Battery powered chainsaw

[IXLR8]

Recently bought an Ego 18” at the local Ace. I have 2 regular Stihls, but the Stihl battery saw was pretty pricey to take a chance on whether I’d like it or not.

Biggest stuff I’ve cut through so far is like 6 inches but no issues. The thing I like about it is not having to start or stop it when you’re intermittently clearing or pruning. It’s a little on the heavy side, but it was cheaper than other brands.

If you have the smaller 2.5Ahr battery, I would use that if you are just trimming to save yourself some weight. That is what I do.

 

[Darth_DMack]

I have a Skil 40v Power Core battery powered chainsaw, that I use 90% of the time. I have yet had an issue with it... I use a 5 amp hour battery in it, and it just runs great!

 

[Grumpycat]

That’s a good idea. I do have the ego weed wacker and leaf blower that have the smaller batteries.

The old 14" EGo (not same design as the 18") was noticeably weaker on my 2AH battery than on the 5AH. Blower is not weaker on 2AH, just much less runtime.

I don't know if it is just that my very old 2AH battery can't source the current of newer EGo battery cell suppliers.

 

[IXLR8]

I can tell you my EGO 16" runs the same whether I use the 2.5Ahr battery or the 5.0Ahr battery, just shorter run time with the 2.5.

 

[Darth_DMack]

I can tell you my EGO 16" runs the same whether I use the 2.5Ahr battery or the 5.0Ahr battery, just shorter run time with the 2.5.

Same with me... I have the 40V Skil PowerCore chainsaw. It cuts just as good with the 2.5Ahr as it does with the 5.0Ahr.

It's definitely lighter and more nimble with the 2.5Ahr but the 5.0Ahr almost more than doubles the amount of cuts I can get out of a single charge.

 

[Jstpssng]

If I drop $500 on a decent saw I want it to last 15 years even if the battery is only good for 5 years.

I don't think I've ever had a gas saw last me that long!

 

[2manyrocks]

Some Home Depot locations have the DeWalt 20v chainsaw on clearance for $89 if they have them in stock.

 

[WinterDeere]

I don't think I've ever had a gas saw last me that long!

Why? I cut a lot more than most, maybe as much as any non-pro you'll ever meet, and mine last decades. Pro saws are designed for more hours per week of use, than most firewood cutters will see in a year, and are usually only junk when parts become unobtainable after 20-30 years.

I'm still running an 064 AV and an 036 PRO, the former from the 1990's and the latter ca.2000, in addition to a newer top handle saw. Both are still going strong after many hundreds of hours and many hundreds of trees felled and processed. I fell and buck about 10 - 25 cords of wood per year, splitting 8 - 14 cords of that for myself, and leaving the remainder for the owner of the property where I harvest most of my wood.

I can afford newer saws, but I still haven't found any I like better than my 064, and the 036 isn't so much worse than the newer MS-36x's that I'm inclined to make the switch.

 

[EdwardL]

they depend on what you need to do. They will not replace a gas powered saw. I have a small Stihl. Mostly its handy for cutting up limbs that drop from a 100 year old maple, and I use it if splitting stringy wood rounds, where I need to cut the strings to continue. Otherwise its not worth having.

 

[ultrarunner]

I think a lot of property owners find their capable gas saws gathering dust once they enter the battery world of chain saws.

At the Christmas Tree Farm the 4 Stihl gas saws were never used once last season.

The 3 AP Stihl Battery Saws totally replaced them...

The reason there are 4 gas saws is to have 3 ready to go because with hundreds of starts the rope pulls would go and some of
the guys just were pros at flooding...

Not keeping gasoline around made the Insurance company happy when they visited...

Application is really the determining factor...