How well do they work? Any recommendations? I can't use a gas powered one. Something about the ignition system creating interference with a pacemaker.

We had some guys using the makita saws and one guy using a Milwaukee saw when I retired. They absolutely loved them . The only guy cutting firewood with one was the guy with the Milwaukee. He said with two full battery’s you could put the first one on the charger after it went dead and cut with the second one until beer :30 and repeat.
P.S. this was his personal saw !

Check out August Hunicke on youtube. He's a professional tree cutter, and loves his. Lighter and less hassle when tou are 100 feet up a tree, wearing a belt and spurs.



Charlie

better and better all the time , your not cutting huge stuff with them typically.

what are you looking to cut , just some trails or yard clean up ? or firewood for the year ?

my local saw shop has the Oregon unit in and he was fairly impressed with it he said think of it like a little home owner saw and it does ok , they put to much bar on them also a 12 inch would probably make more sense

I have heard good things about the Milwaukee also I was talking with a guy who uses the small Milwaukee for brush clearing it is a one hand operation only 6 or so inches of cutting ability , his dealer refused to sell him a spare battery said you need to recharge for as long as that battery does I won't have you killing yourself. they know each other.

the better corded eclectics can do a fair amount if you are cutting where you have power and a cord

how much should you be doing if you have a pace maker ? I know you need to keep active
I don't think they told my Grandpa not to use a chainsaw after he got his pace maker but not long after that he was mostly done any way

he cut up some big stuff right about the time he got his pace maker it was all down and laying on the ground all he had to do was lift the saw and let the weight of the 311 do the work , he would cut rounds and on the weekend my uncle would bring the skid laoder and dump truck to load them and bring them home he was about 75-77 at the time he passed at 84

GCP I would be using for yard cleanup. I'm careful about how much I push it. I leave the logging to loggers. I have a corded saw but I live on 6 acres with a 400 foot driveway so I need something more mobile.

I have a milwaukee.
The chains are real thin.
They are ok. Would work fine for trimming branches and small wood.
We used it for demo of wood items at work.

There's one on the engine at the firehouse where I work. I love it. Compact, lightweight, handy, easy to use, gets the job done. Personally, I wouldn't not want that to be my main chainsaw for cutting firewood. But for occasional light jobs they are easy to use and effective. Very impressive.

I don't have any idea how long the batteries will last, though. Or how much replacement batteries would co$t - if you can still buy replacements for it when the originals wear out.

My son has a Milwaukee and loves it. It really surprised me.

I have makitas and Husqvarna, both work well on small stuff. You can make an occasional big cut but you don't want to cut big wood (over 12") very often. I use my husky almost daily.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Stihl yet.
That is the brand I was considering.

A friend has the Stihl and loves it. He has had it for a couple years now.

Thanks. I've been a huge fan of Stihl over the years, that's the route I would / will take.

remember to keep the batteries above 1/2 when storing the and store them the house or a heated building.

one of the biggest killers of the lithium batteries is run them down then store them cold for months.

they have to be at a minimum voltage or the charger won't even try to charge them.

these days you are buying the battery system as much as the tools with the available tools the Milwaukee is a very good battery platform to adopt , best to have batteries that work for many things and the Milwaukee do exactly that

it also looks like the Milwaukee uses Oregon bars and chains so you could put a shorter bar on it , my brothers little stihl was like a new saw when he want to the smaller bar manufactures tend to put more bar on a saw than you need , it sells people on the idea they can cut bigger wood while it really just creates more drag on the motor pulling chain over a longer bar , if 12 inches is the biggest you will really cut then a 12 or 14 inch bar is fine it also makes less expensive chains to have them shorter.

a spare bar and chain is always a good idea , if you don't have a spare saw , pinch the bar , unbolt it and bolt up the backup and carefully cut the weight off the pinched bar.

Are you sure about that?
I heard that about welding and In talking to my Doc they said that It wasn't true. I weld all the time and It has no effect on my pace maker.
Do you use a lawn mower or a snow blower? I don't see why the ignition systems would be any different then a chain saw ignition.

this is what OSU edu says
https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/AEX-981.8-10#:~:text=The%20precautions%20are%3A,is%20not%20near%20the%20handgrips.

The precautions are: The motor of an electric chain saw should be held 6 inches from the pacemaker. If using a gas-powered chain saw is absolutely necessary, the ignition system should never be within 12 inches of the pacemaker. Choose a machine where the spark plug is not near the handgrips

when you run the snow blower of log splitter you don't hug the saw

you don't hug the saw exactly with a chainsaw unless your working in tree or some felling operations , so if you had a good saw and kept it out and down you could keep the 12 inches

Did you ever try to take the bar/chain off when pinched? I could never get the tensioner to back off when that much pressure was applied- if I could even get to the tensioner.

Buddy of mine has a Stihl that he keeps in his side by side on his trapline.I was on a ride along with him one day and was pretty impressed with what it would do.

I have tens of thousands of dollars worth of stihl saws, after being unable to get parts from Germany for the pro model saws during covid i grew leery of stihl and that is why I went with husky for the electrics.

did it a couple times with my Stihl MS260

I might not have run my chain as tight

take the nuts off and then I could work the bar off the studs
then I bout a second saw

first time I got good and stuck and couldn't move what I was working on with a jack or wedge I unbolted , drove to the store bought a second bar and chain and drove back and very carefully cut so as not to get pinched again.