First Battery Chainsaw

[Dan Maynard]

If you have to keep adjusting the carb, like Stubby said suspect air leak elsewhere. 

[Mark Bolam]

Are you totally set on going battery?

 

Quite expensive outlay with charger and batteries.

 

You sound like you know your way around 2-strokes.

 

The Echo 2511WES is a lovely light little saw and will cost less than £400.

Will happily run a 12” bar.

[woody paul]

Would try new ignition module, I had a 346xp play up last year would bog down and not run nice. After a lot of messing around with carb switched module with one out of another saw and it ran sweet. 

[kram]

If petrol is acceptable, then I would go with a clone 2511 with a carving bar and 3/8" FC chain. I planned to do a comparison yesterday, against the Echo, but ran out of time. The clone runs significantly better for only slightly more weight, a better stop switch too. Fires up every pull and never cuts out between cuts/off throttle like the Echo does.

 

A while back I did a comparason between the Makita uc029 40v and a Fakita 18v. While they both do the job, the Makita is significantly quicker and a 4ah battery lasts ages, even cutting 6" or bigger.

 

However I do not like the .325 speedcut nano chain, and the tensioner constantly loosens.

 

 

 

[Mark Bolam]

My Echo doesn’t cut out, and would go through pieces like that in about a second.