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about tools and machinery and today we are going to look at the new still MSA 220 yes
they have upgraded it we are also going to compare it against the MSA 300 yes the
biggest battery chainsaw on the market as well as their smallest one the MSA 120 so please a
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let's crack on tested by Machinery Nation right so what is different about this saw compared to
the previous version well let's start at the bar and chain because it's got a completely
new bar and chain firstly it's running the light 04 bar yet which is very common now I'm all still
professional products it's been a very popular piece of equipment and or accessory to a lot of
chainsaws and so many people are now asking for this bar so there's a great Improvement it's also
got an uprated chain so it's now got a pro chain on it why have they done this because it's given
the saw 20 better cutting performance which for one that means it cuts better great news but also
you can get more cuts out of a battery charge so they recommend that AP 300s battery for this saw
which is a lumpy battery is quite weighty but it gives you the power you need to be able to
do the jobs you require and now with that bar and chain on it I think that is a great added
feature I think the most important new part for me is that they've actually got a proper trigger
and throttle on here now so take the battery out just in case it's not clipped in so before
you have the trigger underneath like other saws like petrol saws but you have the button on the
side you have to press the button and then pull the trigger in whereas now this is like a petrol
source so you hold down the top Dead Man's trigger dead man's hand or whatever you want to call it
down there and then you can pull in the trigger definitely big big Improvement love it because
it feels more like a petrol saw or a a chainsaw should do also the design they have bought the
design in line with the MSA 300 definitely when they bought the MSA 300 out you could definitely
see things were changing because not only are they are they updated the MSA 220 they've also updated
the MSA 160 and the MSA 200 to the same design and specifications as this so you'll see a completely
new range of souls from still I believe they're going to be available from February ish that's
in the UK the rest of the world I have no idea so just have to contact your local still dealer
to find that out as you can see from the saw it is beautiful they've definitely definitely made
some really big improvements and that's what you can see from the outside on the inside
side they have updated the electronics but not necessarily to be able to make the saw better for
the user but to comply with a lot of different standards and things so it is different on the
inside as well as it is the outside right let's see what the difference is between this and the
MSA 300 so what's different between these two well it's the size yes it is the MSA 300 is definitely
a bigger saw a bigger unit than the 220 and the MSA 300 weighs in at 5.4 kilograms compared to
3.1 kilograms that's without the battery so by the time you put the AP 300 or the AP 500 in this one
and it's going to increase the weight again but as a more sort of standard sort of equivalent petrol
weighted saw mc20 definitely comes out on top there but the MSA 300 has a lot more features one
being a proper anti-vibration system so if you are using it for long periods you're definitely going
to notice a difference with the 300 although Battery Source don't have the vibration like
petrol saws do but obviously things are still going round there's still vibration there to be
able to you know give you white finger and things over a long period so obviously big
vibration system on here that's a big part of this saw it's also got on this side a very different
chain tensioner so the MSA 220 as the previous model did has a tool-less chain tensioner yes
just a little wheel there you can turn and tighten it up whereas the 300 has a proper
proper Two Nuts and a proper chain tensioner captive nuts as well may I say because my
personal opinion I prefer this it's been around for however long chainsaws have been around for
it works it's solid it doesn't have any issues not saying that this has issues I just prefer
that this is great to be fair when we do videos where we've got like 10 swords to put together
in one video and here feel like going to be oh no I've got 10 saws to assemble and PDI these are an
absolute Lifesaver because that takes longer but that is more secure and I think the longevity of
it is a lot better and less to go wrong less to go wrong less moving Parts on the back end of the
source we have not a lot you just got your trigger on the back of the 220 whereas on the 300 you have
got a proper cockpit style break on battery in turn that on you've got your cockpit lights you've
got everything there to be able to show you what's going on with the saw you can change your speeds
you can turn it on and off everything's there it does work also sort of Deadmau5 handle after a few
seconds of not using it you've then got to press that button again to get this button to flash
green and then pull that back so it tells you your break is on whereas this one is all a little bit
more manual on the other end of the saw we have got the oil and it the one thing that these two
saws do share is the oil caps exactly the same oil caps but on the new 220 and I really like this
you've got a very visible oil reservoir so the whole sort of part of the crank case is now sort
of see-through so you can see right into the oil tank from sort of any level and the most important
thing about a battery saw is remembering to fill it up with oil because with a petrol saw every
time you fill it up with petrol you fill it up with oil and generally a saw will use two-thirds
oil to one tank of petrol so you need to do it every time her battery saw directly you think you
just do that when you change the battery but it's not you know you can and your oil go together with
petrol so they're more visible the oil reservoir the better so yeah definitely like that the MSA
300 as you can see has got a bigger bar 18 in or up to 18 inch on the 300 up to 14 inch on the 220
and the chain speed of the 220 is 24 meters per second maximum can't change it the 300 is also
24 meters per second but you can put up into high speed so you can do 30 meters per second so yes
it will cut a lot lot faster but you can also put that down to 20 if you don't want full power and
you've just got a few basic jobs to do or you want your battery to last longer and it's not
all about speed because not everything's about speed but we'll see how they perform later on
because we'll put that on in 24 meters per second so in the middle mode and that one 24 meters per
second and see how they get on see if they're the same but then we'll put down 30 meters per second
and it should go but we'll find out so yeah big differences but yeah size wise Weight Wise but
there are lots of different features right let's grab a little baby saw and see what's different
between that and this so it does seem to be one of those days where it's all about size because
now the 220 looks huge compared to the 120 and the 120 was I think was was the first battery saw that
still came out with is their smallest domestic chainsaw just for home use around the garden doing
a bit of pruning maybe the odd log or two but mainly just real basic tasks whereas the 220 has
been brought out for Farmers land owners possible council local authorities things like that more
sort of basic not so frequent tasks but ones that sort of live in the back of a vehicle and they get
used when they need to get used whereas the 300 we looked at just now is more professional so people
are using them every day for tasks it could be for a fencing contractor it could be for someone doing
hedge laying it could be doing for someone who's a carpentry or like you know big framed or Oak
frame buildings people are using them in more professional settings not necessarily someone
who's going to be going into a wood or a forest or however you want to describe it all day long
and going I need 50 batteries to do a day's work to be fair I don't think they're quite there yet
with it but who knows what's to come in the future so stay tuned stay tuned but anyway the MSA 120 is
a little baby saw main difference other than size obviously Weight Wise going to be very different
different again because this is just there's no weight to this at all to be
fair I think if there's any lighter it would be dangerous could you just use it one-handed now
main difference two different styles of batteries still have many different Battery Systems this is
a p so this is sort of the more professional style of battery so if you've got sort of more
of an oblong or rectangle battery that's in their sort of bigger range more professional
range of products whereas the AK range sort of more square of a battery depends how you want
to do a square but we'll call it square for the time being the AK range of batteries this
is an ak-20 goes in a domestic products where they've got only 14 different products in the
range streamers small lawn mowers uh Long Reach hedge trimmers things like that just real basic
normal main Garden maintenance equipment lovely little range great little product and again on
here we have quick chain tensioner on here it's very very similar design to be quite honestly
they've kept that very similar right across a range of tallest chain tensioners is fairly
robust it can't really go wrong again yes I do prefer my nuts but on the small domestic soils
it makes a lot of sense because people who do don't use them very often use tools very often
this makes it a lot easier for them to be able to tension the chain properly because what is a
slack chain yeah it's a dangerous chain so there we are little baby saw mid-range saw I think I've
done enough waffling you've probably heard enough I think it's time to go out and give them a go and
see what the cutting performance is like and how different they are right let's crack on right I've
got this massive great big piece of 12-inch Oak and I'm going to try and tackle it with a 12 inch
120. too fat I don't think it's going to do it but we'll give it a go just to see what's going on and
then we'll try the other two saws in 24 meters per second and then put against the 300 at 30 meters
per second to see what the difference is right this one first let's do it here it goes right
all right
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but yeah I had to baby that through to get it through right let's try the 220
ms220c with the ap300s battery let's see how quick this one is
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a lot quicker than the 120 anyway let's try the 300 in 24 meters per second in the middle
setting MSA 300 with ap 500 battery 500s battery in Middle setting turn on middle
settings so it should be 24 meters per second let's do it see this any quicker than that one
a definite difference nothing 24 meters per second right let's try this one now
in 30 meters per second trying to hit the tripod this Sunday um and
that is some weapon wow right let's do another one 30 meters per second
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220 again
I love it it's great all right turn square up this log a bit actually
pull under a bit of pressure oh no see it's sold out
if you put it on the bit of pressure it does stall now it's already a bit of
pressure there we go it comes out comes back out of the wood starts right back up again
like I say that new trigger system on the side once you press the side button
and then you've got your triggers that makes such a difference because like I said before
it feels so much more like a petrol saw oh I love it one more cut on this one
oh wow
nice that is nice I like it just for Walters and Giggles we'll put this down to the lowest
speed which is 20 meters per second oh I better not later this is the lowest speed
now middle speed so now that's 20 meters back and this is 24 meters per second
and now 30 meters per second
you can certainly tell the difference hey right love it oh nice right bearing in mind
this is Oak it is a hard wood it's not just some soft wood so you think if that was in
softwood how quick that'll be going through as well nice I love that right I'm just too
happy here I'm too happy here I want to do another one with the MSA 220 MSA 220 right
all right oh do you know what that is the perfect hedgeling saw absolutely perfect I really like
that really like that the weight's right the power seems right much better now with the new
chain and bar on visible oil tank on it it's just it's nice it's really nice be interesting
to see how many how much you'd get out of one so we might do another video where we test to
see how many cups you got out of this actually why did I go hedgeling that's a card here anyway
I think hopefully this video has shown you what the difference is between still smaller saw the
bigger saw and the latest or the MSA 220c because it's always nice to see what different Souls can
do especially in the battery ranges everyone's still new to it everyone's still learning all
about it and what's going on should be fair I'm really surprised to see the differences between
each saw Josh has already used this saw in another video where he compared this saw against a load
of other 14-inch chainsaws on the market and this one done pretty well so it's definitely
worth watching that the link is at the end in just a second so anyway please like share and
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