Husqvarna Battery Powered Climbing Saw?

[Dan Earp]

I too have been looking at this dark sided saw, but whens stihl's battery saw coming out?

[Old Mill Tree Care]

I too have been looking at this dark sided saw, but whens stihl's battery saw coming out?

 

That can't be a serious question surely?!

 

It'll cost £7.5K, break in 5 minutes and Stihl will say "operator error" then you'll have to drive 300 miles to get a spare part 'cos posting it isn't allowed.

 

The spare part will cost a £1 million and last 10 seconds then..............

 

:lol:

[s.varty]

That can't be a serious question surely?!

 

It'll cost £7.5K, break in 5 minutes and Stihl will say "operator error" then you'll have to drive 300 miles to get a spare part 'cos posting it isn't allowed.

 

The spare part will cost a £1 million and last 10 seconds then..............

 

:lol:

 

:laugh1:

[Dan Earp]

That can't be a serious question surely?!

 

It'll cost £7.5K, break in 5 minutes and Stihl will say "operator error" then you'll have to drive 300 miles to get a spare part 'cos posting it isn't allowed.

 

The spare part will cost a £1 million and last 10 seconds then..............

 

:lol:

 

Lol, sounds like chris g kindda saw lol

[JimM]

Worked with one today... Dismantled a cherry and my colleague dismantled a Scott's pine... Used only one and a half batteries between us!!

 

It's such a pleasure to use in terms of noise and ease to start/use.

 

In fact it has become the saw of choice at work and if we have more than one climber climbing on site at once they argue over who gets to use it!!

 

Sums it up for us too. Preferred saw up the tree, although I've been running in my T540 last few days.

Of the two batteries, one doesn't hold a charge as well as the other, but with both fully charged we can get through a heap of work.

[18 stoner]

Yep, had one on demo and can echo what others have said.

 

Only thing no one else has mentioned is power. Although there's a stack more than I expected from a battery saw, we found giving it anything more than a 4" cross cut, it was painfully slow.

 

To sum it up, I'd say it has its uses, but at this point I'd stick it in the pruning saw bracket.

 

For sure though, battery power is going to be the future and this is a very serious piece of kit from husky. I'm sure the future will hold better battery technology giving more power and run time, and even less weight and possibly cost.

 

For us at the moment though, I'd say I can't justify the cost compared to other petrol pruning saws.