Further advice please. Stihl battery kombi units.

[Tree monkey 1682]

28 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Like crime in a multi storey car park, you’re wrong on many levels. 

That's your opinion ,I'd not wanna use battery as I think they're crap .

According to hans at still technical in Surrey..they won't ever be able to fully replace petrol chainsaws ....

[Mick Dempsey]

11 minutes ago, Tree monkey 1682 said:

Well you'd look a dick going to a customer oh can I charge my battery halfway through a job .

Buy multiple batteries. 

You never had to refill your saw with petrol?

Edited June 28 by Mick Dempsey

[Mick Dempsey]

17 minutes ago, Tree monkey 1682 said:

That's your opinion ,I'd not wanna use battery as I think they're crap .

According to hans at still technical in Surrey..they won't ever be able to fully replace petrol

 

 

Well of course it’s my opinion. 
But it’s an opinion based on owning and using battery saws in tree work for a while. 
Yours is based on having a play one time on a course.  
At the moment they can’t match the power of the bigger saws. 
Doesn’t mean they aren’t preferable for other work. 

[Bolt]

34 minutes ago, Tree monkey 1682 said:

Well you'd look a dick going to a customer oh can I charge my battery halfway through a job .

…. but you would also look a dick going to a customer oh can I borrow some petrol.

 

You highlight bad planning -  Petrol saws do not insulate operators from being generally crap.

[Bolt]

39 minutes ago, Tree monkey 1682 said:

I'd not wanna use battery as I think they're crap .

 

Alas, I fear you bought your petrol chainsaw opinions to a Stihl battery kombi party.

Edited June 28 by Bolt

[Josey Wales]

As others on here have often said, its a case of the right tools for the right job and the right place.

After using my Stihl FS460 to strim my small lawn, and peppering the windows with debris and finally cracking one, i realised i needed something more suitable than something i normally use to cut bramble and scrub, so got the Stihl KMA135 R kombi engine with strimmer head and polesaw attachment. I love it for work around the garden, and can see the benefits for some one man band gardeners as against estate guys, but personally, for work, i prefer committed tools.

The merits of 2 stroke versus battery are many. Still a little nervous with battery, a 2 stroke will give you notice that something is not quite right, a battery tool is either working or its not.

So far, completely sold on battery hedgetrimmers, the run time is fantastic, i can get virtually a whole day out of one battery, and can see the same benefits with a battery polesaw, but for chainsaws and brushcutters, the battery run time and power for what i need is just not quite there yet....nor, looking at some of the later comments, any suitable charging points.

 

Edited June 28 by Josey Wales

[Mick Dempsey]

We use a 542 battery saw in the tree for dismantling trees, and the equivalent rear handled ground saw as a chipper saw, cutting forks etc.  
Couple that with a good coms system and you’ve got a smooth, safe relaxed rigging environment.

The real test is what people really want to use, ie what they take off the truck when there’s a choice, and those two get used the most. 
Of course the petrol saws come out for felling and bigger cross cutting. 
 

[Bolt]

7 minutes ago, Josey Wales said:

a 2 stroke will give you notice that something is not quite right, a battery tool is either working or its not.

 

As has been said, select the right tool for the job.

 

A battery saw is bliss* on a scorching day, on the top of a neglected over dense endless conifer hedge, but it’s less use chogging  down multiple oak stems.

 

Everyone I know who has embraced battery says also keeps a full complement of petrol stuff for the jobs that need it.

 

Anyone who has launched a 200t out the top of a mighty ash tree, because it has been intermittently been dicking them about, yet again, despite allegedly having just been “sorted out” will appreciate the working / fecked honestly of a battery saw.

 

 

*relatively.

[Josey Wales]

Mick - I read your post/review of the Husqvarna 542i, looks to be a good saw. Certainly like that it has a clutch. Loved the power of the Stihl MSA 300 when i tried it, but curious to see what the Husqvarna 550i looks like when it comes out. 'When' being the all important word with Husqvarna.

For how you describe your work set up, i get it, battery works.

 

[Bolt]

For the record, I’ve asked customers if they’ve got an outdoor socket available before , and no one has ever batted an eyelid.  I guess it’s not unusual for a “workman” to want to plug something in.

 

Never needed to use it though, but it never hurts to have a contingency.

 

I also have a vehicle charger, so I could recharge from the truck, a spare car battery or conceivably, the chipper.

 

Never really need to though.