Thread: Cordless gardening tools...No thanks

Originally Posted by LRJim

I highly doubt that it was the saws fault, chain condition, power head ever serviced in its life?
I have the smallest stihl and one of the biggest, and there is no way a ryobi cordless will cut what the little still would. Maybe a 30 yr old never serviced stihl just begging to die but par for par it just aint gonna happen!

It happened.
Electrics are great.

Just bought one as so impressed with the 12"Dewalt I keep in the 110


AM

Originally Posted by LRJim

I highly doubt that it was the saws fault, chain condition, power head ever serviced in its life?
I have the smallest stihl and one of the biggest, and there is no way a ryobi cordless will cut what the little still would. Maybe a 30 yr old never serviced stihl just begging to die but par for par it just aint gonna happen!

We still use my fathers little Stihl which is well over 40yrs old,its done thousands of hours,still going fine.
The only thing that did happen recently was the spark plug lead had rubbed through on the Alloy casing.Nothing a bit of electrical tape couldn't fix.

But the latest electric one is just as good,and the batteries seem to last for ages.
And no noise or petrol to lug around and no petrol fumes in the car.

If anyone is a bit disappointed in the the performance of their whipper snippers (petrol or elec) try using square section line. Especially on 'woody' stem weeds.

DL

Originally Posted by POD

.............The only down side I have found with the battery saw is that if you overload it so it slows down, it cuts out and you have to back off the cut and switch on again; whereas a petrol saw might drop the revs a bit and keep going. Same with the mower, the protective circuitry cuts the motor dead if it starts to slow even slightly................

I actually liked this feature in a 18V Ryobi circular saw I was using to rip down fence palings that I had in a jig I made up, the saw would trip out when it bound or went skew, whereas I think if it was too powerful it would've jumped out of the cut.

Originally Posted by Ancient Mariner

Just bought one as so impressed with the 12"Dewalt I keep in the 110


AM

I am keen to try a chain saw.....as I have a bunch of Milwaukee gear along with a 12V Charger

Any body had this happen ? Best price in Aus $953 with one 12 amp battery. This one had two and at over $300 apiece seemed like a no brainer .The seller looses his saw also AM

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