That 139min charge time is a load of crud, the charger he used (which comes with the kit) is where dewalt cheaped out. You need the 4 or 8 amp charger on the larger AH batteries to get any sort of reasonable charge times. I recently got the 20 volt 12" dewalt saw off ebay for light work, sans charger. Came with a 6AH battery. The charger I had took hours to charge it. Lowes had a sale on 5AH batteries and a 4 amp charger. Now it barely takes a half hour to charge the 5or6 AH batteries. And with the bigget saw, or any power hungry tools, the 8 amp fast charger (costs around $100.00) would make perfect sense. So I feel in that respect, specifically because i have a lot of dewalt tools already the proper charger to charge the bigger batteries would make sense over the crappy 1 or 2 amp charger it came with.Very interesting results. I actually expected the Stihl to come out near the top in cut times given the price point of the saw. The fact that the Dewalt and the Echo mopped the floor with it is likely going to cause some internal reviews at Stihl. This channel now has a subscriber base of 1.5 million so I'm sure someone has already received an email at corporate haha.
I'd go for the echo if it wasn't so heavy...Lot of weight there. Not thrilled with the Dewalt charge times (139min??). Hmm, I'll wait to see what the pro Husky electric saw can do.