Corrections and questions
Two people keep this catalog running, and neither of them owns a test fleet. What ChainsawRanker is good at is holding 148 saws still next to each other long enough to compare them, which only works if the numbers are right. The 579 source links attached to those saws are there so you can check any figure without taking our word for it, and the quickest way to improve the site is to tell us when one of them does not hold up.
Powerhead, or powerhead with bar and chain?
Weights, mostly. A saw's weight can be the bare powerhead, the powerhead with bar and chain hung on it, or a battery saw carrying a named pack, and those three numbers can differ by four pounds on the same machine. If the basis printed on a detail page disagrees with the tag on the dealer's rack, that is worth an email.
After weights: successors. Stihl and Husqvarna refresh their homeowner lineups quietly, and the first anyone hears of it is usually a new model number sitting on the shelf beside the old one. Then chain pitch and gauge, because getting that wrong sends somebody home with a loop that will not fit the bar. Then bar ranges a dealer will not actually mount. Then the plain gaps: with 19 brands tracked, a saw we have never listed is the normal state of things, not an oversight worth apologizing for.
What happens to a correction
It arrives in two inboxes and both of us read it. For a spec change, a link to the manufacturer's product page or the operator's manual is worth more than anything else you can send: that URL gets added to the saw's source list, so the next reader can verify the correction the same way we did. Corrections that come with a source get applied quickly. Corrections without one turn into a search, and sometimes into nothing.
When a figure is not published anywhere we can point at, the field stays empty rather than getting a plausible number. That is why 120 of the 148 saws here carry no star rating at all: no single identifiable non-Amazon listing publishes one, and averaging scattered ratings into a tidy 4.3 would look more authoritative while being less true.
Two things this inbox cannot settle
No manufacturer or dealer pays to be listed, to be listed higher, or to have a complaint removed, and nobody here has been sent a saw. The site earns a commission when a reader buys through an Amazon link, and that is the whole of its income; it buys no manufacturer a kinder page. If you are writing to arrange any of that, the answer is no, and it will save us both a reply.
We also cannot tell you whether the leaner at the back of your property is safe to drop. That judgement belongs to somebody standing in front of the tree reading its lean, its rot and its hang-ups, and for anything with a house or a power line in the fall zone it belongs to a local arborist with insurance. What this site can do is tell you which saw is the right size once that decision is already made.
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