[Shop-talk] Well blow me down!

[eric at megageek.com]

Ah, Chainsaws, a topic I actually know something about.

The new crop of battery operated chain saws are very impressive. Note, 
they are ideal for 'limbing' a tree (taking apart when it's down on the 
ground.)  You can move around a tree and the saw is not turning or 
anything.  Then, press the button, cut the limb, and the saw stops again. 
They use a great trick to be more efficient at cutting.  Their blades and 
kerfs are about half of a gas saw's.  This means they have to cut less 
wood to do the same job.  It mean less sawdust as well.  (Note, modern 
vacuum cleaners do this also.  They have narrower pickup area, so the same 
size motor is effectively more powerful in a smaller area.)

I am a dewalt man, so I bought the dewalt one...

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01NBVCQ4W/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 


It works and runs great.  BUT, if you weren't already in Dewalt battery 
land, I think the Milwaukee chainsaw is a little heavier duty.  It has two 
bar nuts where the dewalt's flaw is it 'toolless' single bolt set up. It's 
great for homeowners that don't really push the saw, but I had problems 
with it when the bar gets a little bit of sawdust in the bar grove.  It's 
easy to fix, but it requires a quick chain removal.

For what you are talking about, I think you'll find an electric chainsaw 
to be the cat's meow!  No gas, no pull start, you get to buy another tool, 
and then you can get other tools now that you have the batteries.

Dewalt does have batteries in 30V, 60V and 120V and the can share 
batteries!


"Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational 
being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory." Ralph 
Waldo Emerson 
-Who is John Galt?
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