Like EGO, Greenworks is an organization that has put environmentally pleasant, battery-powered landscaping tools on the forefront of its enterprise. At solely 20 years previous, the Chinese producer already has a popularity for making good, inexpensive out of doors merchandise for each householders and garden care professionals. Greenworks’ broad number of instruments and tools embody its Pro Tool Innovation Award-winning utility automobiles, strain washers, and snowblowers.

Our decide, a steadiness between affordability and outright energy, is the Greenworks Pro 80V chainsaw. It’s below $350 with a battery on Amazon, and is outfitted with metal felling spikes and an 18″ bar. The top-loading battery is a bit more handy than the side-loading energy blocks of most different battery-powered chainsaws, and Greenworks claims the noticed can minimize as much as 110 4x4s earlier than it must recharge. The instrument additionally has various security options, like an anti-kickback bar that prompts a series brake, and a power-down operate that engages when the noticed is left on, however not actively operating, for over a minute. Some contemplate this little operate extra of a bug than a characteristic, however the occasional wandering youngster is at all times able to play with a enjoyable new toy the second’s again is turned.

While this noticed is a little bit heavy at over 15 kilos — that 80V brick of a battery has to go someplace — it cuts rapidly, and one can simply contemplate the brief 30-minute recharge time an opportunity to relaxation these weary arms.