{"id":75790,"date":"2024-08-16T09:16:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T13:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=75790"},"modified":"2024-08-16T09:16:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T13:16:00","slug":"i-bought-an-electric-chainsaw-heres-what-showed-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=75790","title":{"rendered":"I bought an electric chainsaw. Here’s what showed up (and how it worked)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My dad has been looking at electric chainsaws for a while but hadn\u2019t pulled the trigger on one, and so being the good son I am (especially since he lets me send weird Chinese electric vehicles<\/a> to his property), I decided to buy one for him. There are a few electric chainsaws out there, but I\u2019ve heard good things about Ego\u2019s tools and so I decided to try one of those. A couple clicks on Amazon and a few days later, a shiny green Ego Power+ 18-inch 56 volt electric chainsaw<\/a> showed up at the door.<\/p>\n

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I went for the 18-inch chainsaw model because I figured it would be big enough for pretty much anything he needs to do around his property, and it\u2019s a little bit more robust than the company\u2019s smaller models.<\/p>\n

My dad doesn\u2019t have any other Ego tools, so this meant he\u2019ll have to to wrangle yet another charger and battery standard into his garage, but I guess those are just the times we live in. Since this particular tool was a gift, I figure he won\u2019t mind making room on his battery shelf for yet another color of power tool batteries. <\/p>\n

And while it\u2019s technically his saw now, he let me commandeer it upon arrival so I could spend a day with it and review its performance. <\/p>\n

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The first test was definitely not a walk in the park. He\u2019s had a pile of telephone poles on his property for a few years and some of them have gotten pretty nasty to the point where they\u2019re not really useful for many of his various projects. <\/p>\n

He wanted to toss them in a construction dumpster he\u2019s got there temporarily, but the problem is they were too long to fit.<\/p>\n

This was a great chance to put the chainsaw work cutting these suckers in half. The various telephone poles were somewhere between 12 to 14 inches (30-36 cm) in diameter and the chainsaw seemed to cut through them like a hot knife through butter. <\/p>\n

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Cutting piles on the ground is a bit tricky, so after doing a few of them, I used my electric tractor<\/a> to lift them, though that created a new issue when I didn\u2019t leave enough of a relief wedge and the saw kerf would squeeze the blade. <\/p>\n

After wrestling the saw free, re-tensioning the blade took about three seconds. <\/p>\n

The saw has a very simple tool-free chain tensioning system that uses a convenient twist dial, so it\u2019s very easy to use and you don\u2019t have to spend a lot time getting it set up (or resetting it after you fight to free your saw from a big log). <\/p>\n

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Retensioning the blade takes roughly 2-3 seconds and zero tools<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Electric tractor meets electric chainsaw<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As long as I had my angles right so I stopped getting my blade squeezed in the kerf, the saw cut through those telephone poles like they were balsa wood. It was pretty darn impressive.<\/p>\n

Just for fun, I cut out a few thin cross-sections of the telephone poles, and the chainsaw just went right through them without protesting. <\/p>\n

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