My backyard is an overgrown nightmare and I'm looking to get a small chainsaw to cut back well everything. Anyone had any experience with electric chainsaws?
My backyard is an overgrown nightmare and I'm looking to get a small chainsaw to cut back well everything. Anyone had any experience with electric chainsaws?
I've used a small battery-powered one for limbing trees. Its meant to be put on a boom for pruning, but I used it on the ground. It handled branches smaller than 2" alright. Anything larger than that I'd go for a gas one. Can't comment on corded models, they might be better.
If you have your own yard, I'd just invest in an gas powered one with a 16" bar.
I had one. Just a cheapo I bought at Home Depot.
It was useful for small projects. But wouldn't be great for bigger stuff. If all you have is heavy shrubs or lighter fruit tree branches and such, it shouldn't be a problem. I wouldn't put a lot of faith in it for heavy tree type things though.
Its for heavy shrubs, the mango tree can be done by the professionals, don't want any of those branches falling on the roof!
I'd say you'd be okay. Just my opinion though, maybe someone else has a better idea. Mine worked fine for small things around my suburban house, but when I lent it to neighbor who lost a tree in a wind storm, it didn't stand up to 'real' lumberjack stuff - LOL.
Well my mother has one(god knows why because I have to use it and I can bring my petrol saw). They are great for anything from a finger size to maybe 4-5 inches diameter. They do still require chain maintenance. The cheaper brand my mother got has a huge problem with the chain coming loose regularly and gets blocked easily.
I don't own one but I borrowed one once. It was a plug-in and an older model (don't recall the brand). Worked great for the stuff around the house.