Interesting video of battery vs petrol saws.

[Eddy_t]

Haha, no it wasn't me.

I posted a video here but it was Wouter van den Dungen who posted the real life videos.

 

Most of the work in the tree is done by me in the eco modus.

 

Could you get wouter to run it against a 200t, as I recon it just might outcut the 200t, but I will point out before anyone bites, MIGHT!

[Daniël Bos]

To be honest I'm tempted. VAT quarter ends in 3 days.

Trouble is I think it will be the same as DeWalt batteries especially with circular saws. I'm, talking 18V and 3ah batts. They start great then tail off. How have you found this with your use. Or is it still too new.

 

Did you have this experience with li-ion or nimh batteries?

[Treespotter]

Are those Dewalt batteries lithium ion too?

 

To be honest I really can't comment on the battery life of the Husqvarna but...

I use the Dolmar 36 volts battery saw now for three years. On those batteries I can't see any loss of power.

As Dolmar is backed by Makita, Husqvarna is an Electrolux company. I really can't imagine that those husqy batteries won't last the lifetime of the machine in good health.

[Eddy_t]

Did you have this experience with li-ion or nimh batteries?

 

As long as the batteries are run flat before recharging then they tend to remain the full battery life, but if they are stuck back on charge before it will eventually loose power, and Li-ion are much better than NiMH by far

[Daniël Bos]

As long as the batteries are run flat before recharging then they tend to remain the full battery life, but if they are stuck back on charge before it will eventually loose power, and Li-ion are much better than NiMH by far

 

This should not be needed for li-ion.

This is why I asked "like it" which batteries his experience were about.

[Treespotter]

Could you get wouter to run it against a 200t, as I recon it just might outcut the 200t, but I will point out before anyone bites, MIGHT!

 

There is no need for a contest to see which one is faster. The 200 is the fastest one of the couple. But I would like to see those saws in close combat to see how close they really are. (and how far off when it comes to noise, polluting fumes, ease of use, maintenance and progessive thinking)

[Treespotter]

Sorry guys this was probably a tapatalk glitch.

[Alinicoll]

I have one of these saws on demo this week as well as a t540xp. I used the battery one today to dismantle a small/ medium Ash, DBH 15" ish. It was interesting to see what it can do. It`s not very torquey but cuts small stuff pretty well. Using it on full power drains the battery notably faster than economy mode. I found one battery did most of the crown. The second battery lasted about 10 mins doing the last of the crown and chogging. I realize the saw is not really intended for this but it was interesting to see. The lack of torque means you would want a different saw for chogging. I also noticed that on economy mode the saw is less responsive, if you are doing little sensitive cuts where you need to tickle the throttle it can be a bit limiting but this doesn`t happen on full power.

 

It is certainly odd without the petrol engine but in the right setting the saw could be okay. We are hoping to get it on a reduction on Friday and some conifer topping tomorrow so it`ll be interesting to see how that goes.

 

We used it a bit on Friday in sub zero temperatures, the batteries didn`t do well in the cold. One was supplied half charged but by the time I used it it was dead. The rep who lent us the saws said there are better batteries coming out later this year.

 

At the moment I don`t feel the need to rush out and buy one myself but I can see that this is probably the future of saws and for the right job it quite nice not to have the noise although you still need ear defenders.