Adding A Torpedo Level To An Electric Chainsaw

For several years now I have been looking at 120 volt AC electric chainsaws to use when I am doing construction with round wood (specifically black locust and tulip poplar) because I often find gasoline chainsaws are bulky, noisy, heavy, hard to make square/plumb cuts with and requires fuel to boot. My compromise has often been to use a circular saw instead which works well enough with small diameter material but it leaves much to be desired for cutting larger diameter material.

Recently I found a pretty good deal on a refurbished electric chainsaw directly from the manufacturer and since I have been building a lot lately and trying to get a shelter completed before the winter I decided to purchase it and see how it performed. This article is by no means a review of the chainsaw itself but suffice it to say that I am absolutely happy with how it performs, it's overall construction, it's light weight design, it's ease of use and mostly it's ability to make precision cuts.

As soon as I pulled it out of the box that it was shipped in I realized that it would be incredibly handy if it had a torpedo level attached to it so that when I am cutting with it I can see if the chainsaw is being held plumb and level so that my cuts in turn come out plump/level. Fortunately the design of the chainsaw itself made attaching a torpedo level rather simple and after now using it for a few weeks I am very happy with the outcome and thought to share what I did here on Steemit.

This is how the chainsaw looks after installing the torpedo level.

This is the torpedo level that I used.

I held the torpedo level in place so that the part that extends below the handle acts as a 'leg' to make the chainsaw itself rest level when sitting on a flat surface.

I used some eight inch zip-ties to attach the torpedo level but smaller or larger ones would work as well.

This is how I attached the torpedo level to the side of the handle with the zip-ties. I later trimmed off the excess zip-tie material.

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