One downside of Stihl, however, is that they only sell their products through licensed dealers; you can’t simply buy a Stihl chainsaw online or at a big-box home improvement center. Plus, their ...

More than 50 gas and electric models appear in our current ratings. Here are the top performers, which balance speed with easy handling and safety. In one part of Consumer Reports' chainsaw testing, ...

The priciest chainsaw in CR’s ratings costs 10 times more than the least expensive option. That’s a big difference between two tools that are designed to do basically the same thing. And those models ...