And if you’re a forestry worker your saw will be your livelihood, it’ll be an expensive piece of kit and you’ll maintain it to within an inch of its life. You’ll use it, put it away in the garage, and a year later when you pull it out again it’ll be ready to go after a bit of fettling. If you are a very occasional chainsaw user the chances are your saw will never be challenged. So why do we load a generator on the back of the tractor and set upon fallen branches with a power cable trailing behind us when we could do it to the buzz of a 2-stroke motor? The answers are simple enough: maintenance and safety. You won’t be surprised then to find that my dad has had more than one chainsaw over the years, but you may be surprised to find that this long experience has led us to rely on electric saws exclusively for the last couple of decades. Branches come down, pieces of hedge need taming, and with a hungry woodburner to satisfy, firewood needs to be cut. “I’ve Got A Bran’ New Chainsaw, You’ve got 43!” 1Ī small British farm is not a forestry business, but it’s fair to say that a chainsaw is a tool that sees fairly regular use. But electric chainsaws? Here on this small farm, they’re the saw of choice and here’s why. I’m with him on cordless tools which I see as a cynical ploy from manufacturers to ensure 5-yearly replacements, and I agree that cheap tools are a false economy. It was his line “ Now, we’d normally shy away from any electric chainsaw, especially a cordless saw, and doubly so a Harbor Freight special“. Our differing backgrounds were recently highlighted by a piece from my colleague in which he covered the teardown of a cordless electric chainsaw. Here at Hackaday we are a diverse bunch, we all bring our own experience to the task of bringing you the best of the hardware scene.
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