New Stihl battery saws

[DonnyCoffey]

Any more information on these?

MSA 220T
MSA 300

 

[27RMT0N]

I'm certainly curious, but have gone all in with the Husky system.... three saws (one on back order) three batteries and two chargers make switching systems, even if the stihl is somehow way better, too expensive. One of my few gripes with electric tools, you get locked into a single ecosystem.

 

[Mowerr]

I've seen a review on you tube by a female in Europe bc I think they were available there first and I think her tests showed better cut times with the husky and I think she preffered the husky bc of some safety feature the Stihl had that made it a little annoying or hard to get used to cutting with....I could be wrong tho

 

[Vicente]

I have the ts161, we refer to it as baby electric, it's pretty good for the most part weighs about as much as my 193 or 201tc with the midsized battery in it but takes a lot less energy to use when you're making a lot of smaller cuts and speeds up the rate you can easily work at. It's not perfect the safety button is super annoying and can actually start to hurt after a bit (hours) in the tree the balance feels really far back which some people don't like but it doesn't bother me I feel there's very little chance of bad kick back with the tiny chain it runs. The chain is an odd number of links is 65 drive links on a 64dl bar.
You can make a lot of smaller cuts like 4" or so on a charge, I did a fir that broke off about 120 ft up years ago this summer my battery already had a decent number of cuts but was still showing 4 bars when I started I made it all the way to the top on that battery and came up 4 limbs short. For the most part I'm happy with it out won't replace my 201 for everything but it's really nice to have when there's a lot of smaller cuts I don't mind doing 10" or even a little bigger limbs or tops with it depending on the situation, it's great for brush and it's super handy as a chipper saw to cut up those odd limbs that just don't want to go through.

 

[Dan Cobb]

One of my few gripes with electric tools, you get locked into a single ecosystem.

Imagine if manufacturers had followed the lead set by disposable batteries and made rechargeable battery packs in just a handful of standard configurations.

Or worse, imagine if there were as many different types of disposable batteries as there are rechargeable battery packs. "Hey honey, I need batteries for the Samsung TV remote and all I can find are Sony and Vizio batteries. Do we have any Samsung batteries?" (And yes, I'm ignoring the ridiculous variety of little button batteries and focusing on the billions of items that run on D, C, AA or AAA cells.)