We had a big storm come through last night. Some parts of the state had winds over 90 mph. Lots of downed branches and a few broken tree trunks at our place. Bought the Lynxx 40 v bar pole saw, based on the reviews I read right here. I also bought a spare battery. I have to say I'm impressed. I put the new battery on the charger as soon as I got home, and by the time I had the saw assembled, bar oil in it, put 2 stroke gas in my "big" gas saw, (and visited with the neighbor a bit on his damage), the battery was charged. I then put the spare battery on, thinking I would need it today.
I cut a LOT of branches down with this saw today. Some were big enough I had no business using that little cordless saw on, but it cut them anyway. Some I was at full pole extension, and tip toe (I'm 6'1") and one handing the reach to hit the branch even. I did use my big gas chain saw on all the really big stuff, and most of what I could reach with it while standing on the ground. I probably put 5 or 6 hrs of run time on the little Lynxx pole saw today, and I'm still cutting with the first charged battery, haven't needed to swap batteries yet.
Only "weird" thing on the charger is, the green light starts blinking as soon as you plug it into AC power, and it doesn't stop blinking until you put in a battery pack. When you're done charging and take the battery off, the green light blinks constantly from then on, until you unplug it from AC power. There's also a cooling fan in the charger that is loud enough (I'm hard of hearing) that I could hear it from 10 feet away standing outside the shop door. Not "knocking" it, it was just different is all.
I did like that the battery pack has a charge indicator that you can press a button and see how much charge is left in the battery pack. That was a nice touch I thought. So, initial review is I like the tool, and I've already run the BeeGeezuss out of it in one day.
