Stihl msa160t

[Stihlben]

Just been to my local dealer today and had a play with the new battery powered topper, has anyone got one yet? If so how do you find it? Does anyone fancy one? I'm quite tempted myself as I do a lot of tree maintenance in nursing homes and hospitals....

Looks and feels quite good on first impressions.....

[Stihlben]

About the same size as a 150t

[peatff]

It looks like an electric carving knife.

[Stihlben]

Am I the only one who's slightly interested in this new tool?

My local dealer is giving me a demo machine to trial at the end of next week, so should be interesting to see how it performs...

[elliott EGD]

I exspect it will perfom quite well with the. Narrow gauge chain . cant be to far off the perfomance of a 150 t The way Batterys and motors a comming on .

Slap some pics up on you trial and your thoughts.

 

We should be getting a trial of the 536xp li some time soon

[Stihlben]

Picked up the MSA 160 on demo this morning, very strange, no vibrations or any idling noise,could get used to this...

The power is there on the button, comparable to my 150t in size and weight.

[Stihlben]

[Treemoose]

That looks interesting stihlben, what's the battery charge/life like on it?

[Treespotter]

That's not really interesting Treemoose.

I don't know how many batteries are included in the set, but on my Husqys I change the batteries on every startup after a break. I do some takedowns with mine (what I shouldn't do!) and only than I sometimes have to change batteries during work.

When you use the saw for what it was intended for (pruning) and you swap the batteries in the morning and after every break you never end up with a flat battery.

 

Wolter

[ArborClimber]

I work with a big company in Germany, and we started using a couple of these battery saws a month or so ago. We love them. For normal tree care, deadwood, etc up to anything as thick as 6 inches, they work really well. Especially with climbing as you don't have to try pull-starting it. Just make sure you put the break on....