anyone got a 30 mile extension cord ...

[manco]

all my chainsaws are electric

battery chainsaws, charged on site using a petrol generator, or corded saws for bigger stuff, run off same generator

carbon zero here we come!

[Haironyourchest]

They serve a niche. Low noise applications, nothing else will do (yeah, manual saws..)

 

Backpack battery, or a dozen batteries, they can do the same job as petrol, at many times the cost of purchase.

 

Some applications, light hedging, pruning, strimming, battery competes quite well. Crosscutting big logs, no, but if it has to be done quietly, then it can be done, for a price.

[Mick Dempsey]

Re, battery saws.

We have the poky husky topper and the battery ground saw, both with clutches.

For general arb work they cover 80% of what we do, especially as we don’t ring up stems very often cos of the Avant.

The topper is heavy, so gets benched for the little echo on the smaller stuff.

As a chipper saw and for light work the back handled battery saw is first out of the truck.

 

[openspaceman]

36 minutes ago, Haironyourchest said:

Crosscutting big logs, no, but if it has to be done quietly, then it can be done, for a price.

I fabricated  a tractor exhaust last year, on site, with a 200A inverter welder using a 3kWh 3kVA power station so I don't see why that wouldn't run a 2kW corded chainsaw for ringing up, mind you would need a wheelbarrow to carry it (and £3k)

[Haironyourchest]

3 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

I fabricated  a tractor exhaust last year, on site, with a 200A inverter welder using a 3kWh 3kVA power station so I don't see why that wouldn't run a 2kW corded chainsaw for ringing up, mind you would need a wheelbarrow to carry it (and £3k)

 

It's a point. Whisper quiet genie to run a nominal corded saw. Solves the noise issue. If the cord is long enough, maybe solves the oddball rules of the job regarding petrol machines. Not sure the Noway Kommune job would permit the generator, in principle. But the cord is a deal breaker for arb work (in general, depends I suppose).

[Rich Rule]

17 minutes ago, Haironyourchest said:

 

It's a point. Whisper quiet genie to run a nominal corded saw. Solves the noise issue. If the cord is long enough, maybe solves the oddball rules of the job regarding petrol machines. Not sure the Noway Kommune job would permit the generator, in principle. But the cord is a deal breaker for arb work (in general, depends I suppose).

It is the irony I don’t get.

 

A generator was on site AFAIK to charge the huge 360.

 

 

[Haironyourchest]

9 minutes ago, Rich Rule said:

It is the irony I don’t get.

 

A generator was on site AFAIK to charge the huge 360.

 

 

 

I'm intrigued. Don't know how the Kommune system works but I'd assume someone with clout on the committee got a bee in their bonnet, without thinking it through. This kind of thing isn't normal in Norway, right?

[openspaceman]

3 hours ago, Haironyourchest said:

It's a point.

But did you get it? The powerstation I used was a Bluetti lithium ion battery and inverter

 

https://www.t3.com/reviews/bluetti-ac500-b300s-review

 

So no engine involved.

 

Mind I don't recommend it as two failed within the first year, at least they refunded the total cost without deductions for use.

 

[lurch_918]

mind you if its just limited noise your after may i suggest a small amount of military grade explosives . . . it will only be one bang and it does a few jobs in one . 

1st being the main job of felling .

2nd being stump removal.

and the 3rd and best is that it does your chipping for you . 

 

 

[Haironyourchest]

12 hours ago, openspaceman said:

But did you get it? The powerstation I used was a Bluetti lithium ion battery and inverter

 

https://www.t3.com/reviews/bluetti-ac500-b300s-review

 

So no engine involved.

 

Mind I don't recommend it as two failed within the first year, at least they refunded the total cost without deductions for use.

 

 

Ah, so a big battery. 3,072Wh, does that mean it can produce 3 kilowatts for an hour?