It was not stihl or Husqvarna, it may have been a Craftsman if i recall. N full.disclosure I have not used the stihl saw you mentioned.

This was probably 3 or 4 years ago... maybe the tech has improved since.

I believe this is what he ended up going with for the small light saw role.

https://www.husqvarna.com/us/p...saws/t435/966997232/

I have the DeWalt 16" and must say, doubt I will ever mess with my gas saws again. Both have been flawless, a 25 year old Homelite and a 20 year old Stihl. But the DeWalt is less work to get going, the batteries last and what's not to like?

A gas saw will be a little lighter and more powerful than a battery saw. For tasks like cutting firewood or limbing lots of trees I'll go to one of my gas saws.

What I find appealing about a good battery saw is how fast it can do the tasks I described earlier. Pick it up, pull the trigger and make a few cuts, then put it back in the UTV's bed. Contrast that to getting my gas saw choked, 3-6 pulls to get it started, give it a few blips to warm it and get the choke off, then start cutting.

Finally found a dealer that stocked these little saws while visiting family in NOVA (Dean at Virginia Tractor in Manassas) who gave me a little better package price on buying the saw, battery and charger. They had a nice selection of Stihl products as well as John Deere.

Ran it 3 minutes to break in the chain, per the manual (oops I never did this on my other saws or chains ) then took it out and cut some 2-8" fallen limbs and trees and as I hoped this little saw is great for clean up chores like that. Just pull trigger and cut, release trigger and the chain stops almost instantly.

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Originally posted by silverspyder1996:
I have been eyeing the new Milwaukee one myself. Has good reviews and I already own a plethora of M18 batteries.

Home Depot online has it with 2x 12ah batteries for $400.

Our lot is 4.3 acres, all in old growth trees. Lawn is small. So I need a chainsaw, bought an upgraded Poulon Pro, 20 inch, I think a 55 CC engine. Does a great job, but heavy for doing the smaller work. So I bought a 14 inch Poulon at Lowe's for $109. Great saw. light and surprisingly powerful. I think it is a 44 cc engine. We had a hell of a wind storm come through and it took down one oak tree that was 88 inches around the trunk just above the stump, and it took down a second oak that was 32 inches around. My son in law loaned me his 24 inch Stihl commercial saw for the really big stuff. All 3 of those saws got one helluva work out. That 14 inch saw is great for cutting up the smaller stuff, as well as some pretty good sized stuff.

Cordless might work well for doing the limbing, etc. But, given the size trees I have to deal with, I feel more comfortable with what I have.

^^^ Nice!

I can see where an RV user would have a use for the battery Stihl. At a lot of the Army Corps campgrounds are wooded sites with firepits if the trees are down or large limbs so much for buying firewood.

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Originally posted by SSgt USMC/Vet:
I can see where an RV user would have a use for the battery Stihl......

It'd be great to have at any campground that permits sawing up trees.

Mostly I'm going to carry it (along with a pair of loppers) in the back of the Mule, seems like almost every time I'm out on the trails having a small saw would be handy.

Cut some more this afternoon clearing mostly 1-3" trees and shrubs and battery is still 3 out of 4 lights charged. The narrow almost pointed 14" bar makes it really handy for cutting shrubs and limbing.