Battery saws

[monkeybusiness]

1 hour ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Yes, ignore the 500i, not relevant.

As a stand-alone saw at that price, it looks promising.

What’s the price with charger etc?

[richyrich]

36 minutes ago, monkeybusiness said:

What’s the price with charger etc?

https://www.kress.com/en-gb/

[Silverhooker]

Got a sthil 120 battery saw couple of year’s ago it’s great for stop start little jobs and I love using it 

[Bill C]

Spare batteries are the expensive bit of battery saws. I've got Makita LXT battery hand tools so buying a Makita 36volt pole saw was a no brainer as two free batteries were included in the offer. Very impressed with the pole saw so bought the DUC305 chainsaw(12" x 3/8 x 0.043 low profile chain, changed to a Still PMM chain now) to use around the garden. It's on par with the Stihl 170/180 saws for cutting but logs bigger than 8/10" use the battery life in about half a hour. The charger can recharge a pair of 5amp batteries in 35 minutes, I use my Stihl MS180 for almost everything (how its lasted this long I'll never know) but all the horrible little short small bits of fire wood that needed cutting up but is brain numbing with a petrol saw was left in one corner, when I got the battery saw I cut up almost a dumpy bag of crap knoted wood on just over a set of batteries and it was so much easier with the battery saw that I enjoyed doing it. Petrol saws are better in almost all respects but I do find myself using the Makita a lot more now. The battery saw is also better at cutting joints in fence posts etc than a petrol saw so when I have a chance I'll try it at hedge laying as I think it would be ideal at that job aswell.

[monkeybusiness]

7 hours ago, monkeybusiness said:

What’s the price with charger etc?

£2k for a saw with 1 battery, or over £3k with 2 batteries. Bargain!…

[josharb87]

A battery saw would probably be great for hedgelaying, I’ve an older husky battery saw in the van, used for pretty much everything but tree work though 😂 it’s very “convenient” to use. Just need to remember to top up the oil. 

[AHPP]

People who can’t remember to top up the oil in a battery saw are total retards. It’s just like a petrol saw. You run out of power. You fill the oil and then put either fresh battery power or fresh petrol power in it. It’s the same thing. How are you struggling?!

[AHPP]

Do you have trouble with certain types of trousers? Can you get the correct foot in the correct leg with some pairs but not others? 

[Doug Tait]

Alex, forget about the vocal chords for today, make time for a wine...

 

[ojoeco]

20 hours ago, monkeybusiness said:

Is that the one with the test of it cutting against a blunt 500i? It looks pretty impressive, but the video is bollox.

Have you got a link to this video?