Angle grinder chainsaw - video

**Jon** · Nov 13, 2025, 03:46 PM

Angle grinder chainsaw. By NVD - DIY Tools. 14:12 video:

**metric_taper** · Nov 14, 2025, 08:41 AM

OK, you have a right angle grinder, and a spare chainsaw blade and chain, to modify this tool required way too many other game changing tools besides a hammer and screw driver. For $30 a mains AC powered chainsaw can be had from any big box store. And it's purpose built with the right gear ratios for wood cutting speeds of the chain.
Sure, home built is because either you are remote, frugal, or it's a one off, and no one makes the tool, or cost prohibited, but this is, "lets make a video" of making something you can buy that will work better if purpose designed, and not hacked from what the tool was for. Such clever humans.
What I have done, is take a 20" chainsaw blade, modify it to fit on a 9" pole saw from harbor freight, and cut big limbs off overhead branches, and run fast to live and tell.

**bruce.desertrat** · Nov 14, 2025, 08:50 AM

Clever, I suppose, but this is spending a lot of time, materials and effort to turn a $40 angle grinder into a $50 electric chainsaw...using parts from the $50 electric chainsaw....

**bruce.desertrat** · Nov 14, 2025, 08:52 AM

Originally Posted by metric_taper

Such clever humans.
What I have done, is take a 20" chainsaw blade, modify it to fit on a 9" pole saw from harbor freight, and cut big limbs off overhead branches, and run fast to live and tell.

Been there, done that (although it was just the stock HF pole saw) got smacked by the 3" mesquite branch...

**metric_taper** · Nov 14, 2025, 09:13 AM

Your link comes up at $40 with my membership. I got two 14" chainsaws from Aldi's grocery store on clearance about 10 years ago, for $15 each (they were $30, but Menards, Sears). I got two as the Crapsman burned up as they are not duty cycle rated for cutting up fire wood. Great for branch cutting.
So I learned with the HF pole saw (it was $90 the last time I looked) can take a bigger blade. We had some humongous wind damage Aug 20, 2020, I worked from the roof of the garage to clear away the remains of a topped out Oak tree. All the one star reviews of that pole saw complained of gear damage or motor burnout, but it's cause you can't pinch them ever, electrics will burn right out, or destroy the gears. It's still alive and well, wishing the pole was longer to reach some neighbor branches leaning over my sheds.

I babied the cuts and saved myself the $13K the fly by night tree cutting companies that migrated from Missouri and Arkansas to Iowa. I'm a true self guy, and did the work myself. It only cost me and extra $250 to fix the window I broke on the garage from a limb that was swinging from a rope. I did burn up 3 Oregon brand 18" electric chainsaws cutting the 32" trunk down to the ground a piece at a time, I built a scaffold around the 22 foot main trunk as there was no way to drop it. That $13K was to bring in a huge crane and lift it over a garage with more then a 120 foot cantilever reach. No way would I trust anyone to lift it over a two story building. If they crunched it, sure insurance would cover it, but building codes preclude rebuild, as sq. ft. is limited now,
Crazy I can put as many 1150sqft garages on my property with zero fire clearance per the code, but the reason was so the fire department would never fight a garage fire bigger then 1150 sqft. I tell you, when the county supervisors all agree on some ordinance, do not not think this through. There used to be a limit on how many sqft the land could be consumed, now, I can't build in front of the house, but I can fill the lot behind.
I guess if your governance is ran by winning a personality of lies and damn lies contest, you get the intelligence the oligarchy wants for their control of the puppet gov. Most building codes restrictions I see are for the betterment of money. By making bribes (campaign donations) by developers and construction trades to produce prohibited rules for DIY.

**Haroun** · Nov 14, 2025, 09:57 AM

I didn't even get to the objection of the time cost of frankverting 2 exceedingly mismatched tools. I came on here to object to the posting of an obviously dangerous set machine lacking in any safety features, excepting the laughable "kick-back guard" on it. This is a very complicated way to get very badly hurt.