burn to heat your house.
Remember, I'm the guy that probably won't buy another vehicle without a heated steering wheel.. I'm on my second vehicle with a heated steering wheel. On saws though, for me heated handles seem pointless. I'd probably never turn the heaters on. Husqvarna offers battery powered electric saws. Even pro ones. A lot of arborists are switching to electric saws and selling their gas saws. With all of the experience their parent company has with vacuum cleaners, they have a lot of experience with electric motors. Husky's site has the same logic and verbiage as Stihl regarding environmental aspects of electric saws. I'm more German than anything else, and the other part of me is mostly Norwegian, so anything swedish it's already on the naughty list.
