Chainsaw options

[openspaceman]

3 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Dunno, I have battery saws with and without clutches.

The non clutch saws just stop dead, like a battery drill.

 

They are not the Terminator.

 

I don’t see why a saw that cuts through wood quicker wouldn’t go through chainsaw chaps quicker.

Nor me, I never have used a corded chainsaw and the lst battery one I used was the first Husky top handle. When a tried to cut myself out of a predicament and touched my trousers the 262 stopped pretty damn quick,

[adw]

The armature on a corded saw is much larger and heavier than a battery saw so there is much more inertia there when the power is switched off, we used to strap a single leg from a pair of type one chainsaw trousers to a dummy leg, then run a saw into it to show how many layers it penetrated, we had to stop using a corded saw as it could penetrate more layers than the petrol equivalent 

[Dave1976]

Does any cordless chainsaw has clutch  other than husqvarna 542i ?

[Mick Dempsey]

8 hours ago, Dave1976 said:

Does any cordless chainsaw has clutch  other than husqvarna 542i ?

Not as far as I’m aware. No other husky has.

Can’t speak for the Milwaukee etc.

[Mark Bolam]

So if we’re using a corded saw there’s no point wearing chainsaw trousers?

 

That’s good to know for the summer, what a relief!

[Muddy42]

On 05/01/2025 at 23:01, Dave1976 said:

I see cordless saws with 50cc power equivalent way more dangerous than petrol.

 

I have tried both supposed 50cc equivalent electric saws and I just cannot see how they can make that equivalence power claim?  I think the problem is how electric saws get used - lighter/quieter so treated with less respect, maybe even one handed, less PPE.  

 

[GarethM]

7 minutes ago, Muddy42 said:

 

I have tried both supposed 50cc equivalent electric saws and I just cannot see how they can make that equivalence power claim?  I think the problem is how electric saws get used - lighter/quieter so treated with less respect, maybe even one handed, less PPE.  

 

I had a 70+ year old boss that bought an Aldi special, burnt that out due to not understanding two stoke or chain oil, went to electric same burnt out drive.

 

Didn't understand chain brake either, eventually persuaded him to buy a sawsall.

 

I could atleast sleep on a weekend knowing it was a damn sight safer, than an old man with zero PPE.

[Decro]

6 hours ago, Mark Bolam said:

So if we’re using a corded saw there’s no point wearing chainsaw trousers?

 

That’s good to know for the summer, what a relief!

Also saves a walk to the pub to get "legless"

[Steven P]

6 hours ago, GarethM said:

I had a 70+ year old boss that bought an Aldi special, burnt that out due to not understanding two stoke or chain oil, went to electric same burnt out drive.

 

Didn't understand chain brake either, eventually persuaded him to buy a sawsall.

 

I could atleast sleep on a weekend knowing it was a damn sight safer, than an old man with zero PPE.

 

When I got my first saw, a mate, a foresters son, said he'd never run with me again* if I didn't get appropriate PPE. Harsh but fair and his point - the same here - was he'd sleep better at the weekend knowing his pal wouldn't be legless on a Monday.

 

 

*We're both runners, I needed company on the fells and hills... which was a bigger thing than not buying a pair of trousers, tough love but has to happen.

[Steven P]

However Gareth, you know electric things better than me, the battery saw - brushless DC motors - in the higher specs machines (.. the brand names..) am I right in thinking that the controllers mean the motors stop instantly when the power is off - reverse breaking of some kind? Where mains motors, brushed motors - have some inertia and no braking?