Battery powered chainsaw

ArlyA · Oct 17, 2023

WinterDeere said:
I can second that. Kombi KM 131 R engine, with bed redefiner, string trimmer, hedge trimmer, pole saw, and a smattering of extensions. Very useful bit of kit for getting done just about anything around the house.

A pole saw can also be useful for cutting branches under high or unpredictable loading, from big blown-down trees, while keeping you a few feet outside the firing zone. I've known more than one case of someone getting taken out by such scenarios, being too close to the work, when pressure released differently than predicted or expected.

And that pole saw like on the Kombi is far, far less heavy and is user friendly that those extendable types.

John_Mc · Oct 17, 2023

WinterDeere said:
A pole saw can also be useful for cutting branches under high or unpredictable loading, from big blown-down trees, while keeping you a few feet outside the firing zone. I've known more than one case of someone getting taken out by such scenarios, being too close to the work, when pressure released differently than predicted or expected.

Storm damage clean up is one of the more dangerous aspects of working in the woods - at least if you are working without the benefit of large machines. It's time consuming, and a lot of those pressures can be hard to read.

ultrarunner · Oct 17, 2023

Twice I have walking in heavily forested areas on calm as could be sunny day and one a very tall tree about a 100 feet just fell over… it did have a little lean and another time in similar conditions the entire top half keeled over…

Camofurever1 · Oct 17, 2023

I have a widow maker on the side of one of my main trails. A scaley bark hickory snapped off about 40' up the main trunk, but is still hinge connected to the lower trunk. The top is almost touching the ground. Still debating how I am going to pull that one down. I really dont want to connect onto the tree on the main trail with my tractor. I thought about weaving my tractor into the woods and start pulling on the bottom of the top section about 50' away into the woods. When it comes down and bounces in my direction, I would have the rest of the trees to shield it from possibly hitting me. Plus, at 50' out, that should be longer than the broken section.

Fuddyduddy1952 · Oct 17, 2023

Maybe a picture or two?
I had a tree break here way up high, puzzled over it, then in brought it down with five 12ga slugs in a row across split.

5030 · Oct 17, 2023

Fuddyduddy1952 said:
Maybe a picture or two?
I had a tree break here way up high, puzzled over it, then in brought it down with five 12ga slugs in a row across split.

One time (back when ammo was cheap), I sawed down a tree with a 12 gauge pump but the cut was pretty ragged.

Oaktree · Oct 17, 2023

Eagle1 said:
I'm not up for all day land clearing, but once I have logs piled up for bucking I can run through several tanks getting them short. Now the splitting requires a break after every tank of fuel.

Just the opposite here. I'm ready for a break after one tank of cutting up, but for me splitting is a piece of cake. Then again, a tank lasts a lot longer in the splitter than with the saw.

5030 · Oct 18, 2023

We don't heat with wood, never have so all the trees I cut down get cut into saw logs and piled up next to the barn and I have a friend in the campground firewood business, so I load his GN trailer with the saw logs and he processes them. I always have a pile of saw logs here for the taking, most all hardwood as well. Small stuff gets roasted (under 3" diameter).

California · Oct 18, 2023

Re battery pole saws, I have a lot of Ryobi 18volt shop stuff so I bought the matching pole saw.

Don't.

It cuts ok, slowly, but adding the extension wand feels so flimsy that it feels like just leaning into the work to cut faster could snap it off. Reviews I've read verify this is a real problem.

Buy something else.

And in contrast to this, the Ryobi 18 volt chainsaw is fine for light work. Nearly all of my use is removing dead limbs or bucking hollow trunks in my apple orchard and its fine for that. Heaviest thing I've cut with it was a 10 inch eucalyptus (tough!) that fell across a haul path and I thought this might smoke it but that didn't hurt it any. It's no match for a gas saw but its a good match to what I need.