Greenworks 60V saw stops in the cut

[Brushpile]

Glad to find this thread. Not surprised as this is exactly what happened today with the 60v 16" 2.5a $200 Walmart special with free delivery .


I had been curious about the new battery saws. Surprised by how fast it is. And quiet
Made short work of a new fallen dead ? from the storm.


Limbs and anything 8" or under, it just fly through. Got 2/3's into that 14" trunk and as said above as soon as it was about to hit a lick it would die. Have to raise it up, pull the trigger and go again. This was maybe 15-20 minutes into cutting and I may possibly are not charged the battery til it quit blinking, like I did this evening. So I could cut for 20 minutes and then have to charge it for 50. Another battery is the price of a small boat but if you own other 60v GW tools it would be worthwhile., It is what it is though. A great tool for quiet, clean worry free ,other than battery life light use.
Not sure the oiler was working 100% and the biodegradable bar and chain lube is thick as snot


The lady took a liking to it immediately and never got it in the dirt once. Took to running it like it owed her money. I was grinning like a possum eating briars watching her. I just hauled the brush.

 

[OM617YOTA]

20 minutes of solid cutting on a battery is about right. A limb here and there, walk a bit, cut a limb, a battery will go all day.

They oil very minimally. I'd rather they oil a lot more, but haven't burned up a bar or chain due to the lack. The usage cycle of a battery saw with the current state of tech just isn't super demanding of bar lube.

Get your lady some proper PPE. Tell her she looks cute with a saw in her hands while wearing solid shoes, proper jeans, and with her hair tied back. This will get snickered at here, but I wear hearing protection even using my battery saw for any length of time, even if it's just ear buds. Even these electric saws are well into the "gradual hearing loss over time" loudness range, and if I'm going to have gradual hearing loss, I'd rather it be from listening to good music or the big block in my pickup truck, not an electric saw.

 

[Brushpile]

Get your lady some proper PPE. Tell her she looks cute with a saw in her hands while wearing solid shoes, proper jeans, and with her hair tied back.

You can't imagine how tough this woman is or what she's been doing for the last 72 hours before she picked this chainsaw up and went to tearing that tree up with it like it was nothing. She cares for a 400 lb nearly invalid dementia patient and as the storm came through she took him got him out of the house into a hotel room stayed up with him for 48 hours make sure he didn't leave the room or try to hurt himself, had gotten back to the house called me to come over cuz the tree was down. I brought her safety glasses she has them on, cut that tree up in her cute little shoes and pants, sent me on My Way went back in and continued her job for another 17 hours until she finally got to come home for a few minutes and left back out again. So if you want to make fun of her and tell her what she needs to do you go right ahead pal I'm not getting in the middle of that dog fight. Oh, and her best friend died a week ago.

Went back this morning with a full battery and had no problems cutting that trunk as long as I didn't try to push it into the wood it never hesitated you can see in the video. Not a bad saw for what it is it was quite didn't even wake the neighbors up when I was out there early went right back in the truck with a half a battery left to go after 10 more minutes of cutting.

 

[OM617YOTA]

You can't imagine how tough this woman is or what she's been doing for the last 72 hours before she picked this chainsaw up and went to tearing that tree up with it like it was nothing. She cares for a 400 lb nearly invalid dementia patient and as the storm came through she took him got him out of the house into a hotel room stayed up with him for 48 hours make sure he didn't leave the room or try to hurt himself, had gotten back to the house called me to come over cuz the tree was down. I brought her safety glasses she has them on, cut that tree up in her cute little shoes and pants, sent me on My Way went back in and continued her job for another 17 hours until she finally got to come home for a few minutes and left back out again. So if you want to make fun of her and tell her what she needs to do you go right ahead pal I'm not getting in the middle of that dog fight. Oh, and her best friend died a week ago.

Good lord advising to wear PPE isn't making fun of someone.

No doubt she's tough as nails and could kick my ass, not that I'd ever pick a fight with another man's wife, especially a redhead.

That spinning chain doesn't give a crap about any of that.

 

[Brushpile]

Good lord advising to wear PPE isn't making fun of someone.

No doubt she's tough as nails and could kick my ass, not that I'd ever pick a fight with another man's wife, especially a redhead.

That spinning chain doesn't give a crap about any of that.

I hear ya brother, me neither! I was out in heavy boots and denim and offered to do it. It kicked back and scraped her shin, she never stopped, didn't even tell me about it til way later. Lol. I'm just saying I've been with this woman for nearly 15 years and she's just a stubborn today as she was the day I met her about doing things her own way. She does so much with what she has to work with, and putting up with me. Yeah of course PPE I've worn it for 25 years every day of my life I know all about it, she does too she's just the way she is. She's been the property maintenance supervisor over this estate for a dozen years takes care of four yards all the fallen trees, etc. now she's moving into a more executive roll and still out here like a boss. I'm just the mechanic I keep s*** running.

Trying to upload a video I made this morning of the saw with a fresh battery. To hear and see how it did. Wouldn't stop buffering? File too big. Uploaded to YouTube
Steel toes but no gloves, eye or ear wear, or even a head covering myself, and I do know better!
One thing about it the saw was really quiet and I didn't wake anybody up using it

 

[Brushpile]

So if you want to make fun of her and tell her what she needs to do you go right ahead pal I'm not getting in the middle of that dog fight

Sorry, I had to look back at what I wrote. I can see where I might have came across as a taking offense but no I was grinning the whole time I was typing it in a friendly nudging kind of way. like "yeah, go ahead, I'd like to see that"

 

[OM617YOTA]

Sorry, I had to look back at what I wrote. I can see where I might have came across as a taking offense but no I was grinning the whole time I was typing it in a friendly nudging kind of way. like "yeah, go ahead, I'd like to see that"

Great, glad to hear it. Definitely no ill intent on my side either. I was thinking man I'm not bossing around someone else's wife, and a redhead to boot. There are easier ways to commit suicide!

Sounds good, sounds like my 80v Kobalt. Definitely let the saw do the work and eat at it's own pace. Seems to make the battery last the longest too, vs dogging in.

 

[peterbro]

My experience with Ryobi and Milwaukie battery packs when they become weak or fail is that the original batteries were only 1200-1300 mAh capacity.I
By replacing those batteries with 2600 mAh capacity batteries the run time of the pack is doubled.