DEWALT FLEXVOLT 60V MAX* Chainsaw Kit, 3-Ah Battery, 16-Inch (DCCS670X1)

Fantastic saw for the money! Only drawback...no case. After contacting DeWalt they don’t offer nor will offer a case anytime soon. I did some research and found a gent who found a case that will hold this saw almost like a glove! I’ve attached my photos with the Amazon part number for reference. Gave it only 4 stars for the missing case. Hope this helps!

Do yourself a favor and search reviews for “washer” and you will see similar issues. I would not recommend buying this saw until they address the issue. Had used it in light to medium duty and was only on my second battery, when it made a noise that initially made me think I had hit a nail. Looked at the chain and noticed it was starting to jump the bar near the front of the saw. Pulled off the cover and found that the small retaining bolt had likely backed off and the cheap little washer they use to retain the chain to the sprocket had moved off center and there was a gap which allowed the chain to move out of alignment and slip off / gouge the end of the sprocket. I took it to the Dewalt repair center who said they would try and have it repaired in a week or so, but I told them if they did not have a repair to correct the design issue I would fully expect to have the same issue over and over again.The following are flaws I see with the current design:#1 - The choice of retaining bolt as opposed to something like drilled shaft with castellated nut/ cotter key or some other “long term” design. This area of the saw is crucial as it takes the highest loads between the motor and the chain. Seems like an area that skimping on design and parts would be avoided. On a side note, anyone hoping to keep the bolt from backing off or do a repair on their own will have a challenge unless they make a tool to retain the sprocket from spinning to allow you to torque the nut. There would be some redeeming points if when they decided to go with the current design they also added a quick push button sprocket brake and require owners to periodically (every 3-4 hours of use!) verify the bolt is torqued.# 2 - The choice of washer is somewhat baffling. They used a washer that is very thin considering it’s use and has an inner hole diameter that is far too oversized for the little bolt it is used with. Again poor overall design, but at least if they are going to use bolt washer in the area use one that is up for the task and fits properly.#3 - The chain tensioner and cover are not that impressive and require regular checking.Now for the good....All the above should be fairly easy fixes for Dewalt and would make for an excellent saw that has the potential to absolutely replace the gas saw. A couple of great pluses for battery power in general are the fact that they are quiet... This lead me to quickly come to the conclusion that I would no longer need to lug around the added weight of the ear muffs on my hard hat / head. That is also comes into play much more when you are felling trees and you let go of the power trigger, all you hear is the tree, no idle, no ear muffs to hear over which makes for safer operation.The power and weight ratio are good and the 60 volt flex batteries are great. Like the fact that you just need to carry some oil and maybe some sharpening tools / spare chain. You would be hard pressed to justify the cost savings for the batteries as opposed to using gas, unless you use it a ton, but flex volt the ability to use on multiple tools may push it over the edge especially when combined with the bonus storage space for the mix oil / gas cans.

I bought this chainsaw from jbtools. I used it 3 times then sparks started shooting out of the motor. I contacted amazon and was told to send it back. I did and received half of my money back from jbtools. If I had of know that I would only get half my money back I would never of sent it back, then I would have an extra battery, chain and bar. this thing has a 3 year limited warranty so I must assume jbtools sent it to dewalt and got a new one. I will not buy anything from jbtools again. Amazon really disappointed me on this one. I sold my gas chainsaw and now I don't have one at all.

Wow. So far, so good.First, the oil leakage people have talked about:a) It seems you can prevent almost all oil leakage whenever you're not using it, by storing the saw with the fill cap facing up. I made a bracket on the wall of my shop that holds the saw exactly this way. Still, it makes no sense to lose oil through the filler cap while using the saw. The oil is there to lube the blade, not leak out the filler cap.b) I noticed that the filler cap has an indentation indicating it was designed and molded to have an O-ring installed, but there was no O-ring there, just the half round groove for one. So I went to my LHS (Local Hardware Store) which happens to be a really awesome shop for genuine builders/repairers/tinkerers, and not just a generic hardware shop. They have a huge selection of O-rings. I bought three, tried two, and settled on one. As far as I can tell, it totally stops any undue oil leakage from the cap.c) As far as leaking during storage, there seems to also be no issue. I had the saw stored, oil reservoir totally full, cap facing up, for over a month on the wall of my shop, and no mess/no loss. The cap and cap area also seems to now stay dry from oil during use as well, with the saw being rotated every which way to make cuts.Next, oil consumption:The blade uses oil. That's how chainsaws work. I don't have any real way to judge whether the oil use is more than it "should" be, but it's substantial. It seems that a full battery could easily outlast a full oil reservoir, maybe it would even outlast two fillings? That said, a full battery will do a lot of work, and the blade seemed to stay in great condition, so I have no real complaints. If you're going to do a lot of work with the saw, order some chain oil for backup.Oh, also, I was worried that maybe DeWalt had abandoned their O-ring on the oil filler cap in order to provide airflow for the reservoir, and that adding the O-ring might restrict consumption, but I needn't have worried. Still lubricates the chain and bar aggressively.Using the saw:I LOVED using this saw.I used gloves, safety glasses, and ear protection. It's not loud for a chainsaw AT ALL, which is a huge advantage in my urban Seattle neighborhood, but it's still louder when cutting than I wanted to be experiencing with ears unprotected. I strongly recommend ear protection for nearly all power tools. Did you know that you can't actually FEEL permanent hearing damage happening? So if you only wear hearing protection when loud sounds become physically uncomfortable or when they feel like they hurt, you are only using hearing protection when you're already WAY beyond the threshold for permanent hearing loss. The safety kickback cutoff works well, and can be used as an additional layer of safety if you turn it off purposefully when setting the saw down. The fact that an electric saw makes virtually no smell (I smelled a little oil occasionally from the chain bar) and becomes silent the moment you're done cutting is a total delight.I used the saw on a ladder to methodically take down a dying cherry tree between my house and my neighbor's house, and then cut up the main trunk and branches. (Don't worry, I know what I'm doing and didn't take any outrageous risks on the ladder. I grew up in Alaska, and had jobs requiring professional chainsaw use from teen years through college). The cherry tree trunk was about 10" at the base. I had cut a little bit of the canopy down with a tree handsaw a few weeks before I got this DeWalt saw, but given that I was only "one light down" on the battery, I'm pretty convinced I could have easily done the entire job with one battery charge, and had power left over.The chain and bar:The 16" Oregon chain bar and chain cut quite convincingly, but they have a light build and a narrow kerf (kerf is a term for the width of the material that any kind of saw removes entirely when cutting). A narrow kerf blade removing less wood allows a battery to last longer and do more cutting, but it also means the saw is a slightly more delicate tool than some of its gas equivalents.How to use it:If you understand good chainsaw technique, know how trees and logs behave when being cut, and don't ever make a cut that will pinch or torque the blade, you should be able to enjoy really good cutting, and get a lot from the saw without hurting it. It's also important to keep the oil reservoir oiled, of course, and keep blade tension reasonable. I loved that it was easy to pull off the drive housing and used the technique of blowing with compressed air while sucking with a shop vac to get the oily chips and debris out before I stored it back on the wall.I think it's important to understand that you'll run into trouble if you want to use the saw indiscriminately. There is a LOT of bad chainsaw technique you can get into if you think that a chainsaw should cut anything in any position under any stress or weight. Most of it is bad for the saw, and some of it is dangerous for the user. Go slow, and learn from an expert if you possibly can.

Many reviewers stated they received the 9 amp hour battery with their purchase, when the description said the saw comes with a 3 amp hour battery. The details of the battery can be confusing to some... The largest dewalt 60v battery currently available (to my knowledge) is rated at 3 ah at 60v, and rated at 9 ah at 20v. So, the Amazon description is correct, and no one has been mistakenly sent a higher capacity battery. The included battery is their biggest one available.

I have more than 50 DeWalt battery power tools including many in the Flexvolt line. I love them and use them every day. But for this chainsaw, I had an unfortunate accident. While cutting a difficult tree that had split during an ice/snow storm earlier and that was very menacing, I had to jump for my life as the tree cracked and fell prematurely as I was cutting about 10 feet in the air (the only way to do this job since it was near other big trees and the bottom part of the tree was rotten and hollow). Don't do this, I am an experienced feller with more than 25 years felling trees and I own many professional gas chainsaws and have and use all necessary gear and protection equipment. To make a long story short, I had to make a split second decision and throw away the saw and jump for my life, litterally. I made it unharmed but the top 40 feet part of a 50 feet tree fell 10 feet down right smack on the chainsaw that I had just thrown down (not far away enough obviously)... Needless to say that the chainsaw was completly destroyed by the heavy maple tree. I was very sad to have lost my new Flexvolt chainsaw but relieved to be ok. It gave me a good chance to see how well the inside of the saw is made as the case was split opened. :o)UPDATE 2018-04-20 :Believe it or not, I emailed DeWalt, explained my story and showed them this review. They asked me for photos of the destroyed saw and I send them about 10 of different angles and..........they sent me a new chainsaw, free of charge two weeks later. Is that great service or what ? It makes me proud to have invested so much money in a company that treats its customers like real human beings.The next weekend, I took the saw and cut about 12 trees of 6 inches diameter and cut them into logs, all with the same battery charge. I cut another tree of 12 inch and cleaned it and still had a bar left. Like many say, it's about the same runtime as a tank of gas. It's about the same power as a good little gas chainsaw like a Husqvarna 435 or a Stihl MS180.This saw has many advantages :- Cuts very well (better than I tought it would for a battery chainsaw)- No yanking on the cord to get it started, it's always ready- No running at idle, it's quieter, it's safer because it's always off until you press that button- It is SILENT (compared to a gas chainsaw), about the same noise as a big electric drill- It is so silent that you can cut at 7:00 in the morning or at meal time and not piss-off the neighbors- No need for 2-stoke gas mixing and handling and filling up and smelling- The chain speed is not as fast as a gas chainsaw but has more torque- With a sharp chain, it cuts great, the trick is not to force it and let the saw do the hardwork- A lot less maintenance, no sparkplug change, no air filter and carburator to clean- The weight and balance of the saw with the 9.0Ah battery is just right, very confortable- It's more convenient to transport because you don't have to bring gas in your car (smells bad and dangerous)- It has great DeWalt black and yellow colors ! ;o)The bad :- The thumb operated safety switch is akward and very stiff (I wish it would be a palm activated one like on normal gas chainsaws)- The 9.0 Flexvolt takes about 2-2.5 hours to charge so you must have 3 batteries at hand for a good all-day work. I don't understand why DeWalt includes only a DCB115 charger in this kit and not a DCB118 like in most other Flexvolt kits.- It does take a lot of chain oil so you have to fill the oil about 2-3 times in the charge of a battery. A good thing there is a convenient sight window for the oil level.- The cap of the oil reservoir is a soft plastic and seem flimsy but it works ok once there is oil in (it's the same as all the other DeWalt chainsaws)- The body is a little longer than a normal saw so it might bother you. I hope that DeWalt will soon sell a case for it.The verdict :The good of this saw outweighs the bad. It like that it is silent SO much. The trick is to keep your chain sharp and let the saw do the work. I like it as much as it's little brother, the DeWalt 20v 12 inch chainsaw.UPDATE 2018-11-09 :After having used the chainsaw for spring, summer and fall, I have 2 problems with it now :- The holding mecanism of the bar is too weak and flimsy. You just cannot put enough torque on the only bolt holding everything since is has plastic parts. For very simple straight in-line up to down cuts this is ok but for more difficult cuts at an angle, the bar tends to pry and crook and disadjust easy and sometimes even throws the chain off. Never had this problem with a metal holding mecanism on gas chainsaws. You have to cut as close to the saw as possible. Forget about doing plunge cuts with this thing.- The oiler has a tendency to stop oiling frequently and then everything heats up and the saw cuts badly. There is only a small oil dripping hole that has a tendency to block and also the oil reservoir has to be at least 3/4 full when you start because the plastic filter inside seems to float and not siphon any oil. I will try changing it for a metal one that will sink to the bottom to help the oil feed.Verdict 2 : I still like the saw but I am disapointed because these issues could have been easily corrected before launching the saw on the market. It is as if nerd engineers thought of this in a sealed lab and never put it in the hands of real people to test it in the field.For these 3 reasons, I retract two star because they are major reasons. I will update later.P.S. : I hope that DeWalt would engineer a solution to this by making a new blade cover made out of a stiffer plastic and with metal holding parts. They could give it away with proof of the saw purchase or sell it cheap (less than 50$). The saw is silent, convenient and powerful except for the holding flaw that could probably easily be fixed. They could even do a package deal for this saw : a carrying case made especially for this saw, the new improved holding cover and a metal oil filter that would sink to the bottom of the tank to never run out of oil. it would solve everything.UPDATE 2019-05-30 :The metal filter I tried in the oil tank did NOTHING to help bette siphon the oil. I resigned and went to a DeWalt service center about 30 km from my house and explained the problem. The guy was cool and tried it and verified that it did not work. He asked me : what weight of oil are you using ? (Because there are 3 weights of oil : heavy, light and medium) I told him that I used the light oil as in all my gas chainsaws. I added that if the DeWalt could not siphon the light oil, it could certainly not siphon the heavy oil. He said to me : Try with the heaviest oil and if it doesn't work, I'll exchange it with a reconditionned exact same saw. I had nothing to loose so I went home and tried it. Guess what ? Problem solved ! It worked perfectly just as it should. Just to be sure, I cut 3 medium size trees on 3 different weekends and went through about 10 tank of oil. Just to confirm it was that, at the fifth tank I tried again light oil and it didn't worked anymore. I emptied it and refilled with the heavy oil and it worked again. CONFIRMED !So I give back half a star because DeWalt mentions this NOWHERE in their manual. I don't even think they know. Shame on them. So 3.5 stars, rounded to 4... ;o)If they could only fix the last problem, the all plastic clamping mecanism, it would be an amazing saw.After 2 years (and the oil fix), the saw still works very well, is quiet and powerful.One final thing I don't understand is why is the paint on the DeWalt blade is still like new after about 50 trees cut and my 3 Husqvarnas, the paint went after 2 trees each ? Loll. Amazing paint DeWalt ! Wow !

Sorely disappointed. Use to say made in the USA but now I think they've sent them to China. I wish I'd read the reviews on Amazon.com, this thing leaks oil all over, cap secures the oil perfectly, rest of the machine doesn't, it leaks as seen in the pictures along the bottom line a even on top. Was looking so forward to having this as it worked great and the design was great but you can't even set it down without coming back with oil all over the ground, and using it and getting oil all over your hands.Was going to invest in some more batteries (the 9amp or 12amp) and other tools but I think maybe their quality control is on the back burner. I might have to start looking at other manufacturers, I don't want to be putting out money on bags and expensive batteries if their tools are going dollar store quality. It's too bad because I've been buying DeWalt for years and really liked their stuff.

Low noise, no 2 stroke smoke and no need to tote around gas cans. No issues with bar oil...have to fill it about the same amount of time the battery lasts (9ah). Easily takes down 12"-14" poplar/spruce...can easily cut a whole 40' tree (16") lengths on one charge (in sub zero temps). There are a few minor downsides. The safety trigger gets annoying after a couple hours of straight use. If you cut anything wet the side cover gets jammed up with pulp...has to be cleared often. Cover comes off easily with no tools...as does the oil cap. Does seem to require tension adjustment once in a while...which also requires no tools. I've been using it for a couple months and I'm totally satisfied!!!

WOMEN this is for us, finally! 12 lbs all in with battery, and chews powerfully & cleanly through everything quickly. Takes R56 chains, uses 11/64 file to sharpen at 30 degrees. DeWalt Canada was useless but Oregon customer support is faultless. This is an amazing combo! Forget Stihl or anyone else, man or woman, and sub in an 18" bar if you have to. Love it! I poop out far sooner than the battery or chain does, & the Stihl saws are rusting & lonely now. Home Depot said over a month, Amazon had it to me within a week.

Great product, I love how quiet it is, I do not need ear protection while operating.It cuts large trees and over 5 hours I've spent 2 batteries and half, which isn't much for the amount of work done.It came with a slightly faulty oil cap, this bar doesn't go all the way thru making it weak and was so tight in place that it almost broke on the first opening of the oil tank. I hope they'll send me another cap.I'd give it 5 stars if it wasn't for the oil cap, and would like some parts to be in metal instead of plastic.