hey bros, anyone got some experience with these mini electric chainsaws? i found one online for $40, which is a suspiciously good price. it has a 4.4 score out of 1600 ratings.i would mainly be using it for light yard work, tree trimming and such. do these things work? are they cheap chinese crap that will fall apart after a month? any recs?
We have one of these threads every few months, comradeJust don't buy no name chinkshit and you'll be fine.
>>2871273ThisExcept it looks like you’re going to buy no name chinkshit, but it’s $40 so fuckin run it until it dies and then buy another one or spend the money on a real brand that will last a few years if you get enough use from it. If you buy anything like that from a no-name brand, it’s a guarantee the batteries are way under their rated capacity and will maybe last a year.
>>2871279>spend the money on a real brandok, i am looking at makita, which doesn't even come with a battery and dewalt which is 3x the price
>>2871285if you want an electric chainsaw buy a corded one and an extension cordthen just be careful you dont burn out the motor if you run for a long time
>>2871285Ok. Then get a cheap chinese ones with 1.2Ah capacity battery packs that die off to 500mAh after a couple dozen charge cycles and see if you find the thing so useful that you’re willing to drop ~$200 on a name brand pruner plus some 4.0Ah batteries that will last 5 years and a few hundred cycles or you’re ok using the $12 hand pruners instead.
>>2871287helpful answer>>2871288passive aggressive mocking tone born of sexual frustration and loneliness
>>2871287Doing yard work with corded tools is beyond annoying. I had a corded hedge trimmer and after moving into a house with thorny bushes, I trimmed the yard like twice with extension cords before I went and bought some Ryobi 18V batteries. So fucking worth it, a 4.0Ah Ryobi battery bought on sale is cheaper than the extension cord you will destroy when it gets tangled and then caught up in a blade.
>>2871289You want somebody to tell you your purchase of cheap chinesium won’t leave you with regret.That will not be me. My balls are still sticky from slapping against my wife’s fine latina pussy an hour ago, and I have made the mistake of dragging 100ft of extension cord around branches and ladders and I have witnessed how shitty no-name lithium batteries always are compared to the real thing. The $40 pruning saw will probably handle light duty work for a summer or two, but the batteries will be bricks fairly quickly if you actually run the thing much. So the $40 is basically the cost of a trial run for a year or so until you decide if you want to drop the money on a better one or go procure more cheap chinese batteries to run another 8 months
>>2871272I have one very similar to what you posted. It's very good for the price, but I use original Makita batteries with it. The batteries they will give you in the $40 packs will be very weak (in that the tool itself will be weaker than it should be because the battery can't supply enough current) and will fail quickly and discharge quickly. Even then, for the low price they are asking, you might as well give it a shot, but I recommend getting one that takes Makita batteries, so you can potentially upgrade later. The tool itself (the one I got) is decently built, it has one major flaw that the blade guide gets eaten up by the chain very quickly near the tip if you drive it hard. As long as you pay attention to it and sand it flat now-and-then, it's fine. Buy one that has the oiler shit on the top, supposedly the ones without it have issues with oil distribution.Battery-wise, maybe eventually consider getting at least large 5Ah knockoff Makitas, if not original.
At that size, why not buy a one-handed or even two-handed reciprocating saw/sawzall/tiger saw/whateveryoucallitinyourcountry saw with a long 9-12" carbide tipped blade for clean wood? Bonus that it can do a whole lot more at that. Or buy a big sharp silky handsaw. I don't get the point of a small chainsaw.
>>2871329>I don't get the point of a small chainsaw.trimming trees with thin branches, but would still take hours with a handsaw. smaller, so easier to store, lighter, more maneuverable
>>2871329Sawzall is slower cutting, heavier and shakes your hand the entire time. I have both and the mini chainsaw is generally better to use. Downside is having to fuck with the chain and oiling sometimes.
This is what you really need, sonny.
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>>2871290I worked for a DeWalt rep. House FULL of tools, big sprinter van full of brand new tools. I was doing yard work. He has a dozen of 12 Ah Flex volt batteries. The pruner is great. He asks me to cut down a tree, lends me a barely used chainsaw. I've used gas chainsaws a few times in the past. This one worked great since the blade was pretty much new, but I had it stall once or twice, then it would invariably stall whenever I would press a little too much on it. Junk. Unusable. I tried with a bunch different batteries. He'll have to return it.
Also I've been having really bad luck with all my DeWalt tools. They all have their quirks. Brand new drill, once in a while will spin forward once when the switch is set to reverse. I have it on video. Plus on all the new tools: if you hover the button to get the light to turn on, the whole tool will "shutdown" after ten seconds and you have to let go of the button before pressing again to get any response. What kind of behavior is that? When I go full throttle it should fucking send it, no questions asked.
>>2871290Lol, are you me? Funnily enough, when I went to my first battery tool(don't remember if it was my hedge Trimmer or weed eater), there was an old man there having the exact opposite conversation with his wife. >Martha, I'm tired of dealing with charging these batteries, or dealing with mixing gas. I'm going all corded.OP, you might be fine with a hackzall or Sawzall. I've wanted a Sawzall for awhile, but have literally never had a need for anything stronger than my m18 hackzall.
>>2871336u have my attention. how well does it work?
>>2871491Mixing gas isn’t the annoying part, it’s the clogged carbs ans cracked fuel lines and primer bulbs.And having to charge the batteries hasn’t really been an issue since lithium came along as long as you use the tools once every couple months. NiCd was annoying because the battery had to go on the charger a couple hours whenever you wanted to do something, but lithium holds a charge and if the battery is dead, pop it on the charger for 20min and you will have 2 bars at least.
>>2871496>black and deckerits shit
>>2871496Yea from your favorite reasonable poster, that B&D thing is for like your arthritic grandmother who is afraid of a sawzall. It’s is literally a “My First Reciprocating Saw” and makes no sense for anybody who knows what a sawzall is.
>>2871423i had to warranty the whipper snipper (string trimmer for mutts) at 11 months due to it dying, and then 13 months later it died so i bought a new onelots of people online saying the issue is the solid state components that just randomly fail and there's no way to fix it yourself like a mechanical part, i pulled it apart and nothing was physically wrong with it, but it has a small black microcontroller insidethe only other weird issue i have is the basic mower sometimes refuses to start without an arcane ritual of alternating button presses/safety levering
>>2871272I used imoum 6in minichainsaw, very similar to your pic, worked really nice, perfect for stuff you cant get at with normal chainsaw, doesn't shake stuff like reciprocating, battery holds up pretty good if you don't overuse it and it does dig in whole 6 inches, somewhat slowly, sure, but it works.Ideal if you go gardening as a job.
>>2871272Climb up ladder, lean awkwardly into an inaccessible position reach and cut a small (1-2 inch) branch away from where it was causing a problem. Its the best for that, which is a common situation for me.
>>2871272During the clean up of the Christmas night storm that hit Mt Tambourine, I noticed that Stihl had released a 12v pruning saw that used Milwaukee batteries.
>>2871272I use a cordless reciprocating saw (sawzall) with a pruning blade. Works well up to six inches in diameter. For real work, I have a Stihl chainsaw.
>>2873500If anybody goes the sawzall route, I shill picrel with great confidence. I have them in 6”, 9”, and 12” now and they still work great despite having some miles on them. Regular all purpose demo blades are so slow in green wood compared to these Diablos, and I tried a different non-carbide pruning blade before that was good for awhile but was smoking in 1/4 the cuts I have on the Diablo blades.Small chainsaw is still a little smoother in some spots depending on the type of wood, but the one thing the recip saw with the pruning blades does great is roots. Stick that 12” down in the dirt after you’re sure there’s no wires or pipes or sprinklers, pull the trigger, and run a perimeter around the spot you’re trying to dig. So much nicer than trying to bust 1”+ thick roots with a shovel.Also Home Depot also has those carbide tipped pruners in a 1+1 pack for near the price of one blade, or as a “bonus” in some of the $15-$25 multi-packs with a bunch of other bimetal blades. I recommend maybe the 9” to start or the 6” if it’s mostly smaller branches, the 12” is kind of long if you’re trimming in a tree and you don’t want to bend a blade hitting another branch.
>>2873514>the one thing the recip saw with the pruning blades does great is roots.Never done it in this way, but from experience dealing with roots I could believe it, pruning hand saw works well like that, so reciprocating also should. How well do blades hold in such dirt work?
>>2873521The carbide tipped Diablo blades hold up quite well. Just know the depth you’re trying to go and don’t jam the tip into a rock where you bend the thing and it will work fine. Those are my most used blades with general homeowner stuff, and I tend to smoke bimetal blades quite quickly, but I have yet to retire any of these after a couple years of maybe once a month use. They last forever in green wood as long as the carbide teeth aren’t breaking off.The one disclaimer- the first couple cuts are going to leave red paint beind. So like if you have a big tree in your front yard and you want to take a limb off with the brand new blade, make the first couple cuts somewhere that’s not facing the front where every guest will see it. I still have red marks on my mango tree from 2 years ago where I chopped a limb right above eye height.
>>2873535Yeah............. unlike the diablo circular saws, the paint/coating on their sawzall blades wear off after like a few cuts.
i bought an 8" m18 pruning saw and it's a beast.
