FYI The Tool & Implement Thread
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Yeah, here shortly I’ve gotta trim the driveway close to the house. Limbs hang low after the rain, delivery trucks aren’t clearing them anymore. It’s been a couple years since I’ve trimmed them.Yup, I have the battery pole saw. Looking for the pruner like Jamie mentioned. I don't want to take away all of the cover, just enough to clear the camper in the driveway.
@Hedgelj I second the "winter storage" considerations. Be sure to keep it from freezing or winterize it somehow. I went thru 2 of the Sam's Club/box store variety and truly didn't get $50 in use out of $250-350 pressure washers. They were stored in a heated shop. The little pumps were junk. I bought a Stihl and it has been great (knock on wood.) I still (no pun intended) use it like a home owner. Just my personal stuff for the most part. Drain the hose and wand every time. Store it away. It has a separate pump so I am hoping it can be replaced if needed versus box store variety which was thrown together with obsolete pumps they were getting rid of when they made it.
Second nod on the Fiskars. Or find a similar knock off if you are seriously only using it once a year or two.
Second nod on the Fiskars. Or find a similar knock off if you are seriously only using it once a year or two.
I ended up walking in to the local hardware store and talked with the guys there. Ordered one that'll be here Thursday.
So I finally bit the bullet after the tree in the yard. Got me one of these saws. Found the tool only for $250. I have put it to work and it'll work. This job was big for this, to big. But I knew that going in and didn't really care to tackle it all at once. It'll run a long time on a single battery (5 amp hour) if cutting 6-10" branches. It'll run longer than you want to hold it with the big battery (12). My thirst got the best of me more than once with this battery.
Bad report would be that it doesn't like back cutting. She bucks around and beats on you. Guessing it is because it doesn't seem to have a clutch like a normal saw. The other drawback would be that it eats batteries on the logs that are the size of the bar.
In the end, I am very impressed for what it is and happy I finally made the purchase. Great for limbing and average homeowner use. Not a good purchase for a guy with a wood burning stove tackling trees. Unless you only used it to limb out a tree. No ear plugs needed!
Do not even mess around with the smaller batteries. These saws were designed to run off the 5 or larger. I was having fits with the 3. Research told me I was the problem using the small batteries.
Back in the spring when I was able to start cutting firewood I bought the Stihl MSA 220 and another battery. I figured it would be a little easier on me for a lot of the stuff the township left behind when they cut a bunch of my trees. Great saw for cutting anything too big for a hand saw and limbing felled trees. If I'm cutting anything under 12", I'll get the quiet saw out for sure. For serious cutting, I'll be sticking with the 290, although Stihl has a battery powered saw now that will run a 20" bar...
The Milwaukee saw is handy, but only for small jobs that you want to tackle quickly. Limbing and chunking minor logs, it’s great. Dropping and processing trees… definitely grab a real saw.
That I'm running from a simulator! Sounds like a great retirement gig.What's next, a solar powered excavator?
Not a "must have" tool but sure is handy. Milwaukee and DeWalt have them around $125-130 with no battery. If you have the number of tires spread out all over the place like I do, this is awesome. Flat tire on an ATV or mower in a building with no power? Put enough in there to make it to your air compressor. I filled up a race truck tire to 16# to test it out. It was flat but not off the bead. Didn't take a terrible amount of time to inflate. They definitely won't put a tire back in the bead. Just saw one for $107 after I spent $127 last week. Go figure. Lol.
For all you guys adding cordless tools to your arsenal if equipment, this may not be a bad addition. I suspect mine will be used the most for racing. Be handy to not drag an air hose out 50' or have to fire a generator up to fill the air compressor. It will inflate plenty of mower tires too though. Wheel barrow. Bed edger. Rototiller. Trailer tires. I'll wear it out.
For all you guys adding cordless tools to your arsenal if equipment, this may not be a bad addition. I suspect mine will be used the most for racing. Be handy to not drag an air hose out 50' or have to fire a generator up to fill the air compressor. It will inflate plenty of mower tires too though. Wheel barrow. Bed edger. Rototiller. Trailer tires. I'll wear it out.
The guys looking for a electric saw if your a buy once cry once kind of guy check out the husky. We were running this along with a new 562 and I couldn't believe how awesome the saw was. Has a 16 inch bar and we never had to change the battery out with three different guys using it. About $650 but no fuel just bar oil. Light as hell and no hearing protection needed.
No problem. We had a big mulberry down and it did everything we needed it to. Even getting the 562 unstuck from making bad cuts lol. We were chipping and cutting that's why three different hands on it. We got to a big ash and I said I'm going to try the electric on it. It bucked the whole thing. Four trees later and the battery still had one bar on it.
Buried the bar had to do a double cut. Even did a plunge cut with it. It has torque.
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Forgot to post but I finally got my new roll cart in last week! Great little box for around 1000 bucks.
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Was the MAC comparable? When I worked in a shop in Columbus, we had both trucks show up weekly. MAC seemed comparable but a little less $$