air chainsaw

[renewablejohn]

Anybody experience with air chainsaws.

 

Air Chain Saws and Pneumatic Chain Saws Made by CS Unitec

 

With having air on MB Trac and already using for air drill, impact driver and angle grinder just wondered whether chainsaw would be useful as my husky is getting long in the tooth and I normally only use it for cutting to length when loading the forwarding trailer.

[treequip]

You are going to need a bigger compressor

 

92CFM is hydrovane territory

[renewablejohn]

You are going to need a bigger compressor

 

92CFM is hydrovane territory

 

Is that more to do with the size of your air tanks. Obviously you only use the chainsaw for a couple of minutes to cut through the log then the pressure would build up again for the next cut.

[Reddog]

Well in layman terms a 600 gallon tank would run it for less than a minute at a draw of 90cfm.

[renewablejohn]

Well in layman terms a 600 gallon tank would run it for less than a minute at a draw of 90cfm.

 

So I presume the 1.2hp chainsaw would be better requiring 30cfm. Even a 10 inch bar would be enough for 90% of the cuts I do.

[treequip]

Don't underestimate the size of the tank needed, the time required to fill it or the lack of endurance

[hedgesparrow]

if you read the tech details it uses a lot of air. as other posts you need a road compressor it will eat air to run it up to speed.

and price of it i bet its not cheap. plus the hoses. better off getting a petrol saw.

[Reddog]

So I presume the 1.2hp chainsaw would be better requiring 30cfm. Even a 10 inch bar would be enough for 90% of the cuts I do.

 

 

 

It would use less air than the 4hp, but in comparison to your other tools that only use between 4-8 cfm it is still a lot of air to produce.

And I have not run air chainsaws so I have no idea how the 1.2 hp rating would relate to a gas chainsaw. I am wondering if they have a slower chain speed like the electric and hydraulic saws do.

[openspaceman]

You are going to need a bigger compressor

 

92CFM is hydrovane territory

 

Yes and at 90psi I make that 28kW delivered to the saw but why so much input for a 4hp saw?

 

I've always liked the idea of a 2t motor running a sideblower for a pole saw, telescopic tube to carry the air and no need of a return pipe.

[Daniël Bos]

Was I the only one that thought this thread would be about pretending to use a chainsaw in inappropriate moments, like playing air-guitar?