Gas Chainsaw V.S. Electric Chainsaw...Worth the extra Money? You decide!!

she's a main one hey there folks this is Josh Stoney Ridge farmer welcome back to the farm today we're gonna have some more fun with the chainsaw so we're gonna break out the steel ms1 70 and we're gonna compare it to the steel ms a 140 see we're gonna see how these two consumer grade homeowner grade type chainsaws stack up against each other so come along today as we try out the MSA 140 see for the first time the battery powered chainsaw and we put it up against a steel M s 170 alright [Music] [Applause] alright folks welcome to the channel if this is your first time the dystonia Ridge farm welcome this is a 200-acre farm we've been doing YouTube videos for about three years now we are starting a first generation cattle operation we do a lot of tool reviews and a lot of fun stuff here on the Stoney Ridge farm this is our pond that we built on camera last year and I think I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 2,500 bucks in this pond awesome it looks beautiful the grass came in nicely so what we have here again is a steel ms1 70 and this is the least expensive consumer-grade chainsaw that I think steel has to offer this is a great little saw it's a good what I call it running and gun and saw in other words I can toss it in the back of the Kubota here run around on the trails cut out all the brush it's laying around the trails but it's not really made for cutting great old big stuff you can cut a load of firewood with this however you may want to step up to a larger like an MS 311 I think is what it is or something even larger in the two series of Steel now this is a totally different bird the other chainsaw the MS 170 has a 16 inch bar this one has a 12 inch bar it has a little bit less aggressive chain in other words the teeth are a little bit smaller on this I think these are a quarter inch where this one I believe are I've got my specs right here my puckett yeah this is a 3/8 chain in the 170 this is a 1/4 inch chain so this is more of the chain that is associated with like the pole saw for steel and I think they offer a battery-powered pull saw now the weights of these things this one weighs about ten point six pounds and this one weighs about eight point six pounds so you've got two pounds difference if that really matters or as long as you're going to be using this battery-powered saw now steel had a special where you can get two batteries you get the second battery half-price you just got one battery I think that'll be just fine this will be the saw that we keep on the Kubota wherever we go so we can get limbs and stuff out of the way whenever something's on the fence line or anything like that because typically the tree that's gonna fall on the fence line isn't going to be this big it's gonna be something small so this is going to be our new go-to chainsaw for maintaining our fence our fence lines so without further ado let's talk a little bit about the features of this saw so you have a chain break right here and I'll show you how that works in other words if it kicks back you engage the chain break this chain break also disengages the electric power so you can't pull the trigger when you get ready to pull the trigger you have to push the safety button right here and pull the trigger it won't do it with the chain break engage disengage it and it does it just fine it has a little bit of a strange sound to it listen so we're gonna put it to work we're gonna cut a limb off of a big ol poplar tree right here and this limb is probably about this big around we're gonna drop it with the battery-powered one then we're gonna lay the log up here and we're gonna do a side-by-side comparison of the MS 170 versus the battery-powered MSA 140 see let's get busy let's cut some stuff now you might think I'm crazy because I have all the safety gear on but I believe in safety first for sure and I also work in a hospital and I know what it looks like when someone gets injured by a chainsaw we don't need earmuffs with this it's gonna be so weird to run a chainsaw that's just basically almost silent so we could cover our ears if we wanted to to help hold the helmet in place but we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna drop see this limb coming off the side right here it's just kind of an ugly eyesore on this tree we're going to go ahead and lop it off real quick this again is a 12 inch bar it's almost the size of that limb right there and I want to compare these two saws to each other on equal ground on even ground the real selling point on this saw is that when you get done you don't have to winterize it you don't have to do a whole lot of maintenance you just sit it on the shelf you never have to buy fuel for it so will it make up the difference in price it's kind of up to you to decide so let's fire this thing up I guess it's a limb it's almost a tree all right so I laid into that tree right there and I have full battery full totally full battery and has an indicator light right here that tells you your battery is full let me get you guys a little closer so you can see what's going on here while I'm totally sure that this chainsaw is capable of cutting this limb I want you to see this really quickly that's it it's bogging down I didn't expect that I expected a little bit more power out of this name Wow gosh I'm gonna get the 170 I'm gonna cut this and then we're gonna take this and just go verses with a limb it's gonna be the first time I've started the MS 170 today we got it on full choke our chain break is locked we're gonna get down here and start it up well come on baby well there's something you don't have to deal with with the battery powered inside of gas [Music] good splash didn't it I'm going to cut off a big piece of log right here we'll take it up on the back of the Kubota and we'll get busy cutting on it with both saws [Music] [Applause] [Music] this thing kicks butt man okay in order to be fair we got a smaller log and we had a bigger log so this log here is about four inches through and this one here is about eight and a quarter inches we'll get to cutting now this is poplar this is a pretty soft wood typically these chainsaws just zip right through it so I'm very curious about the performance of that battery-powered saw I might have to upgrade to the 200 I don't know if they'll give me a train in or not again we'll see so let's see how they work okay boys and girls set your timer here we go this is we're going to start with the MS 170 and we're just going to lop off two blocks of this and we'll lop off two blocks of that and then we'll do it with the battery-powered 140 [Music] [Applause] again this is the MSA 140 see let's go with the little log first this is so weird so weird having a chainsaw that doesn't make any noise not running it's constantly dangerous so here we go little log first man that's pretty good I'm pretty excited about that let's see it again here let's just do three yeah that did a great job on that little guy for sure I got some coasters now for the for the house so now let's go big see how she does I did great let's do one more just for fun I totally stand corrected about this totally corrected safety gear off hat back on I got a free hat with the song man you can't beat a free hat so I totally stand corrected on this little m/s 140 when I was working on the tree over there I guess I'm so used to using a chainsaw that uses gas that I didn't even think about how hard I was pressing up against it in order to cut it so if you just let the saw do the work it's supposed to just kick butt and it does kick butt the chain on the MS 170 was a little bit duller in other words it wasn't a brand-spanking-new chain like what's on this but I'm gonna say it did a great job and I'm pretty impressed at first there I was thinking I was gonna have to take this thing back because it was being a dog but the only reason it was being a dog is because I was dogging on it so you can't really dog on this saw like you can a gas-powered saw so I guess that's a point to consider at some point here on the channel we're gonna go ahead and get a Milwaukee or Makita Makita brand Milwaukee I think it's in Milwaukee you guys let me know in the comments and it Dewalt and we're gonna pin these things up against each other I think we'll have four electric saws and we'll put four electric saws against each other and see which one is the best performer for the dollars now here's a big question about the gas-powered solve versus the electric saw is it worth the extra money the MS 170 and 171 are somewhere around one hundred and seventy nine dollar price range when I walked out the door with this with battery and charger and an extra chain I ended up spending somewhere close to 400 bucks no gas required at all for the battery-powered saw but you do have to put Barre oil in it if you fill this thing up with borrow oil and you go camping have a nice fully charged battery maybe two fully charged batteries you'll have enough to cut all your firewood for the night of camping or a week of camping probably it's supposed to run somewhere between 35 and 45 minutes on a full charge with the good battery that I have the 30 amp battery now conversely you could also fill this guy up with gas and the oil and run it for 45 minutes also the price point again is a little bit cheaper with the MS 170 but you don't have the maintenance the upkeep the headaches the hassle of having to take your saw back in because something's wrong with the carburetor because this gas that we buy at the gas stations nowadays has all that ethanol in it and it breaks down carburetors it breaks down power equipment if you're driving through your local town in the spring time you'll see lawn mowers littering the curbs because people didn't drain the gas out of them and they're ruined their carburetors are absolutely ruined 15 minutes of carburetor clean and would fix that problem but most people aren't going to do that so for the average homeowner living in a neighborhood or a guy riding around on his sport utility or utility vehicle then I think the battery powered saw is the option for a young lady who has a house and might want to clear limb off or something falls down in our backyard instead of calling your neighbor you can grab this guy and go to work your neighbors would be impressed that's for sure so I give it my seal of approval the MSA 140 C is a good saw it's a great homeowner saw I am not sure about the 200 hopefully we can get a 200 here on the farm pretty soon we can try it out and I'm not too sure how it compares with other battery powered chainsaw so we're going to load up on battery powered chainsaws and we're going to come back to you and tell you about how they perform so if you have any suggestions or any questions guys post them down there in the comment section I appreciate you hope you enjoyed this little video comparison and if there's something else you'd like to see let me know thanks a lot please pound that 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