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Originally Posted by Diseasel300
My dad is in his mid 70s and is not the type to slow down for anything. The heft and stamina issues were getting to him on the chainsaw front as well. He has an extension style Ryobi battery powered chainsaw that he absolutely swears by. So much so that he's gotten a Ryobi electric weed whacker. And now a drill. All use the same battery pack and there are "extra capacity" sizes available. He's got one of the bigger packs on the saw and it'll last him all afternoon trimming trees, bushes, and under brush.
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I continue to use my Steihl gas powered limb saw because limb cutting doesn’t demand near the strength nor endurance as cutting up 36” oak and hickory. We had a tornado last year and lost dozens of large trees across the farm and in the road and on neighbors’ properties. So we are all accumulating mountains of split hardwood. The winter was so warm I burnt less than 1/4th Wood I split!
One of my daughters drank the battery yard tool Koolaid. She’s got a mower, weedwhacker and pole saw and really likes the battery convience shared among the tools. I don’t recall the name brand. Her husband is a Ryobi shop tool guy. He knows his stuff so I’m sure it’s a good choice.