"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Al Reynolds" writes:
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| I am beginning to wonder why they have all been discontinued. The
| Makita ones sometimes come up on ebay. Take a look at
| http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=3847884448
| for an auction for one of these finishing on Friday lunchtime.

At a guess, safety regulations. It is possible (even likely) that
the cordless ones escaped some regulations by an accident of wording,
and the loophole has been closed. Bringing them up to regulations
could well be too expensive, or make them unattractive to users.

This is possible. I know that the Makita was classified
as a cordless pruner rather than a chainsaw, so you didn't
need the same employee chainsaw certificate. See
http://www.fredshed.co.uk/makitacordlesschainsaw.htm
for a description.

Al