zogger
Tree Freak
----you'd be surprised my friend. I can get a decent load of smaller stuff going out in the woods with mine. Done it, proved it, it is on my review thread with pics. I have three batteries to use as well, and a tank of bar oil lasts all three.
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And looking at a lot of vids of firewooding in europe, and also splitting vids showing similar smaller diameter and a lot of small conifers and small deciduous, inside those planned forests, and not wasting anything, I would think it could work for a lot of guys as the small saw on a multi saw plan.
I use mine all the time, going to use it this afternoon when I go out. Ya, I will use larger gas saws, but I *am* going to be using the batt saw as well.
I haven't tried the other ones yet, but the Oregon has crossed the threshold into "useful tool" status as regards battery operated saws, similar to when battery operated drills finally crossed a threshold. I know I was an early adopter of battery powered drills and they were hella expensive compared to plug ins, but I saw the potential, how cool it was, and got the benefits of using them on the job, making money with them, and now they are so common practically everyone who uses tools has one. And they are a lot better today..because electric tech and especially battery tech keeps improving. but it *won't* if people are narrow minded and can't see the possibilities.
And multi tool systems using the same battery really open up the practicality of such devices.
I was an early adopter of home personal computers, and sure, compared to today they are underpowered and were pretty expensive back then, but tell ya what, they hit a plateau finally and got wayyy practical and affordable, but it never would have happened without the early adopters. We are here now having the most amazing communications tool ever developed, because of early adopters, despite a lot of their peers at the time kvetching and moaning about this or that.
Besides, the real old manly way to do firewood was a cross cut and double bit axe, and if anyone wants to be he-man macho about it and put down new tech, then don't use any sort of chainsaw, not even an ancient old heavy one. Great grandpa would have called ya a wuss for not being able to do a normal day's work without using some stinky loud gas burning cheater tool.
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