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Which Battery Powered Chainsaw Brand Wins?
We compared 10 battery powered chainsaw options head to head. DeWalt came out on top. See the measured results, the runner-up, the budget pick, and a link to the full test video.
Winner
DeWalt
Price shown in test: $440 for chainsaw, battery, and charger
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Budget pick
EGO
Price shown in test: $300, chainsaw, battery, and charger
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The measured results
Every number below is read straight from the test. Scroll sideways to see all measurements. Products are listed in the order they finished.
| Product | Weight | Time to peak RPM | No load sprocket speed | Fastest of three cuts through softwood 2x10 stack | Repeat cut with 5 lb weight added to bar | Osage orange hardwood cut | Downward force in lb to stall the chain | Runtime on full charge | Noise level | No load RPM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1DeWalt$440 for chainsaw, battery, and charger | transcript reads 152 lb, almost certainly a mangled decimal for 15.2 lb, the heaviest saw tested, kept verbatim per transcript with ambiguity flagged | 0.7 seconds | around 6,950 RPM | 12.49 seconds, by far the fastest saw in the lineup on this test | 14.34 seconds, the fastest cutting saw on this test | 11.51 seconds, moved into first place ahead of EGO | 66 lb, tied for most with Greenworks | 6 minutes 12 seconds, drained quickly due to the powerful motor | 101.7 dB | not tested |
| 2KTYU$145 | 9.78 lb, the lightest saw tested | 2.2 seconds | not tested | overheated during the first cut and needed roughly an hour to cool down before finishing; recorded times of about 61.5 seconds and 58 seconds, far slower than every other saw | not tested | just over 1 minute 12 seconds, the slowest of all saws tested | 29 lb, gave up earliest of all saws | 8 minutes 41 seconds, completed four and a half passes through the log | 99.8 dB, the quietest saw tested | 6,556 RPM, well short of the marketed 11,000 RPM claim |
| 3Atlas$150, chainsaw only, sold at Harbor Freight | 12.84 lb | 1.1 seconds | not tested | attempts of 20, 22.82, and just over 24.5 seconds; stalled multiple times under heavy downward force | 22.93 seconds, stalled twice during the cut | just under 29 seconds, torque faded after about 10 seconds and the saw stalled three times | 45 lb, good initial torque that faded on an extended run | 5 minutes 30 seconds, completed 9.5 cuts | 110.5 dB, the loudest of the battery saws | very close to 12,000 RPM, about twice the KTYU's chain speed |
| 4Ryobi$179, chainsaw only | 12.565 lb | 1.3 seconds | not tested | attempts of about 23.5, 21.5, and 21.32 seconds, did not stall unlike the Atlas | 24.6 seconds, described as about 1 second slower than the Atlas though the stated numbers do not fully reconcile, kept verbatim | just over 26 seconds, survived without stalling | 43 lb, performed about the same as the Atlas | about 5.5 minutes total, battery overheated around 3 minutes 45 seconds then resumed after cooling | 105.4 dB | 12,353 RPM, higher sprocket speed than most saws tested |
| 5Greenworks$245, chainsaw, battery, and charger | 14.56 lb | very close to 1.3 seconds | not tested | attempts of very close to 23, just over 24, and just over 23.5 seconds; did not stall | 23.6 seconds | 28 seconds | 66 lb, tied for most of any saw with DeWalt | 6 minutes 20 seconds, 144 watt hour battery | 102.3 dB | around 5,500 RPM, the slowest sprocket speed of the saws tested to that point |
| 6Milwaukee | just over 14 lb | 0.2 seconds, the fastest of any saw tested | not tested | attempts of just over 21, 20.5, and just over 20.5 seconds | 24.84 seconds, needed more than 5 lb of downward force to cut most efficiently | 23.3 seconds | 65 lb | around 11.5 minutes at the time it was tested, later confirmed third longest overall behind Husqvarna and Echo; 216 watt hour battery | 100.9 dB | just under 6,200 RPM |
| 7EGO$300, chainsaw, battery, and charger | 13.45 lb | 0.7 seconds | not tested | 14.4 seconds on the fastest attempt, described as over 5 seconds faster than the number two spot at that point in testing; final result after all saws tested placed it third behind DeWalt and the gasoline Stihl | 17.14 seconds, third place | 16 seconds, over 7 seconds faster than Milwaukee at the time, later finished third overall behind DeWalt (11.51 seconds) and the gasoline Stihl (13.77 seconds) | 47 lb | 10 minutes 20 seconds, 224 watt hour battery | 107.4 dB | 10,645 RPM |
| 8Echo$300, same price as the EGO | 14.125 lb | 1.5 seconds | not tested | attempts of 21.58, just over 19, and 19.7 seconds; second place behind EGO at that point in testing | 19.41 seconds, stalled once, about 2 seconds faster than its first test result | 21.6 seconds, moved into second place behind EGO before Husqvarna, DeWalt, and the gasoline Stihl posted faster times | 56 lb | 11 minutes 40 seconds, 252 watt hour battery, finished second overall in runtime at 11.67 minutes | 107.9 dB, louder than the EGO | 10,582 RPM, about as much sprocket speed as the EGO |
| 9Husqvarna$379, chainsaw, battery, and charger | 13.65 lb | 0.5 seconds | not tested | attempts of just over 18, just over 18, and 17.65 seconds; held second place behind EGO | not tested | took second place away from Echo at some point during the test but no exact seconds figure was stated in the transcript; finished outside the final top three of DeWalt, gasoline Stihl, and EGO | 61 lb | just over 15 minutes, the longest of any saw tested, 270 watt hour battery, the largest battery capacity in the lineup | 103.3 dB | around 6,250 RPM |
| 10Stihl MS250 | 13.635 lb | not tested | not tested | 13.93 seconds, second place behind DeWalt | 14.45 seconds, almost as fast as DeWalt | 13.77 seconds, second place behind DeWalt | not tested | not tested | 114.9 dB, the loudest of all saws tested, plus two stroke exhaust smoke | not tested |
How it was tested
- time to reach peak RPM from a stopped start
- no load sprocket / chain speed in RPM
- fastest of three attempts cutting through a stacked 12 board 2x10 softwood log
- repeat cut through softwood with a fixed 5 lb weight placed on the bar for consistent downward force
- cut through an Osage orange hardwood log with a Janka hardness score of about 2,500
- downward force in pounds required to stall the chain with a 10 lb weight on the log
- runtime on a fully charged battery until drained
- noise level in decibels
- weight of the saw
“the dwell ran circles around the competition for cutting speed and had an average finish of 2.2”