Harbor Freight Or Home Depot: Which Brand's Chainsaw Is Right For You

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If you're thinking about buying a chainsaw, you have a mind-boggling variety to choose from. There are corded, cordless, and gasoline-powered models in a wide range of sizes, so picking the right chainsaw for firewood, yard work, and gardening is far from easy. Browsing your favorite store, whether online or in real life, can give you some valuable information, and both Harbor Freight and Home Depot have a range of chainsaws that could fit the bill. Which brand has the model that's right for you, though?

Harbor Freight is well known for competitively priced tools and equipment. They sell chainsaws in all three power formats (electric, battery, and gas), with bar lengths (blade sizes) from 10 inches to 18 inches. Given that 14 to 20 inches is the ideal size for the average homeowner, Harbor Freight will have a lot of people covered.

Unlike Harbor Freight, Home Depot doesn't focus on its own brand tools. As a result, they sell a far greater selection of chainsaws. Hundreds of them, in fact. These range from the kind of low-cost 14-inch electric model that competes with Harbor Freight to large, heavy-duty chainsaws for professionals.

If you're a fan of Harbor Freight's budget-friendly brands and you have a small- to medium-sized yard, then they might well have the right chainsaw for you. However, while Home Depot may not be cheaper, it does offer more choices. Let's look at the options in more detail.

Harbor Freight's entry-level Portland 9-amp chainsaw costs just $49.99. For those with occasional needs and modest-sized trees, it's an easy-to-use tool. At the other end of the scale, their Atlas 80V cordless chainsaw seems particularly good value for a tool of that power at $149.99. Although adding the necessary battery and charger will more than double the price, it is still rated as one of the best budget chainsaws money can buy.

Home Depot chainsaws range from an affordable WEN electric model at $64.99 to a massive commercial-grade Echo model with a 32-inch bar and a $1389.99 price tag. That brand is rated among the best chainsaws of 2025, according to Consumer Reports, and other big names like DeWalt, Milwaukee, Ryobi, and Troy-Bilt are also available from Home Depot.

Harbor Freight's chainsaws consistently get high ratings from satisfied customers, and their prices are hard to beat. Their tools will definitely appeal to people who need to deal with tree pruning and cutting out dead branches from time to time. The range is a bit limited, though, with just a handful of chainsaws in all. Home Depot has the advantage when it comes to choice, and particularly with more powerful chainsaws for farm, ranch, and forestry use. If you use one regularly, they will almost certainly have the chainsaw that's right for you.