Project Farm tests more battery saws
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My biggest take away from that test was to use hearing protection even when using electric saws.
I watched 2/3 of it. Hard to believe the earlier one where the Echo was pretty much the winner was 4 years ago. I have a six tooth spur for 3/8lp and the Stihl 7 tooth rim set up for my ms251 which I believe will fit that ms250. Note he did not at least in what I watched, say if it had comparable chain to the others. The Husky one might have had the mini .325 but is from the reduced profit reduced performance segment of their product line. Likewise for the battery Husky offers.
He tests the saws as they come. That's how 99.9% of buyers will run them, so that's how he tests them.
Ok I just went to the Stihl website, to the MS250 page and i see light 04 on the bar. That tells me it is running the newer narrower kerf .325 chain. Chances are the saw he was tested was running the bar and chain combination from years gone by. The MS251 is really the current model anyway.
https://www.stihlusa.com/products/c.../ms250/?aqid=e050547cf16a08e7b0fd9a481685a28f
https://www.stihlusa.com/products/c.../ms250/?aqid=e050547cf16a08e7b0fd9a481685a28f
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I learned to cut wood from a guy in his 40's who didn't wear ear pro, and half of what he said was "WHAT?" because he was stone deaf. I ain't doing that to myself. I'm 40 now and already have the hearing of a 55 year old man, and would like to keep what I have left.
Maybe I'm misinterpreting your laughing, but you damn betcha I'm wearing ear pro when working with tools that are well over 100db. Y'all can keep laughing.
I learned to cut wood from a guy in his 40's who didn't wear ear pro, and half of what he said was "WHAT?" because he was stone deaf. I ain't doing that to myself. I'm 40 now and already have the hearing of a 55 year old man, and would like to keep what I have left.
Maybe I'm misinterpreting your laughing, but you damn betcha I'm wearing ear pro when working with tools that are well over 100db. Y'all can keep laughing.
Not meant in a negative way but to applaud someone whose beginning to 'hear' the 'light' - - - wait, my hearing aid is beeping, low battery, sigh... Good for you! There's a couple of things you might want to hear about...
So, 40, nice - at 33 yo I was counseled at a physical, for deep water diving - Hyperbaric Physician - that continuing would likely lead to hearing loss as I could not 'hear' his Rolex watch, yeah, the electric ones... His advise was to get a comprehensive audiology exam which I did. The primary reason to get one is to have a base reference to compare as without that one is really only guessing, say, when your 50-55 (when I started with hearing assistance, 25 years ago) to know where your going. From many sources audiology exams, big store chains, even online (but not that good) the tests are free.
Another item is that there are many factors to hearing loss. Sound Force (dB...) (not 'volume' as that cannot be measured) is only one of them. I own & use a Stihl battery electric saw, MSA 220 cb, plus gas saws about 25 hours a week in forestry restoration. (I've used other bat saws too.) I use all the OSHA required PPE including hearing protection. It's the right thing to do. The 220 is rated at by Stihl with a Sound Force of 89 dB - or is it 83 dB which shows up in Stihl.uk...? Which puts them in the range of home vacuums and bigger kitchen mixers... A lot of my early big sounds came from shooting ranges, explosions & rock & roll... 'Saw's sound level can change, btw, on different woods your cutting and the distance your ears to machine - or angle machine's at. And duration of exposure. If your interested check out OSHA, CDC & NIH dot gov.
I'm not a fan of the fast talking comparison video's but have what you will... I do have a Sound Meter app on my mobile and I use that too.
I've used several bat-elec saws which were all 3/8" lo pro. All came with 'safety' linked chains (some say slower cutting) but could be fitted with the LP non-safety linked chain. I have a MS 211- gas - and a MS 220 - batt -which use 55 DL and I interchange them. Useful I think.
some of the 'trimming' hand sized ones us a 1/4"
I watched this the other day. I've never heard of the Husky "Power Axe" which I assume is a homeowner saw. The video's online I'm watching of guys climbing trees speak highly of the 520 I think it is for that application. You still can't get by the fact that battery saws are niche saws and not for hard use in the woods or cutting your winters firewood. Batteries run out but I can just grab the jug of fuel and keep going.
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