Over the past year I have been working with a battery-powered chainsaw and I loved it!
In our work with hiking trails or nature reserve boundaries, we saw a little, go a short distance to saw a little more before we go a little further … and so on. With a petrol-powered chainsaw, you go all day in noise and exhaust. It’s bad for the environment and it’s bad for you!
With a battery-powered electric chainsaw, you are completely free of exhaust and noise comes only when you press the button and saw. Okay, if you like chainsaws as some kind of masculinity symbol, a muscle power – hair on the chest thing … then maybe you have problems with it sounding like a hand mixer 😉
The first battery-powered electric chainsaws which came on the market was not for professional use. They were too weak and felt a bit like a toy. Once you learned the technique, however, they could be used. With the new Husqvarna 540i XP, it’s a whole other thing. It can definitely compete with a traditional chainsaw. Environmentally and in terms of working environment, it is of course completely superior.
With Husqvarna’s new X-cut saw chain, it is a killer. The first tree I felled fell before I had time to release the throttle …
