yep
You have to think outside of the box...
I agree, different tools for different jobs, that's the point! There's no "one size fits everyone" deal here with tools. I was just commenting on the negative to batteries option, I think that's silly. Especially can't figger out how to recharge something out in the field, that took two nanoseconds to counter. Ya, some guys got to pack it in miles and miles away from even their ride..and that is one one thousandths of chainsaw work, too, some minuscule number. So ya, not practical there, but for everyone else...it's sneaking up.
Sorta akin to some dude all he works on is ship engines, so a 3/8ths drive socket set is useless to him, so he sez something like "why, no one will ever buy them, I can't use them for "my" job, so there's no market for them and they are crapola then, and will never amount to anything"!
Ridiculous strawman arguments.
Anyone who's been around the planet long enough to remember when we only had real wimpy carbon zinc dry cells will know just how freekin much better the lithium batteries are now. Which means younger folks really don't have a frame of reference for comparison. Nor do they remember the opec embargo and how FAST reality can change when it comes to access for fuel at affordable prices and quantities. They weren't around, don't remember, so "it never can happen".....me, I remember it went from normal one day to the next day two gallons max at TEN bucks a gallon, when it was like half a buck normally, all you wanted...that fast...
And I know from reading elsewhere in the more science oriented sites how much work and interest is going into the next generation of batteries. They ain't here yet, but they'll get here. Stuff in that direction is having some amazing advances. And I think all these big corporations that are in the tool business, the ones that offer battery tools, know there's a growing market for them, *else they wouldn't be making the dang things*. But they are, they sell them, they are in every hardware store now, and millions of guys are using them, at home and also on the job to make money, in commercial applications. Why? The tech got "good enough" at some point and is now common. Not that long ago really. Seems like we are just now cracking small chainsaw action there, so good, that means the tech got loads better just recently, so the price drops will be following.
These big tool companies know a lot better than joe random internet skeptic, well, put it this way, I trust them more to know what is what on the global making and selling tools scene.. They are making millions of bucks now on these battery operated things...and they keep coming out with better models, better batts, more powerful motors, lighter weight, etc. I mean, I am getting older and like a lot of older tech..that doesn't make me a luddite though, a lot of new stuff is just loads better than what used to be around.
Battery tech isn't going away just because it isn't suited to 100% of every single possible job out there now. And it's not crap because of that either. Someone's camry isn't crap because it won't tote six tons, and someone's big flatbed isn't crap because it only gets 10 MPG. Different tools for different jobs, it's all good. Better than drudging out to the woods with a sharp rock and totin the wood home on your back.....
. Unless I'm mistaken, most if not all PS chain is 3/8 lowpro so I see no reason you couldn't swap it out.
