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Getting away from gas powered stuff and am hoping for some opinions on the battery powered chainsaw and string trimmer. I dont use either very often and am tired of dealing with the problems from not using enough or storing properly. Kobalt and ryobi both are offering 40v models in my price range. Seems to be more bad reviews of the bump feed on the kobalt string trimmer. Anybody have these that has an opinion

I bought a Milwaukee 18V with the 8AH battery this spring. I'll never go back to screwing around with two stroke gas again. Battery lasts about 40 minutes of trimming grass and weeds around the fish tank. Extra battery is about $130, give or take. That keeps you going continuously for as long as you can stand.

Not wildly exited about the Milwaukee trimmer head, but it gets the job done, and is always ready to go. It gets grabbed now to get things trimmed down way more than the walk behind gas string mower.

but you will have to keep buying replacement batteries every few years at $130 or so...

Milwaukee all the way for normal stuff even a chainsaw to trim and small trees, but want my 026 farm boss for major tree cutting or logs, more power faster etc’

I have a 40 volt ryobi chainsaw and a 40 volt ryobi trimmer. Milwaukee and dewalt are probably better units but I decided the ryobi was the best compromise of price and quality. I am pleased with both of them and would purchase them again. The chainsaw will cut a lot of wood if you keep the chain sharp. As soon as the chain starts getting dull the battery life is reduced significantly. Sure beats messing with gasoline and oil. I would Stihl be pulling on my other two chainsaws when I am cutting wood with the battery saw.

Read the reviews for sure. Nearly every chainsaw I looked at leaked bar oil badly according to the reviews. Bought one for my dad. Ended up getting a Milwaukee & so far, so good. My son bought me a 40v black & Decker trimmer about 3 hrs ago. I was skeptical at first, but I really like it. For a small piece of property battery powered is nice.

I have a Ryobi line trimmer.that I like well enough, A friend gave me a Ego line trimmer that I like even better. The Ego trimmer head uses a double line and the auto advance actually works, plenty of power and battery life.

I spent $350 on an electric Chainsaw because I was tired of buying gas Chainsaws and have them not run when I needed them to run
It was an Huskavarna Or how ever you spell it
I burned it up on the 1t tree I tried cutting down.
I now own 2 Stihl saws and use the premix Ethanol free fuel.
I have seen the Stihl Battery operated masonry block saw on a job site I was working on
They went threw 3 battery's a day and they limited their use for the block on the scaffold all the major cuts were done on the ground with a big saw.
Some days they had to get the gas powered saw out to finish the day because their Battery operated saw ran out of battery's.

I guess if you have small stuff to cut up the Battery Chainsaws would be OK.
Not for me thou When i need my saws I want them to kick butt fast so I can put them back away and the premix fuels do not go bad they say.

Milwaukee M18 - 8ah batteries.

I bought a new Husquavana electric last year. Opted for 100 dollar battery upgrade. Ran it once and charged the battery. Put charged battery back in the saw and tried to use it a month later. Zero battery, and it would not charge. Took it to the husq dealer and he gave me a new battery. Checked it worked, and a couple weeks later it was 100% dead. Everything is back at the dealer now. I think he will just give me a new one. I think the saw is never 100% off and it is killing batteries. I was going to go electric, but this has been a bad experience.

Horse crap. I've got Milwaukee batteries that have served for six years so far, on everything from skill saws, grease guns, drivers, 1/2" driver, drills. Getting used every week of the year, well below freezing to scorching hot. Never a hitch with any of them.

Other brands, not so lucky. Ridgid (Home Depot brand) especially sucks. I've had no luck with Dewalt, either. But these Milwaukee 18V batteries just keep going. I kept records on one of my drivers, It's driven over 160,000 screws so far.

I just picked up a Dewalt flex volt chainsaw,works good so far.
I only use my gas saw about 2-3 times a year and always have issues,
I did get a Husvarna string trimmer a few years back and only buy the premix fuel and that's fine.
I do like just throwing a battery on and cutting.

We have a 20V Dewalt chainsaw that's fine.

I bought a Stihl FSA57 battery string trimmer recently. So far, I have to say I am very impressed.

I have a Dewalt string trimmer. Check into them as they are pretty solid.

My only battery powered experience is Stihl lawn mower, hedge trimmer and trimmer I’ve had for about a year. If I were mowing a golf course I’d go back to gas. Residential, never. I get about 2/3 of my mowing done with one battery, switch out in 30 seconds and go. I’ve never used a whole battery charge with the trimmer or hedge trimmer.

I went with Stihl because my multi-source review consistently found significantly greater satisfaction with Stihl than the other brands, including Husqvarna.

My chain saws are now with my sons. If I were still living up north and heating with wood, I’d still be running gas saws. As it is, if I had need of a homeowner saw for typical homeowner jobs, I’d get a Stihl electric in a heartbeat.

I have a 40 volt grass string trimmer that I bought at Canadian Tire. It runs for 70 minutes on a charge, and works good in heavy slugging. The brand name is Green Works. Nice balance, not overly heavy. I also have a Stihl gas powered trimmer with the handle bars on it. That thing is a beast, but it is heavy, and I ain't nearly as tough as I used to pretend to be. As far as a chain saw, I suppose an electric would be fine for small jobs, but when I wade into some 12-15 inch birch or ash there's nothing like a Husqvarna or Stihl gas unit.

Just MHO.

All chainsaws leak. It's they way the oil pumps work. The reviewers don't know much about saws.

It may or may not matter to you but just as a FYI - the cutting diameter is usually not as wide on battery powered string trimmers as comparable size gasoline powered ones.

I just bought the Makita string trimmer and blower combo. So far it has worked good. I trimmed my whole yard and only dropped one bar on my 18v 6ah battery. I have all Makita tools and at least 8 batteries. I’m not going to run out of power before I run out of lawn. The Makita trimmer isn’t a beast like my old Red Max gas trimmer was but it gets it done and I don’t have to mess with mixed gas and hard starting because it has sat unused. If I didn’t have all the other tools and batteries I probably would have bought another gas trimmer.

Another big plus is the Makita is much quieter and I don’t reek of gasoline afterwards.