Cordless chainsaw experiences and recommendations?

A few weeks back my cheap Homelite whipper snipper died after 10 years of perfect service. I bought a 18v Ryobi trimmer that works Ok - light weight but Ok for the suburbs.

Yesterday I was cleaning out my garage and picked up the old petrol trimmer and tried to start it and of course it started first go having previously died - whipper snippered the back yard with it and when finished it stopped and has died again.

To throw it out or keep it is the question.

Ryobi 36v stuff is very good but for suburban the 18v stuff works well - specially as I already have 18v chargers, two 5ah and one 2 ah batteries, the drill, trimmer, pole trimmer (chain saw thing) and the whipper snipper - may move to the chain saw but again the old Ozito I have still runs great. When the Masport 6 hp lawn mower dies I would like to go to the mower but maybe the 36v would be better than the 18v (a shame the 36v did not just run 2x 18v batteries).

Garry

As I already have way too many Milwaukee power tools,

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I'd be choosing the 16" M18 Fuel saw. I don't have one but I've used one, and it's way better than my baby Stihl MS170 that I have to carry in the car.

https://youtu.be/0Hl0HzjBtZA

If your going to buy an Electric chainsaw get one with the "Quick chain tensioner system" no tools needed, Absolute best thing ever invented. end of story.
Have a look at the pictures in this ad to see what I mean

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Originally Posted by goingbush

If your going to buy an Electric chainsaw get one with the "Quick chain tensioner system" no tools needed, Absolute best thing ever invented. end of story.
Have a look at the pictures in this ad to see what I mean

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Yep, they are brilliant - the Ryobi 36 volt has this on them, wouldn’t go back. 👍

I suppose the 36 volt would be good but our 18volt is fine for cutting up firewood.
I can't imagine going back to a petrol chainsaw or mower.
It's interesting that half the mowers in Bunnings Cairns the other day were electric. All the brands are going that way now.

18v Ryobi though is only a single sided cutter.
36v is conventional chain

True, but it still works pretty good.

I bought one of these about 6 months ago.

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachmen...s-saw-wood.jpg


The pile of cut wood this chainsaw is sitting on is one batterys worth of 58 volt power :)
I splurged and replaced the standard 16" chain with a tungsten tipped one, best thing I ever did.
We've recently returned from 10 weeks travel in northern Australia and after (carefully) cutting wood for a group of up to 10 people the saw didn't require sharpening once!!, and that's northern hardwoods like mulga, desert oak, gidgee etc.

I never thought a battery chainsaw could ever 'cut the mustard' compared with my 'travelling' Stihl 009 arborist saw. This battery saw is easily its equal power wise and up there generally with my old Farm Boss. A big call but that's been my experience. IMO it's got a lot to do with the relatively high voltage (58 volts) and the inherent power efficiencies that go with this.

I've just replaced my Stihl 085 brush cutter/line trimmer with the AEG 58 volt equivalent and am very pleased with its performance as well.

Deano :)

I bought a 36v Ryobi lawn mower as a gift last year - works really well.

Went to the house where the mower now lives and noticed the 5Ah battery sitting on a wet chair outside - yep the battery had been left out in the rain for a few days and was now dead [bigsad] with water pouring out of it.

I investigated and tried all the recommended ways to resurrect the battery, all to no avail. The management system has a circuit to stop over charging and a separate circuit that shuts the battery down if voltage drops to just over 30v - hence the appliance does not slowly run down when battery runs down but just stops. If the battery drops below 30v it will not charge so other means are needed to to get it above 30v so the charger will charge.

I bypassed the management system in the battery and the voltage at the battery was only 15v so a few cells have dropped. Put 38v to just the battery and it go to 22v but when power removed drops straight back to 15v. Not sure if the BMS is also gone.

Now while I bought this mower it is not actually mine and Bunnings wants $299 for a new 6Ah or 2x 4Ah batteries. If the owner wants Ryobi batteries he can buy his own - but I did spring for a 6Ah no name battery from ebay for $130. No great expectations but I have a couple of knockoffs myself and they seem OK.

Now the Ryobi 5Ah battery weighs 1.4kg and the 6Ah ebay special only weighs 1.2Kg so probably is only about 4Ah - low expectations achieved. Ryobi tends to use middle of the range LG batteries, though sometimes you might get Samsung so nothing special. The knockoffs are usually cheap low performance no name Chinese batteries hence the lighter weight.

The actual performance of the knockoffs vs cost is not so bad, the real issue is just their claims - claimed to be a 6Ah but probably about 4Ah - still a lot cheaper than Ryobi but is definitely not as advertised.

I am going to remove the circuit board of the Ryobi and find out how many of the cells have failed and see if putting new ones in brings the battery back.

garry

I have 2 knock offs with Samsung Cells.

Work great.