Black+Decker CS1216 vs Oregon CS1400
Tinted cells mark the better figure on that row alone: more engine, longer bar, lighter, cheaper. A lighter weight is only a win on the same basis.
What owners like and complain about
Black+Decker CS1216
- 13.2 lb listed makes it the lighter of B+D's two big corded saws
- Cheapest 16-inch saw still in production here — only a discontinued Greenworks corded undercuts it
- Automatic oiler and tool-free chain tensioning
- No fuel, no battery, no seasonal maintenance at all
- 2-year warranty handled directly by B+D
- .043-gauge, 56-link chain is the narrow-kerf loop most stores do not stock — the pricier CS1518 uses the common .050
- 12 amps is the least motor of any 16-inch saw here; it stalls in dense hardwood
- B+D publishes neither pitch nor gauge on the product page
- Plastic throughout, with no serviceable path past the chain and bar
- Still tethered to a 12-gauge extension cord
Oregon CS1400
- Runs commodity Oregon 91PXL — cheap, stocked everywhere, no proprietary sharpening kit
- 15 amps, the same motor rating as the pricier CS1500
- Made by the company that supplies bars and chains to most of the industry
- $20 under the CS1500 and about $10 under Oregon's 12-amp CS1200
- Trigger start, no fuel, no winterizing
- No PowerSharp — you sharpen it yourself or pay a shop, which is the CS1500's whole reason to exist
- Oregon's only published weight includes packaging, so the real carry weight is unstated
- Oregon does not sell it direct; price and stock live at Tractor Supply, Acme and Home Depot
- 2-year warranty, a year short of Worx's corded saw
- Corded, so a 12-gauge extension cord sets the work radius