Battery Husky vs Echo vs Stihl

[walhondingnashua]

I am recommending the 2500T 100%. After having it for a few months now, I have really ran it through the paces. it really is impressive. Battery life is a product of what you're cutting and how sharp your chain is. I am going to convert to the smaller chain once the one it came with is done with. I cut up to 10" green read oak with it the other day dropping a few trees to open up around my sugar maples. It really did everything I asked it to. I don't own a better tool for clearing and dropping small trees and saplings. Its very easy to run with 1 hand while holding the tree or branch with the other hand. Easy for my son to learn on as well. Its even very convenient for rough carpentry work.
A week ago I got my 562 pinched on a tough dead-standing pignut hickory that carpenter ants got to. It was more rotten then I thought and my wedges couldn't lift the tree so it sat on bar. I didn't have another option so the 2500T undercut and back cut the 24" tree and dropped it. That really sold me on the saw.

 

[hobbyheater]

Have 3 Stihl saws MSA 160, 220 and the 300. The battery for the 160 is 13 years old and is still going strong. Just shortened 5 cords of wood with the 300. It took the equivalent of 6 AP 500s battery's to do the job!

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Have a Dewalt pole saw cannot store it with oil in it as it leaks all over the place!

 

[salecker]

Hobbyheater
Do you find the electric saw easier to use as you continue down the road of supplying your own heat.
I hope that i can follow you lead and continue to supply my own heat for years to come.
I love your splitter with the added winch

 

[hobbyheater]

Hobbyheater
Do you find the electric saw easier to use as you continue down the road of supplying your own heat.
I hope that i can follow you lead and continue to supply my own heat for years to come.
I love your splitter with the added winch

I have back problems so not having to start a gas saw is a big relief! The saw with four batteries was nearly $3,000 but it has extended my wood gathering years so the expense was worth it. I also use the batteries in our lawnmower, weed wacker and hedge trimmer. When using the batteries in the saw, they need a two hour cool down before charging. If I'm going to encounter logs in access of 20 inches in diameter, I take the gas saw. Two batteries normally does half a cord.
This row of wood was roughly seventy feet long and was cut into twenty two inches lengths for our old boiler and had to be shortened to eighteen inches for the Vedolux. I made a jig that could do a wheelbarrow at a time. It took six charged batteries to accomplish the task!

 

[walhondingnashua]

I have back problems so not having to start a gas saw is a big relief! The saw with four batteries was nearly $3,000 but it has extended my wood gathering years so the expense was worth it. I also use the batteries in our lawnmower, weed wacker and hedge trimmer. When using the batteries in the saw, they need a two hour cool down before charging. If I'm going to encounter logs in access of 20 inches in diameter, I take the gas saw. Two batteries normally does half a cord.
This row of wood was roughly seventy feet long and was cut into twenty two inches lengths for our old boiler and had to be shortened to eighteen inches for the Vedolux. I made a jig that could do a wheelbarrow at a time. It took six charged batteries to accomplish the task!

I've found it makes the price of the batteries worth it if you have multiple tools to use them in. Another thing I have noticed is there are sales where you get a battery or a tool for free with a purchase quite a bit. Paying attention to that got me an extra battery.

 

[dougstove]

After 1 year of moderate use I am liking the Echo 56V chainsaw and string trimmer/brush saw; no regrets.
One 5 Ah battery charge is about when I want a break.
I had not previously used a chain saw in ~ 45 years.

 

[hobbyheater]

I've found it makes the price of the batteries worth it if you have multiple tools to use them in. Another thing I have noticed is there are sales where you get a battery or a tool for free with a purchase quite a bit. Paying attention to that got me an extra battery.

One of the battery"s was included with saw on the original purchase ! Also bought a second bar and three chains ( 16 inch) and three chains for the twenty inch bar and was given a nice discount on the entire purchase!