Battery Husky vs Echo vs Stihl

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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.