( 78 reviews )
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Posted: Aug 5 2009
We recently purchased this through Amazon. The chain saw leaks oil terribly - it's awful. Plus, it was missing the needed Allen wrench tool that was supposed to come with it. It cuts ok but be prepared to store carefully. I would not put oil in the holder - we'll be doing what another reviewer said - mannually oiling the chain from now on.
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Posted: Aug 2 2009
saw works fine. as advertised, it will leak oil all over the place where ever it's left. after one cycle on the battery - battery is dead and will not take a charge. saw is now worthless.
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( 1 of 1 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jul 5 2009
I bought this for cutting wood while camping. I don't have room to haul much firewood so we normally buy firewood while at a campground or try to find down wood to cut in the surrounding area. Often times, gas powered chainsaws are not allowed within campgrounds so the only options are to use an axe or a handsaw. I've now owned this for 2 months and have used it about 12 times. I've cut up to 7 inch rounds with no problem. Slower than an corded electric chainsaw but quieter too. I bought 2 extra batteries and the 1 hour charger. The included charger with this chainsaw takes too long to charge and does not shut off when the charge is complete thus I highly recommend buying the one hour charger (not included with this chainsaw). BTW, the 1 hour charger doesn't really charge in 1 hour (more like 2 hours) but it will not over charge so is well worth the extra cost. I can easily cut enough firewood to supply a night of campfire with one battery (typically equivalent to about 3 bundles of firewood if I were to buy it). I figure it saves me about 15 dollars a night while camping since I don't have to buy the firewood. We normally drag back long pieces of firewood then cut them at the campsite. The chainsaw is very quiet so won't bother other campers. At one campground that didn't allow chainsaws, the Ranger came over after seeing me cutting wood with it but he didn't have a problem after he realized it was so quiet; that, and the fact that I had a blue tarp down on the ground to catch the saw dust. Yeah, there are many campgrounds that either don't allow wood gathering or have no downed trees to cut on in the surrounding area, but this chainsaw has already saved me quite a bit of money where I have used it. A note about the batteries. They seem to last longer after a few charge cycles. It seemed that after the first charge the battery didn't last very long. After about 10 use then charge cycles, It seems they lasted almost 1/3rd longer than they did after the first charge. Make sure you drain the charge of the batteries before recharging.. That is, don't recharge a half-empty battery as it will degrade the capacity of the battery (since they are NiCad's). Also, as I said earlier, buy the quick charger as it won't over charge the battery. NiCad batteries are more finicky than NiMH or Lithium Ion batteries about charge cycles. BTW, there are after market FireStorm equivalent form-factor batteries for this that are NiMH. I will also mention that I have had no leaking of oil from the oil reservoir. As a matter of fact, when using regular grade chainsaw oil, it does not come out very well even pushing the oil button over and over. I've since changed to a thinner oil (5W 20)and works much better AND still no leaking. Black & Decker must have fixed the original problem I've read about here regarding leaking of the oil reservoir.
