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This is really the problem. I was mid cut felling a 40' pine when I ran out of battery power and had to wait for the backup battery to finish charging so I cou
by knappe 2y ago
This is really the problem. I was mid cut felling a 40' pine when I ran out of battery power and had to wait for the backup battery to finish charging so I could finish the cut, which was incredibly nerve racking because I was taking down a tree in my backyard but it abutted an area the neighborhood used as a walkway. I even had to redirect a few people who were trying to use the walkway for fear of killing someone if the tree fell while I was waiting.
My electric chainsaw has seem a lot of work, but you really have to be sure you have enough batteries to get the job done.
- 20after4 2y agoA rope or two, tied off in just the right places, could eliminate most of the danger by controlling where the tree is able to fall.
- knappe 2y agoYep, I had already done that. But I wasn't confident that it would fall the right direction since the winds typically blow in the opposite direction of where I had intended it to fall. And I had 60 feet of fence 4 feet from the tree stump that I really didn't want it to fall on
- dyauspitr 2y ago3 is the magic number in my experience. They’re comfortably done charging at that point. I have a lot of M18 fuel tools so I happen to have a bunch of those batteries around. The experience is so much better than gas though. No terrible fumes, no continuously filling up two different tanks every 30 minutes, relatively quiet, no flooded engines, no having to pull start 20 times in cold weather, no dealing with fuel filters and worry about leaving gas in the tank.