Hand held chainsaw

[Guest]

2 hours ago, Steve_M said:

After retirement I started a small gardening business. I bought a job lot of tools, including a small Echo chainsaw. I realised that I wasn’t trained in its use so couldn’t use it in a customer’s garden due to public liability etc. so I sold it. I now need a small chainsaw to use in our garden (includes about 3/4 acre wooded). For the gardening work I used Stihl battery powered kit, which has proven to be, light, robust, easy to handle and reliable. Looking at the Stihl range their chainsaw appears to use a different battery.

 

Which brings me onto my point. Battery powered stuff is fine but there’s little or no standardisation on design even within a single manufacturer (Ryobi, possibly, excepted) which means multiple batteries and multiple chargers should you want to extend your range of tools.
 

 

Stihl chainsaw use the same batteries. Or they did a year ago when I was using them at work, interchangeable with hedgecutters etc.

 

 

[Steve_M]

1 hour ago, goat said:

Stihl chainsaw use the same batteries. Or they did a year ago when I was using them at work, interchangeable with hedgecutters etc.

 

 

I’ll have another look. 

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

Unless you're doing thick stuff in a hurry don't overlook electric reciprocating saws.

 

When my petrol chainsaw died I couldn't really justify the price of a decent brand replacement and didn't want to waste money on a cheap version.

 

I bought an Aldi reciprocating saw, fitted a decent blade from B&Q and so far it's cut everything I need. I took out a pear tree with a 6" trunk recently.

 

It's much slower, but also much cheaper and much safer.