Worx WG304.2 Saw 18-Inch 15.0 Amp Electric Chainsaw with Auto-Tension, Chain Brake

Just felled and cut up a 34" diameter maple with this truly awesome chainsaw.This is new, out of the box, and I only used the saw chain provided.This is my third WORX saw. The price of the saw is less than a regular service on my old Husqvarna saw. Do the math!!

This saw is great I have had 3 gas powered saws over the years and all 2 have had failures due to pore care and leaving the gas in. So I moved to this 18” 15amp Electric model I love it. It’s got plenty of power and cuts nice I filled a few pick up trucks of wood in no time. Every cut went well and never had an issue. The priced seemed good and I was thinking of getting another to keep around. On another note I was cutting a hard wood and 10-14” logs.

I had the smaller version and really liked ease of use and found it fun to saw branches to clean up the yard. I had a much larger branch fall so I bought this one. I'm 64 years old. 5'5 and 135 lbs. It does a great job! User Manual is not great but there are good YouTube videos. Very big oak branch about 10-13 ". No problem.Turn the knob to open the cover - line up the chain- put the cover back on and tighten with the knob. Buy chainsaw oil. Get at least 100 foot extension cord. Its not included. You just add it to an easy access reservoir . Pull back the black panel thing toward you or it won't start. Plug in . Push button and pull trigger at the same time. Wear safety glasses! Tie back hair. Keep extension cord away from saw.

I am pretty happy with this saw. I did run into the chain jumping problems that others had, but I think I have mastered it and figured it out. Hear me out.1. I am a 40 year man with at least two partial rotator cuff tears in my shoulders. My days of pulling my guts out trying to start a gas chainsaw are behind me. I am replacing my two Remington 20 inch 52 cc chainsaws, and no regrets and wished I did it sooner. My primary need of a chainsaw is in service of making bowl blanks for wood turning. That task abuses saws with the shear amount of rip cuts that you need to make instead of the crosscutting. For every crosscut I make, I will do 5 to 10 rip cuts on a log. I had no unknown issues with this saw.2 If you are rip cutting, bar oil consumption is not quite high enough, but stop frequently and clear the large shavings out of the sprocket compartment and I had no trouble. If you are cross cutting, then oil consumption is on par to what I would expect on a gas saw.3. I ordered this about 11 pm Sunday night, and got it 930 am Tuesday morning!4. I ran my saw on a 20 amp breaker and 10 gauge 30 foot extension cord. I had no electrical heat build up anywhere in the systems.5. For the folks coming off of gas saws. This saw will take all the pressure and aggression you can throw at the chain with stalling it. This is a slow cut, but with the added torque, you get through the cut faster than you do with the gas saws that I have ran. Not much of backing out of the cut to ramp the RPM and dig in again. I think this feature is part of other complaining of the chain jumping off the bar all the time.6. Chain Jumping off the bar. Yep it will do that. It did it a lot when I first started with this saw. However, I think I figured it out. It appears that this bar to body interface cannot take any side loading or twisting at all. Take the extra spit second to think about what you are doing when you are trying to take the bar out of the cut or finishing a cut. The last hour an half that I used the saw today, if I paid attention to how I had the bar in the wood, then chain never came off once. I came from a long line of gas saws. The RPM they operate at required different and more robust mounting systems, that made them pretty forgiving on twisting and pinching and keeping your chain on. This saw is built different, but once you fine tune your cutting technique, the chain will stay on just fine. Take the time to learn that new skill and your frustration will fade away. For me, it had the added benefit of straighter and more square cuts. That helped me yield a bit higher on the amount of bowl blanks I can get out of a log.7. The chain that came with the saw was one of best ones I have used to rip cut out of the package without having to touch up the teeth. I cannot speak to how long it will last, but I did about 3 hours of rip cutting 30 inch long by 32 inch diameter maple logs at 35% moisture. I got tired and quit before the chain was still sharp enough.8. The tool-less chain tensionor is a novel idea for me, but it works and I am happy with it so far. While there is only on stud that comes out of the saw, all the interfacing parts with chain, bar, and sprocket are metal. There is a bit of an art to get the cover to thread on that single stud, I cannot explain it well, but you will get the hang of while you are learning how to keep the chain on the bar all the time. That frustration passes pretty quick too.9. More on chain jumping. Think about the in-log forces that at play when you have a chainsaw going through there. When you are getting to an end of a cut, slow your feed pressure down to the chips coming out as a fine dust. Keep the saw running and use your arms to support all the weight of the saw. As the cut finishes, the in log forces are starting to get wild. You want to set the saw up so the cut piece of wood cannot use any part of the bar as a fulcrum as it falls it away. That will stop the twisting and torquing on the bar that kicks the chain off. I had the best luck with leaving about inch left to the cut and turning the piece over and do an up or pull cut to finish. If you take it easy as the bar begins to exit the wood, it is just as safe as any other cut that I do.10. The noise level of the saw outside is pretty decent. The sound reminds of cordless pruning shears, just a bit louder. If I was using the saw inside the shop and not in the wide open, I would wear earplugs.11. I was not expecting the saw to cut straight and not wonder off, but it is the easiest saw to make a straight that I have used thus far.That is about it for now, I will update if I have something significant change. This saw is plenty good for the semi-pro home gamer. Give it a shot. I am done slinging gas saws while I am at my home shop. This saw is just the right weight to add to good control and balance and remain a stable cutting platform. In the end, I think I will become a bit more precise in my cuts.

I am really impressed with this saw. Not that long ago I got rid of almost all my small engine tools. The last thing I wanted was another engine to maintain and the cordless chainsaws that matched this saw's specs are pretty pricey. I have a lot of trees on my land, but most of the time I can just let them lay were they fall. For the money, this fit my needs perfectly. It made short work of a pretty big tree. I broke up the cutting into two days (because of me, not the saw). The picture is from day 2 with the big end of the tree. All told, it was probably 70' tall. It is really lightweight, has plenty of power and virtually zero maintenance. Each day I pulled the wand off to clean out the oiled sawdust, but that was it. I did knock the chain off the wand twice, but that was because I got it pinched in a cut. Not the saw's fault. If there is leftover oil in the reservoir, which there should be, it's going to leak so store it accordingly. I used some cardboard from a box to catch it. The self-tentioning worked flawlessly. Is this the right tool for every job? Of course not. But for the occasional tree, close to a power source, and taking the price into consideration...I think you'd have a hard time beating it. If I ever feel the need to cut one up further from the house, well I can always pull out the generator and plug in to that. Oh yeah, it's quiet too. Not silent, but not as loud as an electric leaf blower. The whine was a high enough frequency that I used earplugs, but I doubt anyone other than my direct neighbors, hanging out at their pool, could hear it. My wife was in the house and couldn't. Pretty quiet. I'm definitely happy with the purchase.