Woot has
20" Milwaukee M18 FUEL 18V Brushless Cordless Dual Battery Chainsaw Kit w/ (2) 8.0 Ah FORGE Batteries & Dual Bay Rapid Charger on sale for
$699.99.
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Features:
- Generates 5.8HP peak power to take on demanding applications and 9.5Nm of peak torque to reduce stalls for faster cutting
- Fully compatible with the M18 System, featuring over 250+ tools
- Dual metal bucking spikes for increased control and leverage while cutting
- High visibility perpendicular and horizontal sight lines for increased felling accuracy
- Inertia chain brake provides added kickback protection
- Onboard scrench storage for adjustments to bar and chain
- Guide bar rail cleaner integrated into scrench
- Captured bar nuts retained to sprocket cover for quick adjustments reducing downtime
- Variable speed trigger provides full control over power output
- Automatic oiler keeps saw lubricated in application
Includes:
- M18 FUEL Dual Battery Chainsaw (2827-22)
- (2) REDLITHIUM FORGE XC8.0 Batteries (48-11-1881)
- M18 Simultaneous Dual Bay Rapid Charger (48-59-1802)
- Scabbard, and Scrench
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Electric has made big strides in small saws but for a big saw I go gasoline.
Gas is great if you're consistently cutting large logs in to sections for splitting etc.
Electric is great if you do large logs infrequently (one tree a day) or doing general trimming maintenance in the woods.
I love the electric for cleaning up our trails. Mount it to the atv, put it off and it cuts right away. No messing with warm up or starting.
That said, when we do a bunch of large trees or cutting into rounds for splitting, gas is the way.
My only worry on this is the battery size you would need to make it useful for any length of time in applications where you actually NEED a 20" saw. You feel the unbalancedness in the 14" if you aren't in the sweet spot with battery weight, i have to imagine that is only amplified more in a 20" with a smaller sweet spot.. You can see with the battery setup how this was already a concern with the design.
While ordinarily would say if you are going to have one saw, bigger is better, but if handling this thing is like i imagine it would be, you are defeating the purpose here going to electric, because if most of your cutting is stuff you could get by with a 14 or 16 on, and you only need the 20 once every year or two, you would be hating life pulling this thing out every time for your day to day stuff.
Milwaukee frequently proves me wrong when I think something is still a few years out on the tech, but i feel like this one is still a bit early and they were trying to be first to market with it, which rarely ends up being good in situations like this.
Gas is great if you're consistently cutting large logs in to sections for splitting etc.
Electric is great if you do large logs infrequently (one tree a day) or doing general trimming maintenance in the woods.
I love the electric for cleaning up our trails. Mount it to the atv, put it off and it cuts right away. No messing with warm up or starting.
That said, when we do a bunch of large trees or cutting into rounds for splitting, gas is the way.
Anything that i'd NEED a 20" on though, i think the tradeoff's with going battery are still going to outweigh the pros, especially when you consider how rough a chainsaw is on the batteries and the cost of the ones you need to really take advantage of the saw. And i'm a huge advocate of ditching gas stuff where you can in the yard.
A good, pro-sumer or light commercial gas one comparable to this ones specs, outside of its CC number which is a silly thing to compare them on, can easily be had under 500 bucks (it looks like a Stihl 271 would stack up very comparably to it, and that is pretty much the gold standard of saws of this class).
And then of course if you are the kind of person who NEEDS a chainsaw, you are probably someone like me who is worried about downed trees in storms and the such, you probably will still want to keep a big gas one around for those situations.
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80v should be more powerful
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