T540lixp thoughts.

Have any of you noticed a decrease in battery performance due to cold weather?

Been mild here and my production work load is way down, but I keep getting asked.

Thanks,

Tony
 
ATH said:
Reviews like that don't help me pinch the pennies. I'm trying to pay for a building darn it!

Thanks for sharing!
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I told my wife about the video and she was on board before I even told her the price. She said, “I don’t get sticker shock anymore. If it reduces wear and tear and cuts down on the fumes you breathe, go for it.” Guys, more important than finding the right saw is finding the right wife. I can’t brag, I stumbled into a goldmine of a life partner, but yeah, she’s great!
 
Awesome, this is the kind of video I've been waiting to see, performance in cutting 'bigger' wood. Most of the videos I've seen were too much talking then a few pruning cuts. I'm not sure when I'll be buying another climbing saw as right now I've got a 2511T, 335XPT, 200T and 201T just for myself, but this T540i XP is certainly at the top of the list if I were buying today.

I haven't seen one in person to check it out, but what is the throttle like? Does it have another button you have to be pressing with the other hand to run or can it be easily started and run one-handed? (don't tell the safety police).
 
27RMT0N said:
Awesome, this is the kind of video I've been waiting to see, performance in cutting 'bigger' wood. Most of the videos I've seen were too much talking then a few pruning cuts. I'm not sure when I'll be buying another climbing saw as right now I've got a 2511T, 335XPT, 200T and 201T just for myself, but this T540i XP is certainly at the top of the list if I were buying today.

I haven't seen one in person to check it out, but what is the throttle like? Does it have another button you have to be pressing with the other hand to run or can it be easily started and run one-handed? (don't tell the safety police).
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27RMTON. I won’t tell the safety police since they don‘t exist. I will question your judgement and call your actions “ dumb“ though. If you one hand, Improve your skills and stop cutting corners.

Tony
 
27RMT0N said:
Awesome, this is the kind of video I've been waiting to see, performance in cutting 'bigger' wood. Most of the videos I've seen were too much talking then a few pruning cuts. I'm not sure when I'll be buying another climbing saw as right now I've got a 2511T, 335XPT, 200T and 201T just for myself, but this T540i XP is certainly at the top of the list if I were buying today.

I haven't seen one in person to check it out, but what is the throttle like? Does it have another button you have to be pressing with the other hand to run or can it be easily started and run one-handed? (don't tell the safety police).
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it's operation is identical to a gas saw. nothing to stop you from running it one handed.
 
Tony said:
Have any of you noticed a decrease in battery performance due to cold weather?

Been mild here and my production work load is way down, but I keep getting asked.

Thanks,

Tony
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I bring batteries and charger in at night and charge/keep them out of the cold. If you leave them in the truck overnight and they were fully charged, the charge will only be 3/4 or half and seems to die quickly. Then when you try to plug the charger/battery in, it won't charge because it is too cold.

If they are warm in the morning, you won't have any problems. Getting cold as the day goes on hasn't been a problem at all, if what you are asking is, if using it on a cold day will the batteries not last as long? I haven't noticed that at all. If you leave the batteries and charger in the truck overnight you'll have trouble charging them in the morning.
 
Sfoppema said:
it's operation is identical to a gas saw. nothing to stop you from running it one handed.
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Thank you for answering my question. I'm all for safe work practices, in some situations I just like to know I have options.
 
Sfoppema said:
it's operation is identical to a gas saw. nothing to stop you from running it one handed.
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Not even your left hand will stop it when it comes back at you LOL

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Thanks Tony - super video - it echoes my impressions of my new favourite the 540lixp (rear handle). As I understand it the 540lixp and T540lixp share the same motor, electronics, and most everything except configuration.

Sfoppema nailed it on cold weather and batteries. Up here in the great white north you’ve got to bring your chainsaw batteries in to the house for charging and storage in November and not put them out again until late April. But as long as they’re warm enough to run at all, they work fine. I keep mine in an insulated soft “cooler” to keep them warmish until I need them.

I’ve been using the T536iXP for about two and a half years and liked it so much I was using it for lots of things I probably shouldn’t have, like felling smaller trees, limbing them and bucking them. I just liked the effective electric saw sensation so much I was overlooking the fact that a top handled saw is really not an ergonomic tool for much but in tree work.
Fool that I was, when I saw that the T540lixp was coming to Canada I called up my dealer thinking I’d order one but luckily he said he was not taking electric saw trade ins.
Not needing 2 top handled saws, but lusting after more of that electric chainsaw sensation, I ordered the 540lixp instead.
Currently I’m doing a “commercial thinning” (as the forestry engineer calls it) of a long untended Red Pine plantation. The trees I’m removing are 10”-14” at the butt, and the 540lixp with a 14” stock bar and chain is the only saw I need. Felling, limbing, bucking this saw performs flawlessly and leaves me as fresh as a young fella at the end of the day.
Although the recommended battery for this saw is the 300, I babied myself and got a couple of 200x instead - they’re just that much lighter. The 200x battery will definitely sustain heavier (bigger, faster) cutting than the 200 but for light work like limbing Red Pine the two batteries have equal cutting capacity, that’s to say one lasts as long as the other.
I get the impression that a lot of the efficacy of this saw is from the new chain. It chews up wood like a little barracuda but don’t push it.
If you don’t need to cut bigger stuff I highly recommend this saw - in fact my 550xp is thinking of going to Florida for the winter (but not to work hey - just to rest in the shade).
 
27RMT0N said:
I haven't seen one in person to check it out, but what is the throttle like? Does it have another button you have to be pressing with the other hand to run or can it be easily started and run one-handed? (don't tell the safety police).
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One handed or two, there is an 'operator presence palm button' that is different in actuation than the 536. You have to put pressure on it with your palm as you are pushing it forward. THEN you can pull the trigger.

It feels much different, but you get used to it quickly.
 
Tony said:
27RMTON. I won’t tell the safety police since they don‘t exist. I will question your judgement and call your actions “ dumb“ though. If you one hand, Improve your skills and stop cutting corners.

Tony
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Manufacturers spend millions of dollars researching the best ways to make saws. Every year people like yourself complain that top handle saws should only be run with two hands. Every new model that comes out can be easily used with one hand. Unlike any ground saw. Perhaps your efforts would be best aimed at the manufacturers. Hacking at the roots instead of the leaves.
 
I have also been finding the 200 battery pretty much same operationally as 200x until you’re making notch cuts on 10 inch plus diameter. I have 1 200x and 3 200 batteries and rarely know which one I have in the saw. Always take two batteries with me to a day of contracting... and 4 if I am running a job, with a new and old electric saw and electric blower for the end of the day.

What file are folks using on the stock husq chain? Been using 4.0m, but it seems like it might be the wrong size. Halfway through the life of a chain it is just not performing. Obviously I’m hitting the rakers. This is kind of a new kind of chain so wondering if there’s another memo I am missing.
 
Sfoppema said:
Manufacturers spend millions of dollars researching the best ways to make saws. Every year people like yourself complain that top handle saws should only be run with two hands. Every new model that comes out can be easily used with one hand. Unlike any ground saw. Perhaps your efforts would be best aimed at the manufacturers. Hacking at the roots instead of the leaves.
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My objection to one handed chainsaw use is not a complaint. It is a professional judgement based on statistics, experience, and training. I have no intention of going on a rant. If anyone reading this is looking for that it has been done before on this forum.

I will reemphasize that as pointed out above one handed chainsaw use is a quantifiable high risk behavior. While clever arguments could be made for some very specific case use scenarios, 99.99% of the time the action remains high risk, low return.

To rationalize any known unsafe act as an option and to take that action is a selfish act. How you take my last statement is up to you, but life shows me that incidents effect way more than just an individual. Also how we do anything is how we do everything.

As for your suggestion that the manufactures should be addressed, I will tell you that is one of the many things I am involved in on regular basis with a number of manufacturers. The wheels of the organizations are often square and as such difficult to turn quickly. Probably because of not wanting to thwart the end user. A cycle that often takes regulation to interrupt for good or bad.

Respectfully my .02,

Tony
 
Tony said:
My objection to one handed chainsaw use is not a complaint. It is a professional judgement based on statistics, experience, and training. I have no intention of going on a rant. If anyone reading this is looking for that it has been done before on this forum.

I will reemphasize that as pointed out above one handed chainsaw use is a quantifiable high risk behavior. While clever arguments could be made for some very specific case use scenarios, 99.99% of the time the action remains high risk, low return.

To rationalize any known unsafe act as an option and to take that action is a selfish act. How you take my last statement is up to you, but life shows me that incidents effect way more than just an individual. Also how we do anything is how we do everything.

As for your suggestion that the manufactures should be addressed, I will tell you that is one of the many things I am involved in on regular basis with a number of manufacturers. The wheels of the organizations are often square and as such difficult to turn quickly. Probably because of not wanting to thwart the end user. A cycle that often takes regulation to interrupt for good or bad.

Respectfully my .02,

Tony
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Nothing against you sir, just curious why, in general, the argument never points back to the source. A third party who knew nothing about chainsaws, tree climbing, felling etc would probably draw the conclusion that the saw was designed to be used with one hand. Because it most certainly is. A ground saw is designed to be used with two hands. It's intuitive. By design.

The argument continues, and the saws continue to be designed to be used with one hand. If I buy a wrench or tool of any kind that is designed to be used a certain way, I'm probably going to use it that way.

If a saw is designed to be used with one hand, I'm probably going to use it with one hand.

I'm not going to call someone "dumb" for using a tool the way that it was designed and intended to be used.

A chainsaw can be a dangerous tool. A "dumb" person is likely to be injured using one whether they have two hands on it or one.

I agree that this argument is redundant. I just don't understand the judgement on one of the many thousands of users, when the judgement should be on one of the few designers.

The t540ixp is a mint saw. Recommend it highly.
 
Has anybody felt a difference using the new 200x battery with the old 536?
Did it help the 536 at all compared to the batteries that came with that before the 200x battery?
I can't wait to try out the 540
 
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