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So here at my place we cut a lot of firewood and we use chainsaws a lot
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We've got a bunch of big saws like this and that's what we've been using for
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years but I've noticed that with the improvement in cordless tool batteries
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companies are coming out now with cordless chainsaws and I just want us to
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see how this Milwaukee cordless 18-fold compares with one of my favorite saws
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This big Bruiser right here. Now I know a little saw like this is not going to be able to compete with a saw like this that has a 68cc engine
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But I just want to see how close it comes and what it's like to actually use a saw like this for cutting serious firewood
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This pile of logs behind us is all hard maple. We're working it up for our winter's fuel supply
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And I'm going to cut a bunch of those logs with this saw
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I just want to note how long it takes to run down the battery and just give you a report on what using this kind of technology is all about
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Before I get started cutting I just want to show you a few things here
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What the designers of this Milwaukee have done is to make their chain quite a bit narrower than other chainsaws
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So it's chewing up less wood. If you look here you can see how narrow that is compared with the width of this big saw here
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So this is chewing up more wood but I really don't care about that
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I just care about getting the log cut. So that narrowness is going to be an advantage for this saw and it's not going to be a disadvantage for me
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The battery clips in like this. It's a 12 amp hour battery which that's as big as batteries get pretty well here in the cordless tool world
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So I'm hoping it lasts a long time. Of course it doesn't have a place to put gas which would be kind of around here in a regular saw
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But there is a reservoir for putting chain oil in just like with a regular saw because you have to lubricate the chain
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It's also got a chain break. So if the saw kicks up this break stops that chain from spinning immediately
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So it's just like a regular chainsaw that way. There's a button here
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You have to press and hold it and then... That's how it works
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So let me start by making a couple of cuts with my regular gas saw
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Both of these chains are sharp so it's a fair comparison. And you can just get a sense of how fast the big gas saw works first
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There we go. Well I've done some cutting with the saw and to be honest I'm quite surprised
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I've cut all this wood on one charge with the 12 amp hour battery
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As I said before this is all hard maple and the logs are kind of on the dry side too which makes cutting even more difficult
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Speed wise it was surprisingly close to the big gas powered saw I normally use
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I'm not saying that a cordless saw like this is going to take over from lumberjacks or anything like that
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But for a lot of cutting that most people are going to do this is going to work quite well
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And all in all I'm surprised and impressed
