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The storm passes, the tree is down across the back fence, and the firewood pile is still a stack of rounds nobody has split. You need a saw that starts, cuts, and keeps cutting — and you need it without spending the price of a pro saw you will use six weekends a year.
Vevor’s 62cc gas chainsaw is the $115.90 answer to that Saturday: a 20-inch bar, 3.8 horsepower, and cutting power owners compare favorably with saws costing three times as much. It is also the most polarised tool in this review program. The same listing that earns “this thing is a beast” also carries owners whose saws would not start, leaked fuel and bar oil, or snapped a pull rope. Buy it for hardwood and firewood, with your eyes open — and test the starting and the seals in the first week, while a return is still simple.
It suits a homeowner cutting firewood, clearing storm damage, and trimming trees on their own land, who can mix fuel, tension a chain, and follow a manual. It is not a saw for a first-timer working alone, and it is not a saw for overhead cutting or a job that cannot wait for a balky start. If you have never run a gas saw, the right first step is a lesson and the right safety gear, not a bargain.
What you are actually buying
The saw is a 62cc two-stroke with a 20-inch guide bar and a maximum cutting diameter of 18 inches. The engine makes 3.8 horsepower and runs up to 12,000 RPM, and it does not bog down in dense hardwood the way a smaller homeowner saw does. Owners name black locust, red oak, and maple by name, and multi-cord firewood sessions without the saw slowing. The chain runs 76 drive links at a 0.325-inch pitch. The body is a glass-fiber composite Vevor calls impact- and heat-resistant, which is a claim about the housing, not a promise about everything bolted to it.
The tanks are sized for a session, not a day: 550 milliliters of fuel and 260 milliliters of chain oil, on a 40:1 fuel-to-oil mix. Chain tension adjusts with a side-mounted screw — loosen the bar nuts, turn the screw, re-tighten — a thirty-second job once you have done it twice, and the single most important habit on any saw. The box holds the bar, chain, and bar cover, a mixing bottle and funnel, wrenches, a file, a screwdriver, earplugs, and the manual. Earplugs are in the box. Chaps are not. Budget for them before the first cut.
Vevor’s starting system — choke switch, a dedicated start switch, and an extended pull rope — is called Easy Start, and for many owners it lives up to the name: second- and third-pull starts, easy cold and hot starts, simple chain installation. For a real minority it does not start at all, and that minority is loud enough to plan around. This site’s overview of Vevor lawn and garden tools describes the same split across the whole range: strong value, uneven luck. A chainsaw is the wrong tool to buy on luck alone.
The polarised record, stated plainly
Start with the power, because it is real. Owners cut storm-felled trees and stack firewood for hours, and several compare this saw favorably with named pro-brand saws they also own. Those are owner comparisons, not a laboratory verdict, but they recur too often to dismiss: the engine pulls hard, the 20-inch bar reaches across rounds a smaller saw would have to cut from both sides, and the price — $115.90 — frames every one of those reports. Owners buy second units for relatives. That does not happen with a saw nobody trusts.
Now the other half. Starting and running failures are the largest negative signal in the owner record: saws that would not start, saws that would not stay running, flooding and fuel smell after two pulls, carburetor trouble within a few tanks, a fuel filter coming off its line, an air filter plugging. The manual’s troubleshooting table names the same failure modes — fuel, procedure, a fouled plug, a clogged filter — which means the fixes are ordinary saw maintenance, not mysteries. Ordinary maintenance still leaves you holding a saw that will not run on the morning you need it, and that is the risk you are pricing in at $115.90.
Leaks are the second signal, and they sit in direct tension with the listing’s leak-proof body claim. One owner, in a review on Vevor’s site, wrote: “I was amazed with the price and the saw worked well but the oil ran out on my floor when I finished. Ran the saw for 15 minutes and all the remaining bar oil ran out.” Fuel-management mentions on the retail listing run seven negative to none positive — fuel leaking, gas lost, bar oil emptying after use. Check the seals on day one. Run the saw, set it down on cardboard, and look. A saw that marks its spot on your garage floor in the first week is telling you something worth hearing.
The pull rope is the third. Owners describe the rope breaking easily, coming off, and wearing a groove in the plastic it rubs against, with one owner replacing the rope three times. The chain draws the same kind of minority complaint — described as cheap, teeth snapping, stretching — and replacement-chain availability worried at least one owner, although Vevor does sell a replacement bar-and-chain set for this saw. Weight comes up too: owners call the saw heavy for prolonged or overhead use, and the small fuel and oil plugs and the small tension screw are fiddly with the supplied screwdriver. None of these is a deal-breaker on its own. Together they describe a saw built to a price, with the price showing in the small parts first.
Support splits the same way. Some owners got a replacement for a defective unit. Others describe slow replies, no solution, or no response at all to a leak report. Treat support as a coin flip, not a safety net, and buy from a seller whose return window you trust. The review count tells the same divided story: around 4,000 reviews at 4.0 out of 5 on the older listing, a pool shared across the chainsaw family rather than reviews of this one saw alone. Deep, but divided. A 4.0 average with this much passion on both sides is not a shrug — it is a saw that rewards a careful owner and punishes a careless purchase.
Before the first pull
Chainsaw safety is not a paragraph to skim. Chaps, eye protection, and ear protection every time — no exceptions, no quick cuts. Keep the chain sharp and correctly tensioned, check the oil flow before cutting, and never cut alone, overhead, or with the tip of the bar. Kickback kills, and it kills experienced cutters who got comfortable. Read the manual first, all of it, including the starting procedure and the chain-brake notes. The saw carries an emergency stop lever that shuts the engine down at a press, a guard design that blocks flying chips and debris, and a non-slip handle. Those features help. They do not replace judgment, and they do not replace chaps.
Do the first-week test properly. Mix the fuel exactly 40:1, fill both tanks, and start the saw cold — then again hot, then again the next morning. Cut a few rounds, set the saw down, and check for leaks. Tension the chain, run it, and tension it again. If it starts clean, holds its oil, and cuts straight, you have the saw most owners describe. If it floods, leaks, or will not stay running, you have the saw the minority describes, and the first week is when to act on it. A saw is not a sweater. You do not keep a bad one out of politeness.
Here is how the work actually breaks down, job by job.
| Job | How it handles it | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|
| Firewood rounds | The home turf — 18-inch cut, steady power in hardwood | Chain tension and oil flow, checked every session |
| Storm cleanup | Strong on downed limbs and trunks, fast to get cutting | Starting after storage; test before the storm, not during it |
| Trimming trees | Fine from the ground on low limbs | Weight overhead; never cut above shoulder height |
| Big-tree felling | Capable on medium trees within the bar’s reach | A job for training and a second person, not a first saw |
A Saturday with the saw looks like this: rounds stacked, fuel mixed, chain checked, chaps on. The first cuts go fast — the bar reaches across an 18-inch round in one pass, and the pile shrinks while the morning is still cool. Refuel and re-tension at midday, check the oil, and keep cutting. By afternoon the rounds are firewood lengths, ready for the splitter, and the saw goes back in the garage with the chain oiled and the tanks noted. That is the day most owners describe. The other day — the one with the pull rope in your hand and fuel on the floor — is the day the first-week test is meant to prevent. For the firewood half of that Saturday, this site’s 420cc chipper review covers the branch pile the saw leaves behind, and the Vevor vs the Big-Box Brands comparison puts the $115.90 price in context.
VEVOR 62cc Gas Chainsaw, 20-Inch Bar (3.8 HP)
Real hardwood power for $115.90, with a starting and leak record you must test in week one.
Who should buy it
Buy it if you cut firewood or clear storm damage regularly, you can mix fuel and maintain a chain without a YouTube video open, and you will run the first-week test honestly. At $115.90, the power per dollar is the best in this review program, and a saw that starts and seals is a saw you will keep for years.
Do not buy it as a first saw, for a single tree, or for a job that starts tomorrow morning with no room for a balky start. Hire the tree work, borrow a known-good saw, or spend more on a saw with a dealer behind it. And never buy any chainsaw without chaps in the same order. The saw is $115.90. The gear that keeps you whole is not optional, and it is not where the savings go.
