EGO POWER+ CS1600 16-Inch Cordless Battery Chainsaw - Lightweight Electric Chainsaw for Tree Cutting, Pruning & Yard Work (Battery & Charger Sold Separately) - Perfect for Homeowners, Landscapers & DIY Projects

As the headline says, I did not want to own a chainsaw. I've managed to get by without one for a few decades. But..... I need to rip out a bunch of overgrown evergreens around my pool area including a 30 foot tall blue spruce. And a huge block of mugo pines that have blocked my vision at the end of my driveway. And then there's a decent sized oak on the woodline at the rear of my property. It's rotten and leaning toward my garden shed. Better it comes down in a controlled fashion than a storm.I haven't bothered getting quotes. I know it would be a couple thousand dollars in my area. OK, I give up. I bought this EGO chainsaw. It's a last generation CS1600 and Bomb Brands had a new one in a damaged box for $179. Let's see, $179 vs $2,000. Chainsaw wins.This 1600 has slightly less power than the new CS1610, about 14% less. That's meaningless to me. They've changed the controls around but it's basically the same "no tool" chain and bar adjustment. So once again, I don't care. The CS1610 has a red line added to the kickback blade stop. I did the same thing with some red nail polish borrowed from a female friend. So, don't care again. The only really new feature on the CS1610 is bucking teeth so you can dig into a log for leverage when cutting. But once again, I'll use this thing so seldom that I don't really care. I just need a bare bones tool for occasional use.Other than that, it has automatic chain oiling, it's light, quiet, and it uses the batteries I already own. Replacement bars and chains are readily available and cheap. It is so much easier to use than a gas powered saw. The only consumable is the chain and bar oil.This thing will pay for itself 10 times over with these first few little jobs I have planned for it.Edit one day later: So I dropped the blue spruce (12" trunk) limbed it and cut it up. Removed 2 huge mugho pines at the end of my driveway, and cleaned up a stump from a 30 foot tall arborvitae I cut down a few years ago. The saw worked great. It made the work fast and easy. The spruce pretty much drained a 5 AH battery. The mugho pines and arborvitae stump didn't even put a dent in my 7.5 AH battery. I'm happy with the saw. Much cheaper than the $2,000 a professional would have cost, LOL.EDIT 8/23/24: We got once in 1,000 year rains a week ago. I had one huge oak come down in the woods at the back of my property line. About 50 feet tall and 16" diameter trunk. The woods are pretty dense / packed in there. So when that big oak came down it did a lot of damage to other trees. I ended up taking down 5 trees total because they were either damaged and/or leaning towards my garden shed or out over the yard. The Oak was the largest but they were all 12-16" in diameter. I figured it was better to take them down in a controlled fashion rather than risk injury to people and property if they come down in another random weather event.This chainsaw did a great job of making short work of the trees. But..... the EGO OEM chain sucked. It was basically toast halfway through my initial project with this chainsaw and was burning its way through the wood. After that I ordered a 3 pack of new chains off Amazon from JUMUZHE, $25 for 3 new chains. I had no idea what to expect but the new chain was amazing. Much better than the OEM chain from EGO. It went through 5 good sized hardwood trees like they were butter and is still cutting well at the end of the job.This chainsaw will do everything I'll ever need a chainsaw to do. But do yourself a favor and get a few replacement chains from a decent brand and have them on the shelf ready to go. The chains do take a beating.