New Milwaukee top handle

[altatim]

I personally really like the standard M18 chainsaw for small tasks and limbing. It doesn't compare with a good gas saw, but if you keep it sharp its good up to about 6" before you really notice it slowing down your pace. Just keep that in mind, its also very low maintenance so it what it loses in performance it makes up for there. And if you are going to use it a lot, if anything breaks in the first 5 years Milwaukee will replace the tool for free (even catastrophic failure as long as it wasn't abused or dropped in a lake, etc). I've taken back tools that have seen 3000-4000 hours of use (construction) and our local service centre has just handed me a new tool because it was less than 5 years old no questions asked.

 

[ElevatorGuy]

I personally really like the standard M18 chainsaw for small tasks and limbing. It doesn't compare with a good gas saw, but if you keep it sharp its good up to about 6" before you really notice it slowing down your pace. Just keep that in mind, its also very low maintenance so it what it loses in performance it makes up for there. And if you are going to use it a lot, if anything breaks in the first 5 years Milwaukee will replace the tool for free (even catastrophic failure as long as it wasn't abused or dropped in a lake, etc). I've taken back tools that have seen 3000-4000 hours of use (construction) and our local service centre has just handed me a new tool because it was less than 5 years old no questions asked.

I hear that, for my uses for it I think it should be perfect. If I need bigger, The stihls have all those needs covered.

 

[ElevatorGuy]

Either way I’m tempted to pick one up, they seem like sweet saws on youtube, but youtube can be a lot different from reality

It should be here tomorrow, probably won’t try it out until this weekend. I have a tree huggin neighbor that hates when I fire the gas saws. She won’t hear this at all haha.

 

[ElevatorGuy]

Used it a bit tonight, Took down 2 beech spawns first and cut all of them up. 8.0 battery still showing 4 bars. Then I moved onto this dead oak blow down that’s been in my woods/ creek area for many years. I’m impressed with it, The 4 big cuts in the oak dropped it down to 2 bars.

 

[Seachaser]

HD had them as the deal of the day a couple of weeks ago. $200 off so I said why not? Gave it a good workout trimming out the undergrowth so I could get to the big stuff tomorrow. 2”-6” stuff is it’s wheelhouse. Pretty impressive.

 

[ElevatorGuy]

HD had them as the deal of the day a couple of weeks ago. $200 off so I said why not? Gave it a good workout trimming out the undergrowth so I could get to the big stuff tomorrow. 2”-6” stuff is it’s wheelhouse. Pretty impressive.

Yep, Grabbed mine from them.