I've not touched my gas powered weedeater since getting the battery version, and I'm planning on adding a battery powered hedge trimmer and leaf blower this year. For the chainsaw, I'd like a battery one most of the time, but I occasionally have to cut ~12 inch (sometimes bigger) juniper, and I can't imagine a battery holding out for much of that. It's very hard wood, and goes through chains pretty fast. Pine and fir feels like balsa in comparison. I don't use the chainsaw enough to justify having two of them, so for now I'll stick with having to spend the first half hour or so just to get the darned thing started. I finally learned that using only no-ethanol gas helps a lot with the getting it to run dance.