Thread: Chainsaw attachment for your Cordless Grinder

It looks like a perfect way to burn out a perfectly good grinder to me.

Originally Posted by weeds

Wonder how these will cut it against the cordless chainsaws.

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I’ll stick to my petrol Stihl

****house against a dedicated electric chainsaw.

I used a cheapie dedicated electric chainsaw once and was very impressed. It was brand spankers so i dont know how long it would last, but they are so simple and torquey. Easy to use. It seemed a lot safer as well, being much quieter and operating at much lower revs.

It would probably be quite ok for those really quick small jobs Tools these days are quite robust, and if not, they're cheap to replace I guess. Although I priced a grinder skin for my AEG set the other day,, $200,,,

An uncle of mine sourced a steel cut-off blade to suit his small angle grinder, and riveted/screwed some chain links to it to make like a gouging tool for the burls he used to make bowls out of. No handle, no guard,,, I looked at this thing and wondered how the **** he still had any fingers left. Told him he was an idiot and left him to it.

TBH, I can't really see it working very well, except in an emergency where you need something cut and that's all you have.

I'm no chainsawing expert, just the occasional user with experience, but in every instance where I've used a chainsaw, I've found you need 'throttle control' .. where you can speed up slow down the speed of the chain.
I can't ever remember a time where I've just had the chain saw fully flat out all the time .. which is that a grinder will do.

I have 5 grinders(3 mine, 1 brothers, and 1 dads) none of them have fine speed control over the grindwheel speed.

Add this chainsaw attachment to a grinder, and you have a full speed only chain.

Can you even get a grinder that has speed control? I know of a couple of times I'd have liked to have had one.

Originally Posted by AK83

TBH, I can't really see it working very well, except in an emergency where you need something cut and that's all you have.

I'm no chainsawing expert, just the occasional user with experience, but in every instance where I've used a chainsaw, I've found you need 'throttle control' .. where you can speed up slow down the speed of the chain.
I can't ever remember a time where I've just had the chain saw fully flat out all the time .. which is that a grinder will do.

I have 5 grinders(3 mine, 1 brothers, and 1 dads) none of them have fine speed control over the grindwheel speed.

Add this chainsaw attachment to a grinder, and you have a full speed only chain.

Can you even get a grinder that has speed control? I know of a couple of times I'd have liked to have had one.

And what revs does a 4"grinder spin at. I thought it was around 10K. That chain would be movin'.

My electric chainsaw stops dead the moment I release the trigger, bet this one doesn't.

At first glance I thought it was reasonably sorted, what with an inertia chain brake and all; however I have four 4" angle grinders and they all have a detent type power switch, so yes sure the brake would try to stop the chain in a kickback but it would be fighting against the engine.