running electric chainsaw from gennie

I know I am not answering your question here but my thought is it's a fair bit to carry around on your back when looking for a nice night log. How much is it and how does it compare to a good little boss or similar?

Broe

Wow!

You are a brave man Steve to even mention generator in your thread.lol.

Look what happened in an earlier thread where a couple of us were looking for a heater to run of a generator.

Got the good old lecture about National Parks, upsetting other people etc; etc.

Mate I really hope you do get some worthwhile advice, suggestions without being targeted by those who seem to have a "holier than thou" attitude.

Ian.

Steve & Ian,

I can't believe you guys run Generators. You are meant to be out in the bush enjoying the tranquility. You are both noisy disturbances to the peace. How dare you. I mean, the rest of us who have respect for the environment and other people drive really quiet 4x4's that aren't rattly diesels, we don't pull into campsites after 5pm, don't talk around the fire (visual pollution) for fear of making noise, pick up all our rubbish, don't run the truck so we can have hot showers from our under bonnet water heaters or to charge our batteries, play music of any description, fill the air waves with waffle and basically don't do anything to disturb anyone or anything.

There you go Ian, hope you feel better LOL.

Seriously now, I don't run a generator but have no problems with people who do, as I find everyone is normally quiet after about 10pm anyway. Those people who run them throughout the night I tend to find would disturb people in other ways as they tend to be the type of people who are bloody inconsiderate anyway.

Plus you want to run a chainsaw as well........ Bugger me.

That blade would cut through anything, but at 400m long, what roof racks do you use?

I too try not to run my chainsaw after 10.00pm.

Sorry, but it's getting late on Friday arvo, and lunch was good!

No offence, all.
cheers
Gary

The honda will shutdown at 2400w.

You spoke about smelly, what do you fuel the Generator with?

A decent extention lead will take up a bit of room.
A well serviced chainsaw will start every time.

Couple of thoughts..

What to you want the saw for ? If it is for general 4x4ing then you will be using it for track clearing and firewood gathering. Mine gets used mostly for track clearing, especially in the high country.

Will you be able to run the electric one if you come across a tree blocking the track/road ? Will the electric one have the power to get through some of the larger trees you will come across ?

Finally, do you have the skills and PPE to use it safely ?. You may want to consider a chainsaw operators couse (Probably a crosscut course would be fine). Most course operators supply saws, so do the course before you buy the saw, and you will have a much better idea what sort of saw to get.

I reccon it will well and truly overload you gen set.
To have ANY power it will need the full 2.4kW (it is NOT the same as a 1.8kW one, different motor and gearing all together).
In addition it will need more (maybe MUCH more) at start up for a second or so.

Cheers,
Peter
OKA196 Motorhome

well and truly too much for my gennie - it's going back.

I've done Part I of a course. I don't use after beer o'clock, I don't use it at the crack of dawn and if I am camping anywhere near anyone else, it's usually one of the rarre times we go to a caravan park and we don't use it there. Although I didn't ask for that input, thanks anyway. I'll try to behave and use it responsibly. I already own one but would prefer this electric option.

I have a McCulloch petrol jobbie and she starts always on the third pull. Don't muck around with electric it will be a pain if you want to go and get a quick log for the roast that night. Paid around $250 about 3 years ago

I'd have a serious problem with the noise if you run the generator.

S0.... buy a petrol chainsaw and use that so there will be no noise???

Keep everyone happy!

Peter

Hey Steve this would have to go down as the most sidetracked thread of the week :-)
With something like an electric chainsaw which has a very high start & running load, a genny needs a continuous rating about 20% higher than the wattage of the saw. This ensures that it would continue cutting in tough wood or when the bar is gummed up. Even the baby electric saws would struggle to run on a 2 kva restricting the size log it will cut to something a sharp axe would handle anyway.
Cheers Craig..................

All done - gone back to another petrol job. My old one was old when I got it - which is probably why I got it, if you know what I mean. I gave it away for a case of beer to somebody on my last trip vowing to get meself an electric job. Anyway, I'll keep the carby and plug on this nice new job clean and hope I don't have to spend the best part of an hour getting it going. I could've cut the wood with a bow saw/axe in the time it took to start the old one. Nothing really flash but should do the trick.