Electric Chainsaw Demo and Review | Kobalt 80 Volt 

Hahaha, I had no idea. Thanks for the help Juan!

Scrench 🤭

Can't believe you didn't split those log sections and use em for fuel or even sell em on to somebody that could use em for fuel ???

Yeah, I had someone snag the bigger logs shortly after they hit the ground. Especially this time of year 👍

Nice, the 5 Ah would be a nice upgrade for this saw. Are you just using these around the house or do you use them for any commercial work?

Mind giving us an update on how the saw works with the 5ah battery ?

@@bigmike4737 I have the 5ah and 6ah batteries. My uncle borrowed my saw for 3 days while his was being repaired, and he didn't have to charge or change the battery. He was limbing and cutting up 2 logs, and cutting up a bunch of limbs from 5-6 large evergreens. I had the Echo 16" 58v saw, and it would overheat and shut down after 2-3 cuts on a 12 inch log (everything Echo that I bought has been replaced except for the 58v blower). This saw has gotten through everything I've cut into, even a 30 inch log full of knots. The only time it has failed me was in 86F heat, it kept shutting down after about 5 minutes of cutting. If they could find a workaround for this issue, this saw would be damn near unstoppable. One other thing, the higher amp hour batteries add some weight, so moving through the woods with this could get tiresome (but not as tiresome and smelly as carrying gas & bar oil).

Hey Eugene, thanks for the tip!

I tried to get the 80V leaf blower to match the other day and they were out. I went with the smaller Makita 18V which is nice but the battery does go a bit fast.

@@EverydayHomeRepairs - I boutht my Kobalt 80v blower on line from Lowes. Its great. I even saw where someone used it to build a battey powered glider.

Nice, I actually might snag a 6 Ah 💥

After I posted the comment, I looked at the aftermarket battery I have and it is a 6 amp hour battery, not 4.

@@rungavagairun Nice 👊

​@@rungavagairun can you provide a link and how are they holding up?

Thanks for the heads up, another person gave me the same tip a couple months back and I was oblivious to that fact at the time 👍

That is a heck of a deal. The battery does well for me outside of needing to cut the big logs like in the video which zaps the battery pretty fast.

100% agree

Hey Jon, this is the second time I am hearing of this 6 A h battery which would be 3X what I have now. 🤔 might be time for an upgrade! Thanks for the feedback 👍

Hey Sal, you are right there is a built in wrench which I didn't find till later, and now I have lost it since ☹️

I've lost 2 of them lol. I use my kobalt to make slabs. It's very rough on the batteries, but I've used the slabs to make 1x8, 2x4, 4x4, 6x6, etc. Its a good little saw. I also have 2 of the weed eaters and gen 1 mower that I use to cut clear some land. I couldn't be happier because all are still going and I have 2 acres worth of lawn. Thank you for the review

​@@Lumbeelegenddo you have a mill system or do you just free hand it?

@@chrisE815 I have a system. I upgraded my saw because I needed a lot of lumber over the summer for furniture that I want to build this winter. I still use the kobalt though when I need to just cut and I use the batteries for my mower and weed eaters all the time.

@@Lumbeelegend What system? I was reading you need a pretty powerful chainsaw to use for a chainsaw mill. Just curious as I might pick up an Alaskan mill if it has a chance of working!

No prob 👍

That 5Ah should make a big difference. best of luck with the project!

The 5Ah battery comes with the saw with the bigger motor, a 2.5 kW versus this model with a 1.6 kW. The standard battery has 20 cells in series and can only produce enough amps to provide 1.6kW of power, the 5Ah battery has two parallel strings of 20 cells for a total of 40 18650 Li-Ion cells and is capable of more or less twice the power and easily powers the 2.5kW motor. The 2.5kW motor on a standard 20-cell pack will cut out under load after exceeding the current limits of the smaller battery pack. Here is some more info, by me on a RU-vid video about the Atlas chainsaw at Harbor Freight. The Atlas is made by Greenworks/Globe Tools and uses their most powerful 2.5 kW motor but Harbor Freight chose to have a unique 80v battery from Globe Tools incompatible with Globe Tool's standard 80/82v battery platform, Harbor Freight also chose to only offer a single string 2.5 Ahr battery. This battery, as an 80v, is a single string battery of 20 cells in series, all the current coming from the battery and feeding the saw's 2.5 kW motor has to pass through those cells, single file, but this current is too much, would overheat the cells from the current draw of 2.5 kW (about 35 amps), and exceeds the current delivery capacity of the 18650 batteries inside the pack. The Atlas battery is likely rated for 1.6 to 2.0 kW of continuous usage, this is why the Atlas cuts out, it is not the saw but the battery telling the saw's electronics to shut down to protect the battery cells. This same motor is available in the Greenworks Commercial GS181 or the Kobalt KCS 4080-06 chainsaws, amongst other Globe Tool brands' top-of-the-line chainsaws, but they are always sold with dual-string batteries (two parallel strings of 20 cells for a total of forty (40) 18650 battery cells), 4, 5, or 6 Ahr batteries. These are very expensive batteries and are heavy, but capable of up to twice the current capacity of a single-string battery. All of the dual string batteries are rated for more than 2.5 kW continuous use and are the only way to get the 50cc equivalent power from the 2.5 kW motor used in them, shame on Harbor Freight for cheating. A couple of other things, since this motor is Globe Tools top of the line motor, Globe Tools includes upgraded features on all their chainsaws using this motor which are missing from the Atlas, like a real mechanical chain brake versus the electronic one which is used in the Atlas for braking the motor electrically. There is also a backpack battery offered from Globe Tools, which I own and use, with five strings of batteries for a total of 100 cells which powers the 2.5 kW chainsaw motor effortlessly for hours. Harbor has finally started offering a 40-cell pack for their saw, so it will work a lot better with the bigger battery.

Yeah, I was hoping the charge would last a bit longer. I do like Stihl products, have you tried their battery powered saws?

Echo battery saws are much better than Stihl battery saws for a much lower price

Yeah, that is where I am at with only a project or 2 each year. When you are shopping around check to see the price on extra batteries. Also check to see if they have large capacity. For instance this Kobalt comes with a 2 Ah as tested but you can get a 6 Ah which would make a BIG difference. 😂

@@EverydayHomeRepairs I have 5ah and 6ah, and side from the extra weight and not being able to cut in 86F temperatures (not safe anyway), it's great. The Echo 58v 16" is trash compared to this saw.

not true with lithum with a good BMS. The BMS protects and balances the battery. Nothing like the lead acid/NiCad etc batteries which fall off on voltage at 50% and start to loose life. The BMS will protect the battery from all of that. The charger will talk to the BMS and let the battery cool and slow charge it back.

Yea that’s absolutely not true

Hey Andrew, the battery for this model is 2.0 Amp Hours.

It appears this saw comes with a 5ah?! If that is the case I’m guessing it will last over twice as long?

That's a steal. Nice find!

Kobalt saws have been recalled for a “laceration hazard,” according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), which is the federal agency tasked with protecting Americans from dangerous products. The agency announced the recalls on September 23, 2020.

Nice thanks for the heads up!

Thanks for the feedback Ron 👍

@@EverydayHomeRepairs no problem, that curve cut will make it harder on the saw and make the cut take longer, i bet it would have done all 4 cuts if both sides of that blade was the equally sharp..kobalt makes good stuff and they are only getting better...

Fair point.