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I have a customer that picked up a little Stihl cordless for trimming at the local JD dealer. I forget the price, I think it was around $350-400. He wrote his check and was getting ready to leave "do you need a battery and charger too?" "oh, yeah" so he gets that too and goes home. A month later he gets a bill for the battery and charger, brings the total up to $650. For a little 12" saw.The Milwaukee saw is pretty cool and people seem to like it. I would buy one if it wasn't so big - why they did not start with a top handle model is beyond me... DeWalt and Makita both have top handle saws that are very compact. The ideal battery powered saw for me would be a top handle Milwaukee with about a 12" bar. Perfect to throw in the tool box, cut up campfire wood, limbing or clearing fallen trees from the trail. The current Milwaukee saw is just too big for that purpose.
I think they're potentially a good deal if you have other cordless tools of that same brand AND several large batteries... they will burn through batteries. If you're going to cut a lot, you probably need a couple 12ah batteries, plus the saw and a charger... that's easily $600+. The difference between that and a $200 gas saw will buy a LOT of gas...
He wasn't a very happy camper. And to add to his dismay it is a special chain so he is stuck going back there for bars and chains. I am an Oregon dealer and they offer NOTHING for it.